June 17, 1930
US President Herbert Hoover signs the Hawley-Smoot Tariff bill into law, which subsequently increases in excess of 900 U.S. import duties.
Bonus Army: Around one-thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
Births
Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
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