Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish bishop. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala from 1914 to 1931, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is commemora…
Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribu…
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (born 1868)
Auguste-Henri Forel was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and former eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of …
Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (born 1848)
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted f…
Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (born 1903)
Dorothea Ann Fairbridge referred as Dora Fairbridge was a South African author and co-founder of the Guild of Loyal Women.
Dorothea Fairbridge, South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (born 1862)
Frank Harris was an Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day.
Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (born 1856)
Wilhelmus Hubertus "Wiel" Nolens was a Dutch politician and a Roman Catholic priest.
Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and politician (born 1860)
Francis Marion Smith was an American miner, business magnate and civic builder in the Mojave Desert, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Oakland, California. He was known nationally an…
Francis Marion Smith, American miner and businessman (born 1846)
Ådalen is the river valley of the Ångerman River, downstream Junsele, in Sweden. It often refers to the broad, densely populated, fjord-like mouth of the river, in Kramfors Municip…
Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration
Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia under Empress Zewditu between 1916 and 1930.
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art De…
New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened
The City of New York Police Department, also known as the New York City Police Department (NYPD), is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City. Established on May 23,…
New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he
In 1930, a devastating fire destroyed the wooden church in Costești, a small town in Argeș County, Romania, and killed 118 people, mostly primary school and high school students, t…
A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after st
The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United…
The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting s
The Independence Producers were a minor league baseball team based in Independence, Kansas, United States, that played from 1921 to 1925 and from 1928 to 1932. From 1921 to 1924, t…
The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas
Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It …
"Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly discovered dwarf planet by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observat
An earthquake affected Myanmar on 5 May 1930 with a moment magnitude (Mw ) of 7.4. The shock occurred 35 km (22 mi) beneath the surface with a maximum Rossi–Forel intensity of IX. …
The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bag
Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she lef
The Council of People's Commissars (CPC), commonly known as the Sovnarkom (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (R…
Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. As a member of the Republican Party, he served as the third United States secretary of …
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The 1930 Salmas earthquake occurred on 7 May at 01:34:26 IRST in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The earthquake, which was among Iran's largest, measured 7.1 on the moment magnitud…
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The Chrysler Building is a 1,046-foot-tall (319 m), Art Deco skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of …
The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the publ
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a sl…
A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent
Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. …
One-year conscription comes into force in France