Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
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)
Colin Glenn Clive was a British theatre and film actor. Known for portraying individualistic, tumultuous characters which often mirrored his personal life, he is most famous for hi…
Colin Clive, British actor (born 1900)
Jacob Schick was an American military officer, inventor, and entrepreneur who patented an early electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the fath…
Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (born 1877)
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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Daniel Edward "Ned" Sawyer was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (born 1884)
Oliver Law was an African-American communist and labor organizer, who fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Having previously served in the United States Army, he trave…
Oliver Law, American commander (born 1899)
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fas…
George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (born 1898)
Julius L. Meier was an American businessman, civic leader, and politician in the state of Oregon. The son of the Meier & Frank department store founder, he would become a lawyer be…
Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (born 1874)
Julian Heward Bell was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his h…
Julian Bell, English poet and academic (born 1908)
Olga Hahn-Neurath was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher. She is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle. She was sister of the mathematician Hans Hahn.
Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1882)
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi, was an Italian radio-frequency engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based …
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
Edgar Arthur "Ted" McDonald was a cricketer who played for Tasmania, Victoria, Lancashire and Australia, as well as being an Australian rules footballer who played with Launceston …
Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1891)
Artur Sirk was an Estonian political and military figure. A veteran of the country's struggle for independence, Sirk later became a leading figure within the right-wing Vaps Moveme…
Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1900)
James Guthrie was a Scottish motorcycle racer.
Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer (born 1897)
Sigizmund Aleksandrovich Levanevsky was a Soviet pioneer of long-range flight who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for his role in the SS Chelyuskin rescue.
Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (born 1902)
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of…
Albert Roussel, French composer (born 1869)
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals…
Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (born 1862)
Marciano Pedro Durruti Domingo was a Spanish anarchist and Falangist revolutionary. The younger brother of Buenaventura Durruti, he followed him into the Spanish anarchist movement…
Pedro Durruti, Spanish anarchist and Falangist revolutionary (born 1911)
George Michael "Mick" Prendergast was an Australian politician who served as the 28th Premier of Victoria. He was born to Irish emigrant parents in Adelaide, but he grew up in Staw…
George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (born 1854)
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
Nitrocellulose is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid.
Nitrate film being stored in a 20th Century Fox facility spontaneously combusted, destroying more than 40,000 reels of…
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