Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist, theorist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been …
Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (born 1853)
Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Pa…
Flo Ziegfeld, American actor and producer (born 1867)
Frederick Charles "Tenby" Davies was a Welsh athlete who became the half-mile world professional champion in 1909 after a race against Irishman Beauchamp Day.
Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (born 1884)
Alfred Henry Maurer was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly …
Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (born 1868)
Frederick Samuel Duesenberg was a German-born American automobile and engine designer, manufacturer and sportsman who was internationally known as a designer of racecars and racing…
Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Company (born 1876)
John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (born 1863)
Rin Tin Tin or Rin-Tin-Tin was a male German Shepherd born in Flirey, France, that became an international star in motion pictures. He was rescued from a World War I battlefield by…
Rin Tin Tin, American acting dog (born 1918)
Louis Émile Anquetin was a French painter.
Louis Anquetin, French painter (born 1861)
Kate M. Gordon was an American suffragist, civic leader, and one of the leading advocates of women's voting rights in the Southern United States. Gordon was the organizer of the So…
Kate M. Gordon, American activist (born 1861)
John Raymond Knister was a Canadian poet, novelist, story writer, columnist, and reviewer, "known primarily for his realistic narratives set in rural Canada ... Knister was a highl…
Raymond Knister, Canadian poet and author (born 1899)
Francisco López Acebal was a Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist.
Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (born 1866)
Paul Bern was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he became the assistant to producer Irving Thalberg. He helped la…
Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889)
Stanisław Wigura was a Polish aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology. Along with Franci…
Stanisław Wigura, Polish pilot and businessman, co-founded the RWD Company (born 1901)
Franciszek Żwirko was a prominent Polish sport and military aviator. Along with Stanisław Wigura, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932.
Franciszek Żwirko, Polish soldier and pilot (born 1895)
Francisco Sebastián Carvajal y Gual, sometimes spelled Carbajal was a Mexican lawyer and politician who served briefly as president in 1914, during the Mexican Revolution. In his r…
Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (born 1870)
Gladys Elinor Watkins was a New Zealand music teacher, singer, and pianist. However, she is most notable for being the first official carillonneur of the National War Memorial Cari…
Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrated the carillon of the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand (dedication pictu
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…
Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (born 1908)
Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism…
Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
Walking is one of the main gaits of terrestrial locomotion among legged animals. Walking is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined as an "inverted pendul…
An estimated 400 ramblers committed a wilful mass trespass of Kinder Scout (pictured) in the Peak District to highlight
The Röhm scandal resulted from the public disclosure of Nazi politician Ernst Röhm's homosexuality by anti-Nazis in 1931 and 1932. As a result of the scandal, Röhm became the first…
Nazi deputies assaulted journalist Helmuth Klotz in the German parliament building after he publicized the homosexuality
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 was a landmark court decision in Scots delict law and English tort law by the House of Lords. It laid the foundation of the modern law of neglige…
Donoghue v Stevenson is decided, ultimately establishing the foundation for negligence in common law jurisdictions world
The Siamese revolution of 1932 or Siamese coup d'état of 1932 was a coup d'état by the Khana Ratsadon which occurred in Siam on 24 June 1932. It ended Siam's centuries-long absolut…
A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri d
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern s…
At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter…
The Catalan Republic was a state proclaimed in 1931 by Francesc Macià as the "Catalan Republic within the Iberian Federation", in the context of the proclamation of the Second Span…
After negotiations between Catalan and Spanish provisional governments, the Catalan Republic proclaimed in April 14 beco