Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
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)
The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike began on May 9, 1934, when longshoremen in every U.S. West Coast port walked out. It lasted 83 days. Organized by the International Longshorem…
West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor…
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the countr…
The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA …
Shirley MacLaine, American actress, singer, and dancer
Peter James McParland was a Northern Irish footballer who played as an outside left. He was the last surviving member of the Aston Villa team which won the 1957 FA Cup, in which ga…
Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer and manager
Lois Duncan Steinmetz, known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist. She is best known for her young-adult novels, and has been credited by historia…
Lois Duncan, American journalist and author (died 2016)
Luis Ernesto Aparicio Montiel, nicknamed "Little Louie", is a Venezuelan former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop from 1956 to 1…
Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan-American baseball player
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as president from 2001 to 2011.
Pedro Pires, Cape Verdean politician, 3rd President of Cape Verde
Jeremiah Patrick Lordan was an English songwriter, composer and singer. He had three hit singles on the UK Singles Chart before focusing purely on songwriting. Amongst his songwrit…
Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter (died 1995)
Donald Hamilton McKenney was a Canadian ice hockey forward and coach. He played in the National Hockey League between 1954 and 1968 with five teams, mostly with the Boston Bruins. …
Don McKenney, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)
Laura Betti was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pas…
Laura Betti, Italian actress (died 2004)
Sir Henry Cooper was a British professional boxer. He was undefeated in British and Commonwealth heavyweight championship contests for twelve years and held the European heavyweigh…
Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster (died 2011)
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano is a Mexican politician and civil engineer. A prominent social-democrat and the son of 51st president of Mexico Lázaro Cárdenas, he is a former Head o…
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
Shirley Valerie Horn was an American jazz singer and pianist. She collaborated with many jazz musicians including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen…
Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (died 2005)
Georges Moustaki was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Greek-Jewish origin. He wrote about 300 songs for some of the most popular singers in France, including Édith Piaf, Dal…
Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the Four Seasons. He is…
Frankie Valli, American singer and actor
Aimé Henri Konan Bédié was an Ivorian politician. He was President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999, and formerly President of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democ…
Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 2023)
Sir Ransley Victor Garland KBE, usually known as Vic Garland, was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1981, represen…
Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs (died 2022)
Richard Craig "Dick" Shelby is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a…
Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician
Leonard Hubert "Lennie" Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann is a senior South African–British judge. Currently, he serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong; h…
Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, South African-English lawyer and judge
Alan Bennett is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and honours including four BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and tw…
Alan Bennett, English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist