Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
The Independent Subway System was a rapid transit rail system in New York City that is now part of the New York City Subway. It was first constructed as the Eighth Avenue Line in M…
The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally owned IND, is opened.
Myriam Bru is a French retired actress and the wife of German actor Horst Buchholz, to whom she was married from 1958 until his death in 2003. She appeared in 16 films between 1952…
Myriam Bru, French actress
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industri…
During the Great Depression, U.S. president Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus…
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industri…
Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans using…
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the …
Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award…
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideo…
The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
Locksley Wellington Hampton was an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger. As his nickname implies, Hampton's main instrument was slide trombone, but he also occasionally …
Slide Hampton, African-American trombonist and composer (died 2021)
Elaine Iva May is an American actress, comedian, writer, and director. She first gained fame in the 1950s for her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols before going on …
Elaine May, American actress, comedian, director, and screenwriter
Florence Angela Margaret Mortimer-Barrett was a British world No. 1 tennis player. Mortimer won three major singles titles: the 1955 French Championships, the 1958 Australian Champ…
Angela Mortimer, English tennis player (died 2025)
Roy Halston Frowick, known mononymously as Halston, was an American fashion designer. His minimalist, fluid designs helped define the look of 1970s American style. Halston was know…
Halston, American fashion designer (died 1990)
Upper Volta was a colony of French West Africa established in 1919 in the territory occupied by present-day Burkina Faso. It was formed from territories that had been part of the c…
The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as President of Colombia from 1950 to 1953. In November 1951 poor health led him to cede pr…
A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle was a British stage and screen actress. She began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She appeared in only one fil…
The body of actress Peg Entwistle is discovered by police, two days after her suicide by jumping off of the…
Maurice "Maury" Meyers was an American politician who served four non-consecutive terms as Mayor of Beaumont, Texas. He is well known in the city as a progressive and economic mind…
Maury Meyers, American lawyer and politician (died 2014)
Fernando Botero Angulo was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, whic…
Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (died 2023)
James Fuller Fixx was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running; he is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution by popularizing …
Jim Fixx, American runner and author (died 1984)
Rafał Gan-Ganowicz was a Polish soldier-in-exile, mercenary, journalist, member of the National Council of Poland, and political and social activist, dedicating his life to anti-co…
Rafał Gan-Ganowicz, Polish mercenary, activist, and journalist (died 2002)
Nikolai Semyonovich Kardashev was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist best known for the Kardashev scale, which measures a civilization's status in technological evolution based on…
Nikolai Kardashev, Russian astrophysicist (died 2019)
Meadowlark Lemon was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball t…
Meadowlark Lemon, African-American basketball player and minister (died 2015)
Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who won one gold and two bronze Olympic medals. She was the first track and field athlete to compete at six Olympics (1952–1972).
Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower and politician (died 1998)
Israr Ahmed was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, theologian and orator. He developed a following in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia and also among some South Asian Muslims in the M…
Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (died 2010)
Shirley Cawley is a British former athlete who won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland.
Shirley Cawley, English long jumper
Frank D'Rone was an American jazz singer and guitarist.
Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (died 2013)
Francis Albert Lai was a French composer, noted for his film scores. He won the 1970 Oscar for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the…
Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer (died 2018)