Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
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
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…
Koryo-saram or Koryoin are ethnic Koreans of the mainland former Soviet Union who descend from Koreans who lived in the Russian Far East.
The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh…
Chicago Public Schools is a public school district in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Chicago Public Schools began delivering lessons via radio amid to a polio outbreak, marking the first large-scale use…
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…
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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…
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).
J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy children's novel The Hobbit, which later served as a prelude to The Lord of the Rings, was…
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…
The Nyon Conference was a diplomatic conference held in Nyon, Switzerland, in September 1937 to address attacks on international shipping in the Mediterranean Sea during the Spanis…
Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met at the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the…
The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault, queen …
Six days after retiring from the Queen's College, Oxford, Robert Howard Hodgkin was elected its provost due to the…
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in Decemb…
Former British king Edward and his wife arrived at Berlin Friedrichstraße station to begin a tour of Nazi Germany,…
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
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
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
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 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