Explore 4338 historical events from 1930–1939.
Thomas Howard Kean is an American statesman and academic administrator who served as the 48th governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. A member of the Republican Party, he served …
Thomas Kean, American academic and politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey
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 adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws introduced in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935 at a special session of the Reichstag during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the N…
Nazi Germany announces two new laws related to race and the rights of Jews. These became known as the Nuremberg Race…
Earl Wesley Bascom was an American-Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and Hollywood actor. Raised in Canada, he portrayed in works of fine a…
Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the boundary between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and…
The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
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 …
The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
Sir Christopher John Elinger Ball is a British academic, who served as Warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1980 to 1988, and as the first Chancellor of the University of Derby, …
Christopher Ball, English linguist and academic
Bhama Srinivasan was a mathematician known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups. Her contributions were honored with the 1990 Noether Lecture. She served as p…
Bhama Srinivasan, Indian-American mathematician and academic
Robert Allen Gutowski was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. He competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in t…
Bob Gutowski, American pole vaulter (died 1960)
Reinier Kreijermaat was a Dutch footballer who was active as a midfielder in the 1960s.
Reinier Kreijermaat, Dutch footballer (died 2018)
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most inf…
Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
The Long March was a military retreat by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese Red Army from advancing Kuomintang (KMT) National Revolutionary Army during the Chinese Civil…
The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
Dudley Stuart John Moore was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. He first came to prominence in the UK as a leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. H…
Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (died 2002)
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. was an American jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, he has become one of the most widely-known jazz bass…
Paul Chambers, African-American bassist and composer (died 1969)
Ronald Hugh Morris was an American track and field athlete who won the national title in pole vault in 1958, 1961 and 1962. He placed fourth at the 1959 Pan American Games and seco…
Ron Morris, American pole vaulter and coach (died 2024)
Pedro ("Pete") Ramos Guerra is a Cuban former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indi…
Pedro Ramos, Cuban baseball player
Otis Rush Jr. was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. His distinctive guitar style featured a slow-burning sound and long bent notes. With qualities similar to the s…
Otis Rush, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018)
Faisal II was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution. This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seve…
Faisal II of Iraq, the last King of Iraq (died 1958)
Ronald Martin Popeil was an American inventor and marketing personality, and founder of the direct response marketing company Ronco. He made appearances in infomercials for the Sho…
Ron Popeil, American businessman, founded the Ronco Company (died 2021)
Edward Sean Linden was a Scottish-Irish poet, literary magazine editor, and political activist. From 1969 to 2002, he published and edited the poetry magazine Aquarius, which The I…
Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine editor (died 2023)
Luis Suárez Miramontes was a Spanish professional footballer and manager. He played as a midfielder for Deportivo de La Coruña, España Industrial, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Sampdoria…
Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer and manager (died 2023)
Bernard Pivot was a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2020.
Bernard Pivot, French journalist, talk show host, and producer (died 2024)
Sir Michael John Hopkins was an English architect.
Michael Hopkins, English architect (died 2023)
John Charlton was an English professional footballer and manager who played as a centre-back for Leeds United. He was part of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup …
Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (died 2020)