Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 5th - Collectivisation of all Soviet farms announced by Stalin
• February 15th - Professor W Scheffer explains the mysteries of his invention the Zip fastener
• February 18th - Planet Pluto discovered by US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh
• March 6th - Marchers clash with police on left wing marches for work on Tower Hill, London
• April 24th - Amy Johnson completed her solo flight from England to Australia
• April 26th The Week page by page
• May 5th - Gandhi arrested at Surat and conveyed to Poona,where he is being detained, as civil disobedience campaign spread in India
• June - In Australia the new Sydney Harbour Bridge is under construction with a 1,650 ft single span, 170ft above the water cost £8m
• June 13th - Major Henry Seagrave won the World motorboat speed record on Lake Windermere in Miss England at 98.76 mph but the boat overturned and he was killed
• June 22nd - Wimbledon begins, Bill Tilden and Helen Moody were the champions, men still played in long trousers
• June 30th - French troops left Rhineland, as agreed after First World War
• July 7th - Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes
• July 30th - First World Cup won by Uruguay in Montevideo
• August 7th - British unemployment exceeded 2 million as the depression deepened
• The Church of England gave cautious backing to birth control
• September 15th - Over 100 Reichstag seats gained by the Nazis in German election, from 6 people in 1919 to 6 million now
• October 5th - The world's biggest airship, the British R101, crashed Near Beauvais in France
• and was totally destroyed by fire, 48 people on board died
• The worlds tallest building The Empire State Building in New York is being built 1,222 ft high
• December - Unemployment in Britain had reached 2,500,000 and employers said wages must be cut!
• Germany unemployment was now 4,500,000 and the struggle between the Communists and the Nazis was intensifying
• Fascist Italy - Mussolini spoke about machine guns, war ships and rifles being very fine things
• Nylon was invented in the USA
• Marlene Deitrich became famous through her appearance in The Blue Angel
• Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence appeared as Amanda and Elyot in Private Lives which opened at the Phoenix Theatre, the comedy was written by Coward for Lawrence
• Donald Bradman (batsman) continued to astound cricket crowds with an aggregate of 974 runs in the England V Australia test series
• The Aga Khan's horse Blenheim won the Derby
• Another series proposal was examined (the first in the 1880s) to build a Channel Tunnel but was rejected again, mainly for defence reasons
• Thoughts were turning to planning a new London airport to replace cosy Croydon
• Frank Whittle takes out first patent for jet aircraft engine
• Don Bradman hits 334 runs in Leeds test match

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April 12th

• Penguins With No Fear Of Man: A Family Group Unconsciously Posing Before The Camera - An Incident During Sir Hubert Wilkins' Recent Expedition To The Antarctic
• Exploring Antarctica By Air, Pioneer Photographs Taken During Seaplane Flights By Sir Hubert Wilkins , Air Survey In The Antarctic: Incidents Of The Wilkins Expedition
• Discoveries Of Unique Interest At The Birthplace Of Plautus: Sarsina, A Landslide-Buried Town
  "One Mustn't Mummify, One Must Burn Away" - The Life Of Eleonora Duse By E A Rheinhardt
  Performers In The Great Passion Play At Oberammerergau, A Production Evolved From Simple Village Piety
  How The Ancient Egyptians Did The Things We Do To-Day/Astonishing Skill In Arts And Craft (Illustrations)
  The "Washington" Of Australia; Canberra - The Federal Capital To-Day/The World's Cleanest City
  The World Of The Kinema
  Personalities Of The Week: People In The Public Eye
  Aeroplanes In Lifts; A Disappearing Chart-House; In "Argus"
  From The World's Scrap-Book: News Items Of Topical Interest
  The Boat Race/Styles Compared-Oxford Styles Compared-Cambridge
  The Osprey Hovering; Action-Photographs Of Beating Wings (10 Photos)
  The Camera As Recorder: News By Photograph (5 Photos)
  The Seven Goals Of The Great "Soccer" Event; England Wins (Against Scotland At Wembley)
  Sport Of The Season: The Promise Of 1930 (Cricket/Lawn Tennis/Golf/Polo)
  To Sing At Covent Garden: Stars Of The Opera Season
  Fashions From Famous Designers
  A Page For Collectors
  some Adverts - Buchanans Whisky, Austin Reed's , Sotherby & Co , Austin Twenty Ranelagh Limousine , Atco Lawnmowers.

May 10th

• Exhibits At The Royal Academy:- Alain Gerbault And His Cutter "Firecrest" - By Sir John Lavery, R..A. On The Reverse Side Is Another Colour Plate Of One Of The Royal Academy Exhibits "Girl Writing At A Desk" - By Harold Knight, A.R.A.
• The Sunbeam - 25 H.P. Six-Cylinder
• The Old England That Is Passing; "The Saddlers Shop
• Frontispiece:- Full Page Photo - The Byrd Antarctic Expedition: Two Whales, Rising In A Narrow Ice-Crack, "Standing On Their Tales"!
• Obstacles To Polar Exploration Surmounted By Aeroplane; The Byrd Antarctic Flights
  Our Notebook
  The Bimillenary Of Vergil's Birth; The Tomb Of The Poet
  Mass Religion In "Film Land"; Easter At Hollywood Bowl
  "Splendid Isolation"; And The German Menace - Bring An Appreciation Of "Lord Carnock"; A Study In The Old Diplomacy By Harold Nicolson (Photo - The Dutchess Of Bedford's Great Flight From England To The Cape And Back In About 200 Flying-Hours)
  Happenings Of The Week; Home News Of Topical Interest (7 Photos)
  Air Photographs Taken From The Dutchess's Spider/12 Snapshots Taken During Her Grace's 21-Day "Record" Flight
  The Unrest In India; Boycotting And Salt-Making (6 Photos)
  The Glories Of Oberammergau Revived; A New Production Of The Historic "Passion Play" (11 Photos)
  Books Of The Day
  The Royal Academy, 1930 - Knight Paintings Of Circus And Stage/Subject Pictures From History And Legend/An Interior Of Outstanding Charm/Portraits Of Distinguished Men And Women, Including Her Majesty The Queen/The "Spirit Of Place" In English Art/Landscape, Country Life, And Interiors/The Art Of Alfred Munnings (42 Photos)
  Personalities Of The Week; People In The Public Eye (9 Photos Inc. Miss Amy Johnson)
  The Omar Khayyam Discovery; An Illuminated Manuscript Of 1505
  Decorative Modern Timepieces Of Today
  Gramophone Notes
  The "Ring" At Covent Garden (Photo Of New Empire Room At The Trocadero)
  The Playhouses
  Marine Caravanning
  The Chronicle Of The Car (Photos:- Out The Precincts Of Windsor Castle; A Hillman "Straight Eight" Saloon/A New Car For George Bernard Shaw; The Famous Writer's Lanchester 30-H.P. "Straight Eight" Enclosed-Drive Limousine/With Special Rally Weymann Saloon Body; A 25-H.P. Six-Cylinder Sunbeam/Advanced Coachwork; A Fine Body For The Six-Cylinder Black Hawk Chassis And Stuz/Beside Astley Church-"The Light Of Arden"; A Riley Six-Cylinder 14-H.P. Deauville Coach-Built Saloon
  adverts=Swan Pen/Mansion Polish/Bp/Moss Bros/Boulton & Paul Revolving Garden Shedsbattersby Hats
  Full Page adverts -B&W Austin Reed's, The New Ford Tudor Saloon ,Vauxhall

May 24th

• A Symbol Of Our Time; The "Departure Platform" For Overseas - At Croydon Aerodrome
• Drawing; A Famous Artist's Poster Illustrating The Principal Attraction Of The International Horse Show;
• A Member Of The North-West Mounted Police Patrolling The Big Open Spaces Of Canada
  Insects Some 200,000,000 Years Old; Fossils From Triassic Sandstone Beds Near Sydney
  Fish Of Immense Antiquity; Fossils Of Newly Found Species
  The World Of Science; "Red Cuckoos"
  The Greatest Sea Mystery Since The "Marie Celeste" - A Ship Whose Fate Is Still An Unsolved Problem; The Danish Training-Ship "Kobenhavn" Lost In 1928
  Books Of The Day
  A Great Week For Golfers; Famous Amateurs And Professionals In Action Miss Diana Fishwick, The Prince Of Wales, Mr T A Bourne, Mr Harrrison R Johnston, Leo Diegel And Mr R T (Bobby) Jones
  The World Of Kinema
  "Shamrock V" Wins Her First Race: A Good Augury For The America's Cup The First Raving Appearance Of Sir Thomas Lipton's New Challenger Yacht For The America's Cup
  Artistry And Craftmanship In Mediaval England; The Fine Museum Exhibition
  Our News-Portrait Page - Some Personalities Of The Week(8 Photos) Main One Being (The King's Reception Of Officers And N.C.O.'S Of The Manchester Regiment; His Majesty And The Queen Photographed With The Officers In The Garden Of Buckingham Palace - Lieut.-Col. B C Freyberg, V.C. At His Majesty's Right Hand
  A Window On The World; Outstanding Events Recorded By Illustration
  Mithraic Worship In Roman Britain; A Unique Discovery At Colchester, A Roman Temple Of Mithra Where Secret Rites Were Practised
  The Solo London - Australia Flight Airwoman; At Karachi Miss Amy Johnson, Beside Her Gipsy Moth Aeroplane "Jason" Just After Completing A Record Solo Flight To India
  Mob Savagery In Peshawar; The Attacks On The Armoured Cars On The Fateful April 23 When The Crowd Came So Unruly That It Was Necessary For The Troops To Open Fire
  Travel By Steam, Sail And Wing; Novelties And A Survival
  A Page For Collectors
  The Technique Of Rembrandt And His Pupils Revealed By Magnified Photographs
  How Nature Works For Woman's Glorification
  The Chronicle Of The Car
  The Playhouses
  Adverts Including;
• Marmon Eight-Cylinder Cars
• Rover Meteor £398
• Rover Four Door Light Six Saloon £335
• Imperial Airways/BP/Jacob's Lager/Spink & Son Ltd/Scotch Whisky Distillers Edinburgh

December 6th :

• Russian Treason Trial,
• The Ruler of Romania and his heir,
• German view of disarmament,
• Sir James Jean’s Star Broadcast theme,
• First photographs of Himalayan Ibex,
• Early stages of civil flying,
• Ithaca Art,
• Art of the theatre at universities,
• Famous snake park at Port Elizabeth in South Africa
• colour advert for Cadbury chocolate cocoa.
  

December 20th,

• self-portrait of a tiger and Leopard,
• Norse carvings: Oseberg Viking ship,
• the Indian Fakir Conjurer Basket Trick secret,
• Meteors of Arizona and Siberia,
• Bizarre chimney stacks of the Yule log age

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