Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XI Olympiad and branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germa…
Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
Rainey Bethea, was the last person publicly executed in the United States. Bethea, who confessed to the rape and killing of a 70-year-old woman named Lishia Edwards, was convicted …
Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
Vadim Alekseyevich Kuzmin was a Russian theoretical physicist.
Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (died 2015)
Urs Paul Rolf Wild was a Swiss chemist. He became known for his pioneering works in single molecule detection.
Urs Wild, Swiss chemist (died 2022)
Roger Arthur Graef OBE was an American-born British documentary filmmaker and theatre director. Born in New York City, he moved to Britain in 1962, where he began a career producin…
Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer (died 2022)
Vladimir Hütt was an Estonian philosopher.
Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (died 1997)
Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1992, except from April to December 1981. A member of the Flemish Christi…
Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2013)
John Perry Pardee was an American professional football player and head coach. He played as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). As a coach, he is the only head coac…
Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (died 2013)
The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei…
The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
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: Santander falls to the Nationalists and the Republican Interprovincial Council is dissolved.
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the countr…
Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
RMS Queen Mary is a former British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. It is currently a hotel, museum, and conve…
The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
Joen Pauli Højgaard Ellefsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1981 to 1985.
Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese technician, surveyor, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2012)
Charles Patrick Roberts is a retired American politician and journalist who served as a United States senator from Kansas from 1997 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Rober…
Pat Roberts, American captain, journalist, and politician
Reginald Stephen "Reggie, the Ruffian" Fleming was a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New Y…
Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2009)
Pierre Hétu was a conductor and pianist. He studied music from 1955–57 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Germaine Malépart (piano) and at the University of …
Pierre Hétu, Canadian pianist and conductor (died 1998)
The Spanish Civil War was fought in Spain from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of th…
Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to direct the republican war effort.
The Spanish Civil War was fought in Spain from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of th…
Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
The thylacine, also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf or marsupial wolf is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial which was native to the Australian mainla…
The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
The Portuguese Navy, also known as the Portuguese War Navy or as the Portuguese Armada, is the navy of the Portuguese Armed Forces. Chartered in 1317 by King Denis of Portugal, it …
The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar…
The Spanish Civil War was fought in Spain from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of th…
Spanish Civil War: Lluis Companys reshuffles the Generalitat de Catalunya, with the marxist POUM and…
Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's mo…
Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter (died 1988)
David Edward Crombie is a former Canadian academic and politician who served as the 56th mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978. Crombie was elected to Parliament following his tenure …
David Crombie, Canadian educator and politician, 56th Mayor of Toronto
Jill Dorothy Ireland was an English actress and singer.
Jill Ireland, English actress (died 1990)