Explore 1255 historical events from 1930–1939.
Sir Robert Laird Borden was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada duri…
Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1854)
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC was a British politician. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and hi…
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1864)
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in modern history. Roc…
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Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, relations…
Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (born 1870)
Jean Harlow was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-…
Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911)
Reginald Joseph Mitchell was a British aircraft designer who worked for the Southampton aviation company Supermarine from 1916 until 1936. He is best known for designing racing sea…
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later exe…
Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (born 1893)
Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue was a French politician who served as President of France from 1924 to 1931.
Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (born 1863)
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a British novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to Lon…
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The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Se…
Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm tha
LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volu…
The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in
Fleischer Studios was an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until its acquisition by Pa…
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United S…
The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Mari
The early life, business career and political rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated on 28 May 1937, when he was summoned to Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands" and accept the office…
The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to
In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her …
Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a
In the context of mass Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine, violent attacks against British colonial installations and Jews of the Yishuv broke out in Jaffa on 19 April 1936.…
The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represen…
The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor
The March of the Iron Will was an Italian offensive occurring from 26 April to 5 May 1936, during the final days of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Its goal was to capture the Ethi…
Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American radio-frequency engineer and inventor who developed FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver system.
Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC
The International Surrealist Exhibition was held from 11 June to 4 July 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries, near Savile Row in London's Mayfair, England.
The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens
Vadim Alekseyevich Kuzmin was a Russian theoretical physicist.
Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (died 2015)
Urs Paul Rolf Wild was a Swiss chemist. He became known for his pioneering works in single molecule detection.
Urs Wild, Swiss chemist (died 2022)
The Ethiopian Empire, historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, was a country that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It existed from the es…
Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5
Sada Abe was a Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, Kichizō Ishida , via strangulation on May 18, 1936, before cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying t…
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag