Explore 1255 historical events from 1930–1939.
Zia Fariduddin Dagar was an Indian classical vocalist belonging to the Dhrupad tradition, the oldest existing form of north Indian classical music. He was part of the Dagar family …
Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Indian singer (died 2013)
George Derek Ibbotson was an English runner who excelled in athletics in the 1950s. His most famous achievement was setting a new world record in the mile in 1957.
Derek Ibbotson, English runner (died 2017)
John Patrick Murtha Jr. was an American politician and Marine Corps officer. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the Unit…
John Murtha, American colonel and politician (died 2010)
Bernie Faloney was a professional football player in the Canadian Football League and an outstanding American college football player for the Maryland Terrapins. Born in Carnegie, …
Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian football player and sportscaster (died 1999)
Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contribution…
Dudley R
Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University.…
Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic (died 2016)
Anna Maria Pierangeli, known internationally by the stage name Pier Angeli, was an Italian actress, model and singer. She won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress for her debut ro…
Pier Angeli, Italian actress, twin sister to Marisa Pavan (died 1971)
José Sanchis Grau was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby (1954) and …
José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (died 2011)
Maria Luisa Pierangeli, known professionally as Marisa Pavan, was an Italian and French actress who first became known as the twin sister of film star Pier Angeli before achieving …
Marisa Pavan, Italian actress, twin sister to Pier Angeli (died 2023)
Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet-Russian poet and songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw and, along with such poets a…
Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet and author (died 1994)
Friedrich Gustav Piffl was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Vienna.
Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (born 1864)
Ferenc Oslay was a Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, Trianon irredentist, and propagandist.
Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (born 1883)
William Henry Lockwood was an English Test cricketer, best known as a fast bowler and the unpredictable, occasionally devastating counterpart to the amazingly hard-working Tom Rich…
William Lockwood, English cricketer (born 1868)
Harold Hart Crane was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity. His collection Whit…
Hart Crane, American poet (born 1899)
Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such ph…
Charles Fort, American journalist and author (born 1874)
Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contribute…
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
Marcel Jacques Amand Romain Boulenger was a French novelist and fiction writer. He was awarded the Prix Nee of the Académie Française in 1918 and the Prix Stendhal in 1919. He was …
Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (born 1873)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre …
Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1852)
John Verran was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as premier of South Australia from 1910 to 1912, the second member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hol…
John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (born 1856)
Theodorus Heemskerk was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 12 February 1908 until 29 August 1913.
Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1852)
Marie-Clara Dorimène Roy Desjardins and her husband, Alphonse Desjardins, were the co-founders of the Caisses populaires Desjardins, a forerunner of North American credit unions. S…
Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian businesswoman, co-founded Desjardins Group (born 1858)
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. Plaatje was a founding member and first General Secretary of th…
Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (born 1876)
Gladys Elinor Watkins was a New Zealand music teacher, singer, and pianist. However, she is most notable for being the first official carillonneur of the National War Memorial Cari…
Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrated the carillon of the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand (dedication pictu
The Röhm scandal resulted from the public disclosure of Nazi politician Ernst Röhm's homosexuality by anti-Nazis in 1931 and 1932. As a result of the scandal, Röhm became the first…
Nazi deputies assaulted journalist Helmuth Klotz in the German parliament building after he publicized the homosexuality