Explore 942 historical events from 1930–1939.
Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, relations…
Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (born 1870)
Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death. As a composer, much of his output was organ musi…
Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (born 1870)
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Se…
Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm tha
LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volu…
The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in
Fleischer Studios was an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until its acquisition by Pa…
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United S…
The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Mari
The early life, business career and political rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated on 28 May 1937, when he was summoned to Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands" and accept the office…
The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to
In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her …
Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a
The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represen…
The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor
The March of the Iron Will was an Italian offensive occurring from 26 April to 5 May 1936, during the final days of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Its goal was to capture the Ethi…
Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
In the context of mass Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine, violent attacks against British colonial installations and Jews of the Yishuv broke out in Jaffa on 19 April 1936.…
The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
Vadim Alekseyevich Kuzmin was a Russian theoretical physicist.
Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (died 2015)
Urs Paul Rolf Wild was a Swiss chemist. He became known for his pioneering works in single molecule detection.
Urs Wild, Swiss chemist (died 2022)
Roger Arthur Graef OBE was an American-born British documentary filmmaker and theatre director. Born in New York City, he moved to Britain in 1962, where he began a career producin…
Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer (died 2022)
Vladimir Hütt was an Estonian philosopher.
Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (died 1997)
Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1992, except from April to December 1981. A member of the Flemish Christi…
Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2013)
The Ethiopian Empire, historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, was a country that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It existed from the es…
Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5
Sada Abe was a Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, Kichizō Ishida , via strangulation on May 18, 1936, before cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying t…
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag
The House of Commons of Northern Ireland was the lower house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The upper house in the bicamera…
In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation bill
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development o…
Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication
John Perry Pardee was an American professional football player and head coach. He played as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). As a coach, he is the only head coac…
Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (died 2013)
Joen Pauli Højgaard Ellefsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1981 to 1985.
Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese technician, surveyor, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2012)
Charles Patrick Roberts is a retired American politician and journalist who served as a United States senator from Kansas from 1997 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Rober…
Pat Roberts, American captain, journalist, and politician
Reginald Stephen "Reggie, the Ruffian" Fleming was a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New Y…
Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2009)