Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
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
A fast battleship was a battleship which in concept emphasised speed without undue compromise of either armor or armament. Most of the early World War I-era dreadnought battleships…
The U
Hormel Foods Corporation, doing business as Hormel Foods or simply Hormel, is an American multinational food processing company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. H…
The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop…
The Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, was a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes o…
The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable…
On August 18, 1937, a lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire in Shoshone National Forest, approximately 35 miles (56 km) west of Cody, Wyoming, United States. Fifteen firefig…
A lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire (pictured) in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, consuming 1,700 acres…
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
The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936. It was also known as the Fa 61, as Focke began a new company—Focke…
Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter
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
The House of Commons of Northern Ireland was the lower house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The upper house in the bicamera…
In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation bill
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development o…
Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication
Mengjiang, also known as Mengkiang, officially the Mengjiang United Autonomous Government, was an autonomous zone of the Wang Jingwei regime in Inner Mongolia. It was formed in 193…
The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China
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.
Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country
The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. The viadu…
The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, as well as Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 unt…
King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian…
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who made history at the 1936 Olympic Games by winning four gold medals, setting individual Olympic records in …
Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
The Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1…
A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200…
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second …
Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain…