Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905) and Yama: The Pit (1915), as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (190…
Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (born 1870)
Max Factor Sr., born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-American businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor. As a founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, he…
Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (born 1877)
John Stuart Hindmarsh was an English racing driver and aviator.
John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (born 1907)
Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later gener…
Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1911)
Charles Alfred Cruft was a British showman who founded the Crufts dog show. Cruft first became involved with dogs when he began to work at Spratt's, a manufacturer of dog biscuits.…
Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (born 1852)
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared …
Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (born 1900)
Bruno Jasieński was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, Catastrophist, and leader of the Polish Futurist movement in the interwar period. Jasieński was also a communist activist i…
Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author (born 1901)
Superman is a superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, first appearing in issue #1 of Action Comics, published in the United States on April 18, 1938. Super…
Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of DC Comics, made his debut in Action Comics #1, the first true super
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941. After World War I, as early aviation became an in…
During an exercise to demonstrate air power, United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft intercepted the Italian ocean
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Repr…
The House Un-American Activities Committee was established to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities b
The 1938 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg Battlefield for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The gathering inclu…
On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the…
The Essential Commodities Reserves Act 1938 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed in anticipation of the Second World War and allowed the Board of Trade …
The Essential Commodities Reserves Act, which allowed the British government to build up reserves of essential…
George VI was the King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from…
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom are crowned in Westminster Abbey
In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the Little…
Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in Decemb…
The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, Pub. L. 75–238, 50 Stat. 551, enacted August 2, 1937, was a United States Act that placed a tax on the sale of cannabis. It was the first national re…
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Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviator and aviation pioneer who became one of the most celebrated figures of early flight.
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean and disappear while attempting to…
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: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria
The Treaty of Saadabad was a non-aggression pact signed by Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan on 8 July 1937, and lasted for five years. The treaty was signed in Tehran's Saadabad …
Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
The Fox Film Corporation was an American independent company that produced motion pictures and was formed in 1915 by the theater "chain" pioneer William Fox. It was the corporate s…
The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline tha…
South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth (dependency) of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946. It was established following …
The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right t
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German commercial passe…
Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to do
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 German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco