Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Jason Miller was an American playwright and actor. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for his play That Championship Season, and was nominated fo…
Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (died 2001)
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered ar…
The Holocaust: The MS St
Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production and distribution company and the flagship namesake subsidia…
Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by a private foundation. It serves as the central collection a…
The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York
Plaek Phibunsongkhram, commonly known in English language sources as Phibun and Chomphon Por in Thai, was a Thai military officer and politician who served as the third prime minis…
Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country's third prime minister
Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Gehrig was renowned for his pr…
Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers…
Theodor Waigel is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He represented Neu-Ulm in the Bundestag from 1976 to 2002.
Theodor Waigel, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Finance
Jorge Fons Pérez was a Mexican film director.
Jorge Fons, Mexican director and screenwriter (died 2022)
William John Gell Hagerty was a British newspaper editor and the chairman emeritus of British Journalism Review.
Bill Hagerty, English journalist
Harvey Lee Yeary, known professionally as Lee Majors, is an American actor. He portrayed the characters of Heath Barkley on the American television Western series The Big Valley (1…
Lee Majors, American actor
Anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany comprised several laws that segregated the Jews from German society and restricted Jewish people's political, legal and civil rights…
Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises.
The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was thought to be buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and…
The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer born to Irish parents. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice, s…
Dusty Springfield, English singer and record producer (died 1999)
Ali Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in the 2026 Iran war. A member of …
Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran (died 2026)
Ray Peterson was an American pop singer who is best remembered for singing "Tell Laura I Love Her". He also scored numerous other hits, including "Corrine, Corrina" and "The Wonder…
Ray Peterson, American pop singer (died 2005)
Tarcisio Burgnich was an Italian football manager and player, who played as a defender.
Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (died 2021)
Sir Michael John Llewellyn-Smith is a retired British diplomat and academic. He served as Ambassador to Poland from 1991 to 1996 and Ambassador to Greece from 1996 to 1999. He is v…
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, English academic and diplomat
Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, was a British economic historian, author and crossbench life peer in the House of Lords. He is best known for his award-winning t…
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, English historian and academic (died 2026)
Dame Veronica Evelyn Sutherland, DBE, CMG is a former British career diplomat who served in the Diplomatic Service of the United Kingdom from 1965 until 1999, including a stint as …
Veronica Sutherland, English academic and British diplomat
Joyce Audrey Botterill, known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress. She appeared on American television in the late 1960s in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, where she em…
Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (died 2015)
Stanisław Jan Dziwisz is a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków from 2005 to 2016. He was created a cardinal in 2006. He was a long-time and infl…
Stanisław Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
Klaus Rinke was a German artist.
Klaus Rinke, German artist (died 2026)
Judith Marjorie Collins is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Awar…
Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was…
Amos Oz, Israeli journalist and author (died 2018)