Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Jean Harlow was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-…
Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911)
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later exe…
Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (born 1893)
Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue was a French politician who served as President of France from 1924 to 1931.
Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (born 1863)
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet was a British novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to Lon…
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Colin Glenn Clive was a British theatre and film actor. Known for portraying individualistic, tumultuous characters which often mirrored his personal life, he is most famous for hi…
Colin Clive, British actor (born 1900)
Jacob Schick was an American military officer, inventor, and entrepreneur who patented an early electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the fath…
Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (born 1877)
Daniel Edward "Ned" Sawyer was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (born 1884)
Oliver Law was an African-American communist and labor organizer, who fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Having previously served in the United States Army, he trave…
Oliver Law, American commander (born 1899)
Julius L. Meier was an American businessman, civic leader, and politician in the state of Oregon. The son of the Meier & Frank department store founder, he would become a lawyer be…
Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (born 1874)
Julian Heward Bell was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his h…
Julian Bell, English poet and academic (born 1908)
Olga Hahn-Neurath was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher. She is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle. She was sister of the mathematician Hans Hahn.
Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1882)
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fas…
George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (born 1898)
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi, was an Italian radio-frequency engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based …
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
Edgar Arthur "Ted" McDonald was a cricketer who played for Tasmania, Victoria, Lancashire and Australia, as well as being an Australian rules footballer who played with Launceston …
Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1891)
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Se…
Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm tha
LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volu…
The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in
Nitrocellulose is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid.
Nitrate film being stored in a 20th Century Fox facility spontaneously combusted, destroying more than 40,000 reels of…
Fleischer Studios was an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until its acquisition by Pa…
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United S…
The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Mari
The early life, business career and political rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated on 28 May 1937, when he was summoned to Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands" and accept the office…
The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to
In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her …
Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a
A fast battleship was a battleship which in concept emphasised speed without undue compromise of either armor or armament. Most of the early World War I-era dreadnought battleships…
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Hormel Foods Corporation, doing business as Hormel Foods or simply Hormel, is an American multinational food processing company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. H…
The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop…
The Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, was a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes o…
The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable…