Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
The Volksempfänger was a range of low-cost vacuum tube radio receivers produced in Germany during the 1930s. It was developed by engineer Otto Griessing at the request of Joseph Go…
The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of…
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 Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief an…
President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the predecessor of the Feder
The Ministry of Aviation was a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933–45). It is also the original name of the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus building on the Wilhelms…
All military aviation organizations within or under the control of the RLM of Germany were officially merged in a covert
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 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.
Parliamentary elections were held in Andorra on 31 August 1933, the first held under universal male suffrage. The extension of the franchise to all men over 21 followed social unre…
The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with…
Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov was a Soviet mountaineer and sculptor.
Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil…
Ghazi ibn Faisal was King of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca, and was the only son of Faisal I. He die…
Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
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 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.
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
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)
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…
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…