Explore 2813 historical events from 1930–1939.
The New Deal was a 1933–1938 series of economic, social, and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He in…
New Deal: President Franklin D
The Walt Disney Company, commonly and globally known as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studi…
The Walt Disney Company cartoon Three Little Pigs premieres at Radio City Music Hall, featuring the hit song "Who's Afra
The New Deal was a 1933–1938 series of economic, social, and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He in…
New Deal: The U
The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the 73rd US Congress to authorize the president to regulate industry for fair wage…
The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution
The Kansas City massacre was the shootout and murder of four law enforcement officers and a criminal fugitive at the Union Station railroad depot in Kansas City, Missouri, on the m…
Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by ga
The Crescent is a daily long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and New Orleans. The 1,377-mile (2,216 km) route connects the Northeast to the Gulf C…
The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933…
The 1933 Diexi earthquake occurred in Diexi, Mao County, Sichuan, Republic of China on August 25 with a moment magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Wit…
The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
Marcos Alonso Imaz, nicknamed Marquitos, was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender. He was best known for his participation in Real Madrid's five European Cup conquests, ma…
Marcos Alonso Imaz, Spanish footballer (died 2012)
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she…
Joan Bakewell, English journalist and author
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual professional baseball game sanctioned by Major League Baseball (MLB) and contested betw…
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the…
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19…
The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at…
In Nazi terminology, Gleichschaltung, meaning 'synchronization' or 'coordination', was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Germany—establi…
In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
The social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany were composed of various ideas about genetics. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement of the German people …
Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring…
Wiley Hardeman Post was an American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped devel…
Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world…
Perry Botkin Jr. was an American composer, producer, arranger, and musician.
Perry Botkin Jr
Vera Samuilovna Krepkina, née Kalashnikova, was a Soviet-Ukrainian track and field athlete. She competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Olympics. At all these Oly…
Vera Krepkina, Russian long jumper (died 2023)
Icarus Nestor Pappas, better known as Ike Pappas, was an American television journalist who worked as a CBS News correspondent for 25 years.
Ike Pappas, American journalist and actor (died 2008)
Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird was an English cricketer and international cricket umpire. During his long umpiring career, he became a well regarded figure among players and the viewi…
Dickie Bird, English cricketer and umpire (died 2025)
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and singer. Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, and was known for her numerous publicity stunts, her…
Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (died 1967)
Bruno Guido Camillo Tesch was a German communist and member of the Young Communist League of Germany. At age 20, he was convicted of murder and executed in connection with the Alt…
Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in…
The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq was the Iraqi state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958. It was founded on 23 August 1921 as the Kingdom of Iraq, following the defeat of the…
The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day…
A wildfire, forest fire, brushfire or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Some natural forest ecosystems depend on wildfire. Mode…
Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn;…
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 and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the Haavara Agreement. The agreement was a major factor in…
There have been several Bible translations into Afrikaans, a language primarily spoken in South Africa and Namibia. The South African Bible Society released full Afrikaans Bibles …
The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.