Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
George Benjamin Luks was an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of American painting.
George Luks, American painter and illustrator (born 1867)
Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of the French Third Republic in 1917 and 1925. After working as a professor at the Sorbonne Univ…
Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (born 1853)
Svend Kornbeck was a Danish stage and film actor.
Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (born 1869)
Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He co-discovered the Bacillus Calm…
Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (born 1863)
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 began its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg
In Nazi Germany, transgender people were prosecuted, barred from public life, forcibly detransitioned, and imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. Though some factors, such a…
As part of Nazi Germany's persecution of transgender people, thousands of books taken from the Institute for Sexual Scie
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the…
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James Charles Rodgers was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1920s. Known as Jimmie Rodgers and widely regarded as the "Father of Count…
American singer Jimmie Rodgers (pictured) died at the Taft Hotel in New York City
The 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane was among the most damaging hurricanes in the Mid-Atlantic states in the eastern United States. The sixth storm and third hurricane of the ver…
The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47…
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the…
Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a…
George Kelly Barnes, better known by his nickname Machine Gun Kelly, was an American gangster from Memphis, Tennessee, active during the Prohibition era. His nickname came from his…
As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he supposedly shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which became a…
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disrupt…
In the first proven act of sabotage in the history of commercial aviation, a Boeing 247 operated by United Airlines…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is an executive department of the United States federal government that oversees the domestic enforcement of federal laws and the admi…
The United States Department of Justice acquired a military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, to be…
Bernard "Benny" Rothman was a British political activist. He is known for organizing the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932, which led to the establishment of the National Parks…
Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom
A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership. A self…
In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated
The Cook County Jail, located on 96 acres in South Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, is operated by the Sheriff of Cook County. It is sometimes referred to as 26th and Cal or Hotel Cali…
Having been incarcerated at the Cook County Jail since his sentencing on October 24, 1931, mobster Al Capone is transfer
On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Col. Charles Lindbergh and his wife, aviator and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was murdered after being ab…
Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviator and aviation pioneer who became one of the most celebrated figures of early flight.
Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviator and aviation pioneer who became one of the most celebrated figures of early flight.
Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first wom
Marmaduke Grove Vallejo, was a Chilean Air Force officer, political figure and member of the Government Junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932.
Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic o
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is also the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh-largest by popul…
In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which
The Afsluitdijk is a major dam and causeway in the Netherlands. It was constructed between 1927 and 1932 and runs from Den Oever in North Holland province to the village of Zurich …
In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJ
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D