Timeline February 1930

Events in February 1930 7

• 1892 – 1930 Mabel Normand (1892-1930) Died 23 February 1930, aged 37 American silent film comedian, screenwriter and director who worked with Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin. She was one of the most popular stars of early Hollywood comedy. She died of tuberculosis.
• 1907 – 1930 Horst Wessel (1907-1930) Died 23 February 1930, aged 22 Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) leader in Berlin who was shot by communists and died of his wounds. Joseph Goebbels turned him into a martyr for the Nazi movement. A song Wessel wrote became the party anthem.
• 1930 Communist Party of Vietnam founded Ho Chi Minh unites rival communist groups At a meeting in Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh merged rival Vietnamese communist groups into a single party. Later that year it was renamed the Indochinese Communist Party. It went on to lead the struggle against French colonial rule.
• 1930 Yên Bái mutiny Vietnamese soldiers rise against French colonial rule Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army at Yên Bái rebelled, with support from the Vietnamese Nationalist Party. The French put the mutiny down within hours. The crackdown that followed destroyed the party.
• 1930 Christopher Morcom dies The friendship that shaped him Turing's closest friend at Sherborne, and the first person to meet him as an intellectual equal, dies of bovine tuberculosis at eighteen. Turing writes to Morcom's mother for years afterwards and turns over, repeatedly and in writing, the question of whether a mind can exist apart from the body that housed it. It is not a large step from there to asking what a mind actually is.
• 1930 – 2015 Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) Died 2 May 2015, aged 85 Ruth Rendell was an English crime writer best known for her Chief Inspector Wexford detective novels and for darker psychological thrillers written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. She published more than sixty novels and sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Rendell sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer from 1997.
• 1930 – 2024 Leon N. Cooper (1930-2024) Died 23 October 2024, aged 94 American physicist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for the BCS theory of superconductivity.