Explore 4336 historical events from 1930–1939.
John Thomson was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Celtic and the Scotland national football team. He died as a result of an accidental collision with Rangers pl…
John Thomson, Scottish footballer (born 1909)
Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. He was President of the Mo…
Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1869)
Salvatore Maranzano, nicknamed Little Caesar, was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later wou…
Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (born 1886)
Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery.
Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (born 1882)
Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.
Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (born 1856)
ʿUmar al-Mukhtār Muḥammad bin Farḥāt al-Manifī, called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was a Libyan revolutionary and Imam who led…
Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (born 1862)
Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen was an Irish artist who mainly worked in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits …
William Orpen, Irish artist (born 1878)
Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1865)
General Sir John Monash was an Australian military commander of the First World War and a civil engineer. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly af…
John Monash, Australian general and engineer (born 1865)
Ernst Didring was an early 20th-century author who wrote mainly of life in his home country of Sweden.
Ernst Didring, Swedish author (born 1868)
Alfons Maria Jakob was a German neurologist who worked in the field of neuropathology.
Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (born 1884)
Leo Lesser Ury was a German impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Lesser Ury, German painter (born 1861)
Ådalen is the river valley of the Ångerman River, downstream Junsele, in Sweden. It often refers to the broad, densely populated, fjord-like mouth of the river, in Kramfors Municip…
Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration
Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia under Empress Zewditu between 1916 and 1930.
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures…
Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1847)
Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler's works, which include psycho…
Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (born 1862)
Charles Albert Comiskey, nicknamed "Commy" or "the Old Roman", was an American professional baseball first baseman, manager, and team owner. He played 13 seasons in the American As…
Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (born 1859)
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…
New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened
The City of New York Police Department, also known as the New York City Police Department (NYPD), is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City. Established on May 23,…
New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he
Alphonse Gabriel Capone, sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder an…
American gangster Al Capone was convicted on five counts of income-tax evasion.
The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey, with the Washington Heights neighborh…
The George Washington Bridge (pictured), connecting New York City to Fort Lee, New Jersey, and today the world's…
In 1930, a devastating fire destroyed the wooden church in Costești, a small town in Argeș County, Romania, and killed 118 people, mostly primary school and high school students, t…
A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after st
The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United…
The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting s
The Independence Producers were a minor league baseball team based in Independence, Kansas, United States, that played from 1921 to 1925 and from 1928 to 1932. From 1921 to 1924, t…
The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas