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1930 was the year that the planet Pluto was discovered; a yellow-fever vaccine was developed; Constantinople became Istanbul; and flash powder was replaced by safer photo flashbulbs.


Significant Book of 1930:
Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

BOOK The quintessential hard-boiled detective novel, starring Sam Spade as the loner detective, along with a beautiful but treacherous girl, a fat man, and a mysterious statue of a black bird, a treasure worth killing for.

  Significant Music of 1930:
Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo

BOOK Duke Ellington records one of his signature tunes, "Mood Indigo," a composition he wrote with his clarinetist Barney Bigard.




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