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* 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).
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Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.
* 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, " With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.
* 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
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Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).
In June 1930, Johnson's flight to Australia was the subject of a contemporary popular song, " Amy, Wonderful Amy ", composed by Horatio Nicholls and recorded by Harry Bidgood, Jack Hylton, Arthur Lally, Arthur Rosebery and Debroy Somers.
The air base was briefly host to Amy Johnson during May 1930 on her UK-Australia flight in her Gipsy Moth named ' Jason '.
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In the ensuing years, John played many of his greatest stage roles on BBC Radio including Richard of Bordeaux, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, and Hamlet, one production of which featured Emlyn Williams as Claudius, Celia Johnson as Ophelia, and Martita Hunt as Gertrude ( the part she played in Gielgud's debut in the role at the Old Vic in 1930 ).
Johnson achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
Following her divorce from Johnson in 1983, Gifford met sports commentator Frank Gifford ( born August 16, 1930 ) during an episode of ABC's Good Morning America ; the couple married in 1986.
John Seward Johnson II ( born 1930 ) also known as J. Seward Johnson, Jr. and Seward Johnson is an American artist known for his trompe l ' oeil painted bronze statues, and a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I ( co-founder of Johnson & Johnson ), and of Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, of Bermuda.
The first major break-away was in 1930, when Sherrod C. Johnson created a rival organization, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, through which he challenged Lawson's stance on practical holiness.
* Charles Fletcher Johnson ( 1859 – 1930 ), Democrat from Maine, U. S. Senator, 1911 – 1917, and judge
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