The queen of crime spent part of every year on archaeological digs.
After marrying archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930, Agatha Christie spent several months a year at excavations in the Middle East and used them in her novels.
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- 1928 · 1943 The US once banned sliced bread.
- 1929 · 1956 To experiment on himself, a surgeon tricked a nurse.
- 1930 · 2006 Pluto was named by an 11-year-old Oxford schoolgirl.
- 1930 Since its discovery, Pluto has not yet made it even halfway around the Sun. Its year lasts almost 248 Earth years, so having been found in 1930, it will complete its first observed orbit only around 2178.
- 1931 · 1973 The Empire State Building went up in 13.5 months; the Sydney Opera House opened 16 years after its design contest.