Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
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
Henry John Kaiser was an American industrialist who became known for his shipbuilding and construction projects, then later for his involvement in fostering modern American health …
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
Montevideo, is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. As of the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,287,452, making up about 36.8% of the country's total populatio…
In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina.
A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved, but the modern usage us…
The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
St Kilda is a remote archipelago situated 35 nautical miles west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. It contains the westernmost islands of the Outer Hebrides of S…
The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
The Lapua Movement was a radical Finnish nationalist, fascist, pro-Nazi and anti-communist political movement founded in and named after the town of Lapua. Led by Vihtori Kosola, i…
The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the…
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the first FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. FIFA, football's i…
The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.
Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor o…
The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas…
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event that brings together athletes from across the Commonwealth of Nations, a political association comprising th…
The first British Empire Games are opened in Hamilton, Ontario, by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount…
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 192…
Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
The Ararat rebellion, also known as the Ağrı rebellion, was a 1930 uprising by the Kurds of Ağrı Province, in eastern Turkey, against the Turkish government. The leader of the guer…
The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession. Jones founded and …
Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
The president of the Republic of Finland is the head of state of Finland. The incumbent president is Alexander Stubb, since 1 March 2024. He was elected president for the first tim…
The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their…
Douglas Edward Beasy was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Doug Beasy, Australian footballer and educator (died 2013)
R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of servi…
British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.
The Revolution of 1930 was an armed insurrection across Brazil that ended the Old Republic. The revolution replaced incumbent president Washington Luís with defeated presidential c…
A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ends the First Republic, replacing it with the Vargas Era.