Editing 1930 (section)

===July===
{{Main|July 1930}}
* [[July 3]]–[[July 10|10]] – The [[First Eastern Women's Congress]] takes place in [[Damascus]] in [[Syria]].
* [[July 4]] – The dedication of [[George Washington]]'s sculpted head is held at [[Mount Rushmore]], [[South Dakota]].
* [[July 5]] – The [[Lambeth Conference#Seventh: 1930|Seventh Lambeth Conference]] of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of [[birth control]] in limited circumstances, a move away from the [[Christian views on birth control]] expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier.
* [[July 7]]
** The far-right [[Lapua Movement]] marches in [[Helsinki]], Finland.
** Building of the Boulder Dam (later known as the [[Hoover Dam]]) is started on the [[Colorado River]], in the United States.
* [[July 11]] – Australian [[cricket]]er [[Don Bradman]] scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the [[List of Test cricket records#Innings or series|highest individual Test innings]] of 334, during a [[Test cricket|Test match]] against [[England cricket team|England]].
* [[July 13]] – The inaugural [[1930 FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup]] begins: [[Lucien Laurent]] scores the first goal, for [[France national football team|France]] against [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]].
* [[July 19]] – [[Georges Simenon]]'s detective character Inspector [[Jules Maigret]] makes his first appearance in print under Simenon's own name, when the novel ''Pietr-le-Letton'' (known in English as ''[[The Strange Case of Peter the Lett]]'') begins serialization in a French weekly magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trussel.com/maig/momlet.htm|title=Maigret of the Month: ''Pietr-le-Letton'' (Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett) |access-date=2013-04-05 |date=July 2004}}</ref>  
* [[July 28]] – [[R. B. Bennett]] defeats [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] in federal elections and becomes the [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
* [[July 29]] – British [[airship]] ''[[R100]]'' sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada.
* [[July 30]] – [[Uruguay national football team|Uruguay]] beats [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] 4–2 to win the first [[1930 FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup]] [[1930 FIFA World Cup final|final]] in [[Association football]], at [[Estadio Centenario]] in [[Montevideo]].