Explore 1255 historical events from 1930–1939.
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. census. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloo…
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens
The New Deal was a 1933–1938 series of economic, social, and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He in…
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The Australian Eastern Mission (AEM) was a 1934 diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia led by Australian deputy prime minister John Latham. The mission was the first such offi…
The landmark Australian Eastern Mission returns from its three-month tour of East and South-East Asia
The Communications Act of 1934 is a United States federal law signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, 1934, and codified as Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States…
The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Vincent Brian Hill was an English traditional pop singer, best known for his cover version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune "Edelweiss" (1967), which reached No. 2 on the U…
Vince Hill, English singer-songwriter (died 2023)
Robert Colin Stigwood was an Australian music entrepreneur, film producer, and impresario, long based in the United Kingdom. He was best known for managing musicians such as Cream,…
Robert Stigwood, Australian producer and manager (died 2016)
Barrie John Unsworth is an Australian former politician, representing the Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991. He served as the 36th Premier from Jul…
Barrie Unsworth, Australian politician, 36th Premier of New South Wales
Vicar, a pseudonym for Víctor José Arriagada Ríos, was a Chilean cartoonist, known for his prolific career drawing Disney comics.
Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (died 2012)
Donald Kirshner was an American music publisher, music consultant, rock music producer, talent manager, and songwriter. Dubbed "the Man with the Golden Ear" by Time, he was best kn…
Don Kirshner, American songwriter and producer (died 2011)
Sir Peter John Morris was an Australian surgeon and Nuffield professor of surgery at the University of Oxford. Morris was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, fou…
Peter Morris, Australian-English surgeon and academic (died 2022)
James Child Drury Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, which was broadcast …
James Drury, American actor (died 2020)
George Irving Shirley is an American operatic tenor, and was the first African-American tenor to perform a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
George Shirley, African-American tenor and educator
Richard Dorian “Dickie” Goodman was an American musician and record producer. He is best known for inventing and using the technique of the "break-in", an early precursor to sampli…
Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1989)
George Masangkay Canseco was a Filipino composer and former politician. He composed numerous popular Filipino songs.
George Canseco, Filipino composer and producer (died 2004)
D. Jayakanthan, popularly known as JK, was an Indian writer, journalist, orator, filmmaker, critic and activist. Born in Cuddalore, he dropped out of school at the age of 9 and wen…
Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (died 2015)
Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA …
Shirley MacLaine, American actress, singer, and dancer
Peter James McParland was a Northern Irish footballer who played as an outside left. He was the last surviving member of the Aston Villa team which won the 1957 FA Cup, in which ga…
Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer and manager
Lois Duncan Steinmetz, known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist. She is best known for her young-adult novels, and has been credited by historia…
Lois Duncan, American journalist and author (died 2016)
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as president from 2001 to 2011.
Pedro Pires, Cape Verdean politician, 3rd President of Cape Verde
Jeremiah Patrick Lordan was an English songwriter, composer and singer. He had three hit singles on the UK Singles Chart before focusing purely on songwriting. Amongst his songwrit…
Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter (died 1995)
Donald Hamilton McKenney was a Canadian ice hockey forward and coach. He played in the National Hockey League between 1954 and 1968 with five teams, mostly with the Boston Bruins. …
Don McKenney, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)
Laura Betti was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pas…
Laura Betti, Italian actress (died 2004)
Sir Henry Cooper was a British professional boxer. He was undefeated in British and Commonwealth heavyweight championship contests for twelve years and held the European heavyweigh…
Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster (died 2011)
Luis Ernesto Aparicio Montiel, nicknamed "Little Louie", is a Venezuelan former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop from 1956 to 1…
Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan-American baseball player