Explore 942 historical events from 1930–1939.
Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s …
Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (born 1848)
Josef Suk was a Czech composer, violinist, and Olympic silver medalist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married.
Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (born 1874)
Arthur Freiherr Arz von Straußenburg was an Austro-Hungarian colonel general and last Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. At the outbreak of the First World Wa…
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general (born 1857)
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The United States Supreme Court ruled in A
A major strike broke out among African mineworkers in the Copperbelt Province of Northern Rhodesia on 29 May 1935 in protest against taxes levied by the British colonial administra…
A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police
An earthquake occurred on 31 May 1935 between 2:30 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Baluchistan Agency, close to the border with southern Afghanistan. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.…
A magnitude-7
Zveno, Politicheski krag "Zveno", officially Political Circle "Zveno" was a Bulgarian political organization that was founded in 1930 by Bulgarian politicians, intellectuals and Bu…
Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria
The Loch Ness Monster, known affectionately as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often describe…
The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mai
Bank robbery is the criminal act of stealing from a bank, specifically while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence. This refers to …
American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana
The Toledo Auto-Lite strike was a strike by a federal labor union of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to…
The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Gu
The Municipality of Callander is a township in central Ontario, Canada, located at the southeast end of Lake Nipissing in the Almaguin Highlands region of Parry Sound District. The…
Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quin
Vincent Brian Hill was an English traditional pop singer, best known for his cover version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune "Edelweiss" (1967), which reached No. 2 on the U…
Vince Hill, English singer-songwriter (died 2023)
The 1934 Latvian coup d'état known in Latvia also as the 15 May Coup or Ulmanis' Coup, was a self-coup by the veteran Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis against the parliamentary system…
A self coup by prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis succeeded in Latvia, suspending its constitution and dissolving its Saeima
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. census. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloo…
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens
Robert Colin Stigwood was an Australian music entrepreneur, film producer, and impresario, long based in the United Kingdom. He was best known for managing musicians such as Cream,…
Robert Stigwood, Australian producer and manager (died 2016)
Barrie John Unsworth is an Australian former politician, representing the Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991. He served as the 36th Premier from Jul…
Barrie Unsworth, Australian politician, 36th Premier of New South Wales
Vicar, a pseudonym for Víctor José Arriagada Ríos, was a Chilean cartoonist, known for his prolific career drawing Disney comics.
Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (died 2012)
Donald Kirshner was an American music publisher, music consultant, rock music producer, talent manager, and songwriter. Dubbed "the Man with the Golden Ear" by Time, he was best kn…
Don Kirshner, American songwriter and producer (died 2011)
Sir Peter John Morris was an Australian surgeon and Nuffield professor of surgery at the University of Oxford. Morris was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, fou…
Peter Morris, Australian-English surgeon and academic (died 2022)
James Child Drury Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, which was broadcast …
James Drury, American actor (died 2020)
George Irving Shirley is an American operatic tenor, and was the first African-American tenor to perform a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
George Shirley, African-American tenor and educator
Richard Dorian “Dickie” Goodman was an American musician and record producer. He is best known for inventing and using the technique of the "break-in", an early precursor to sampli…
Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1989)
George Masangkay Canseco was a Filipino composer and former politician. He composed numerous popular Filipino songs.
George Canseco, Filipino composer and producer (died 2004)
D. Jayakanthan, popularly known as JK, was an Indian writer, journalist, orator, filmmaker, critic and activist. Born in Cuddalore, he dropped out of school at the age of 9 and wen…
Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (died 2015)