1930 Headline News

Gandhi leads peaceful marches in protest of British salt taxes.
Clyde W. Tombaugh, an American astronomer, discovers Pluto.
Haile Selassie becomes emperor of Ethiopia, unwittingly giving rise to Rastafarianism in Jamaica.
After a military coup, Getulio Vargas becomes president of Brazil.
In Bremen, the Nazi Party wins several elections.

The Turkish city of Contstantinople becomes Istanbul.


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