Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
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…
Saudi National Day is a public holiday in Saudi Arabia celebrated annually on 23 September to commemorate the proclamation that renamed the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz as the Kingdom…
Saudi National Day: Crown Prince (later king) Faisal of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Ibn Saud, proclaims the unification…
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's in…
Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures…
The Battle of Boquerón was fought September 9–29, 1932, between the Bolivian and Paraguayan armies in and around the stronghold of Boquerón. It was the first major battle of the Ch…
Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia during the Chaco War.
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)
The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq was the Iraqi state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958. It was founded on 23 August 1921 as the Kingdom of Iraq, following the defeat of the…
The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Air India is the flag carrier of India, headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana. Its primary hub is located at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, with secondary hubs at Kempe…
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
George Lansbury was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour governmen…
George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
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)
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)
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, known professionally as Anouk Aimée or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019. Having begun her film care…
Anouk Aimée, French actress (died 2024)
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably American Top 40, as well as the we…
Casey Kasem, American disc jockey, radio celebrity, and voice actor; co-created American Top 40 (died 2014)
Michael Smith was a British-Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis. …
Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South Africa…
Pik Botha, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States (died 2018)
Charles Robert Knox was an American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He served as head coach of three National Football League (NFL) teams, th…
Chuck Knox, American football coach (died 2018)
Derek Minter was an English Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer. Born in Ickham, Kent, with education starting in nearby Littlebourne, he was versatile rider who rod…
Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (died 2015)
Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, f…
Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (died 1999)
David Tindle is a British painter who was made a Royal Academician in 1979. He is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall where several of his paintings are in the Senior Common Room. In the Ol…
David Tindle, English painter and educator
Dmitry Alekseevich Zaikin was a Soviet cosmonaut trainer.
Dmitry Zaikin, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut instructor (died 2013)