Timeline January 1930

Events in January 1930 5

• 1903 – 1930 Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) Died 19 January 1930, aged 26 English philosopher, mathematician and economist who made lasting contributions to logic, probability, decision theory and economics. Ramsey theory in combinatorics is named after him.
• 1930 Australian Open 1930 Men: Edgar Moon · Women: Daphne Akhurst Cozens Akhurst Cozens' 5th title.
• 1930 Whittle patents the turbojet Frank Whittle files patent for jet propulsion RAF officer Frank Whittle filed a patent for an aircraft engine driven by a gas turbine. It was the basis of the turbojet engine. His first engine ran on a test bed in 1937.
• 1930 Primo de Rivera resigns Spain's military dictator steps down General Miguel Primo de Rivera resigned as head of the Spanish government after losing the support of the army and King Alfonso XIII. General Dámaso Berenguer replaced him. The monarchy was badly weakened and fell the following year.
• 1930 Gene Hackman born in San Bernardino, California Eugene Allen Hackman was born on 30 January 1930 in San Bernardino, California, the eldest of three children of Eugene Ezra Hackman, a newspaper pressman, and Anna Lyda Elizabeth. The family moved frequently before settling in Danville, Illinois. When Hackman was thirteen, his father abandoned the family -- a wound that shaped his understanding of absent, complicated and morally ambiguous men, the characters he would spend a career inhabiting.