Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
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)
William Alden Smith was a U.S. representative and U.S. senator from the state of Michigan. After the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, Smith chaired the Senate hearings into the disaste…
William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (born 1859)
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)
Margaret Brown, posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, and she…
Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (born 1867)
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski was a French-Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indic…
Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (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
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
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
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflicts. It was …
The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of the British Royal Air Force.
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…
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…
Air India (modern aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
The Ådalen shootings was a series of events in and around the sawmill district of Ådalen, Kramfors Municipality, Ångermanland, Sweden, in May 1931. During a protest on 14 May, five…
Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting
Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini survived several assassination attempts while head of government of Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.
Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by a Royal Italian Army firing squad for intent to kill Ben
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
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art De…
The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City