Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal in 1928. He studied at Duff School, and at Duff College, both with…
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (born 1890)
Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova, later known as "Mother Catherine of Siena", was a Russian Greek Catholic religious sister and literary translator, who died after more than a decade of so…
Anna Abrikosova, Russian linguist (born 1882)
Konstantin Konik was an Estonian politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee.
Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (born 1873)
Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian national…
Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (born 1885)
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity p…
Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)
José María of Manila was a Criollo Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in the early phase of the Spanish Civil War, and is the third Fi…
José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (born 1880)
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of …
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)
Edward Henry Weston was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century pho…
Edward Weston, English-American chemist (born 1850)
Juliette Adam was a French author and feminist.
Juliette Adam, French author (born 1836)
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to May …
Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italian troops (pictured) captured the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa unopposed
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…
In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe (pictured) strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around
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…
In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her f
Remington Rand, Inc. was an early American business machine manufacturer, originally a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mai…
Employees of the Remington Rand company began an 11-month strike action, during which time the company executives develo
The Junkers Ju 52, best known in its Ju 52/3m form is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers. First introduced in 1930 as a civi…
A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven pe
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…
New York City's Triborough Bridge, the "biggest traffic machine ever built", opened to traffic.
The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona, also known as the Battle of Barcelona, was a mutiny that occurred in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, from 19 to 20 July 1936. The…
The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona begins.
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 & Bury Canal in England sent millions of gallons of water cascading 300 feet…
The Nationalist faction, also called the Rebel faction and Francoist faction, was a major faction in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. It was composed of a variety of right-wi…
Nationalist military officers launch a coup d'état against the Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War
The Nationalist faction, also called the Rebel faction and Francoist faction, was a major faction in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. It was composed of a variety of right-wi…
Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona, also known as the Battle of Barcelona, was a mutiny that occurred in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, from 19 to 20 July 1936. The…
The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona is defeated by anarchist militias and Republican loyalists, beginning the…
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War. It also serv…
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, dedicated to Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed in the First World War,…
African Americans or Black Americans, also formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group. As defined by the United States census, they are Americans who h…
African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi…
The Constitution of the Philippines, also known as the 1987 Constitution is the supreme law of the Philippines. Its final draft was completed by the Constitutional Commission on Oc…
The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote
An earthquake occurred on 31 May 1935 between 2:30 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Baluchistan Agency, close to the border with southern Afghanistan. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.…
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