Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Pavlos Karolidis or Karolides was a Greek historian who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian and academic (born 1849)
John Riegel DeWitt was an American athlete. He played college football for Princeton from 1901 to 1903 and was selected as an All-American in 1902 and 1903. He also competed in the…
John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (born 1881)
Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist and optician.
Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Hans Max Gamper-Haessig, commonly known as Joan Gamper, was a Swiss-born football executive and versatile athlete. He founded football clubs in Switzerland and Spain, most notably …
Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (born 1877)
Launceston Elliot was a British weightlifter, and the first athlete representing the United Kingdom to become an Olympic champion.
Launceston Elliot, Scottish wrestler and weightlifter (born 1874)
Charles Bannerman was an English-born Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he represented Australia in three Test matches between 1877 and 1879. At the domestic level, he …
Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1851)
Tom Norman, born Thomas Noakes, was an English businessman, a showman, and the last exhibitor of Joseph Merrick, who was known as the "Elephant Man". Among Norman's later exhibits …
Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (born 1860)
Frankie Campbell was an Italian-American boxer who fought professionally as a heavyweight. He won 33 of his 40 career fights, losing four, drawing twice, and fighting to a no-conte…
Frankie Campbell, American boxer (born 1904)
Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations o…
Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1883)
William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken…
William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (born 1844)
Peeter Siegfried Nikolaus Põld was an Estonian pedagogy specialist, school director, and politician, and the first Estonian Minister of Education. He was born in Puru, Kreis Wierla…
Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (born 1878)
Robert Means Thompson was a United States Navy officer, business magnate, philanthropist and a president of the American Olympic Association. He is the namesake of the destroyer US…
Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (born 1849)
Milton George Gustavus Sills was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.
Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (born 1882)
Gombojab Tsybikov was a Russian explorer of Tibet from 1899 to 1902. Tsybikov specialized in ethnography, Buddhist Studies, and after 1917 was an important educator and statesman i…
Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (born 1873)
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst C
The 1930 Salmas earthquake occurred on 7 May at 01:34:26 IRST in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The earthquake, which was among Iran's largest, measured 7.1 on the moment magnitud…
An earthquake struck northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, killing up to 3,000 people
Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.
English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
The Chrysler Building is a 1,046-foot-tall (319 m), Art Deco skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of …
Standing at 1,047 ft (319 m), New York City's Chrysler Building opened as the world's tallest building before it was sur
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the first FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. FIFA, football's i…
The first FIFA World Cup was opened in Uruguay.
Montevideo, is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. As of the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,287,452, making up about 36.8% of the country's total populatio…
In Montevideo, the Uruguay national football team (team pictured) won the inaugural FIFA World Cup, defeating…
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the superior court in the Judiciary of New York. It is vested with unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction, although in many countie…
New York Supreme Court judge Joseph Force Crater disappeared in Manhattan, in a case that was never solved.
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 192…
Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu.