Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Ole Evinrude, born Ole Andreassen Aaslundeie was an American entrepreneur, known for the invention of the first outboard motor with practical commercial application.
Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (born 1877)
Mary Emma Byrd was an American astronomer and educator. She is considered a pioneer astronomy teacher at college level. She was also an astronomer in her own right, determining com…
Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (born 1849)
François Coty was a French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts. He was the founder of the Coty perfume company, today a multinational. He …
François Coty, French businessman, founded Coty (born 1874)
Zenas Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reaso…
Winsor McCay, American cartoonist, animator, producer, and screenwriter (born 1871)
Leila Marie Koerber, known professionally as Marie Dressler, was a Canadian-born stage and screen actress, script editor, writer, and comedian. She was popular in Hollywood in earl…
Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1868)
John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police station…
John Dillinger, American gangster (born 1903)
Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934. Having served as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he asce…
Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (born 1892)
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian …
Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (born 1888)
Louis Joseph Tancred was a South African cricketer who played in 14 Test matches from 1902 to 1913, including three as captain.
Louis Tancred, South African cricketer and pilot (born 1876)
Joseph George Didier "Cannonball" Pitre was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Nicknamed "Cannonball," he was renowned for having one of the hardest shots during his playin…
Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1883)
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…
During a strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company in Toledo, a fight began between nearly 10,000 American strikers
The Australian Eastern Mission (AEM) was a 1934 diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia led by Australian deputy prime minister John Latham. The mission was the first such offi…
The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the N…
German chancellor Adolf Hitler began a purge of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party and other political rivals, exec
The Geheime Staatspolizei, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring
The German Labour Front was the national labour organization of the Nazi Party, which replaced the various independent trade unions in Germany during the process of Gleichschaltung…
Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front
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…
Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg
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…
Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able
The German Student Union from 1919 until 1945, was the merger of the general student committees of all German universities, including Danzig, Austria and the former German universi…
The Deutsche Studentenschaft attack Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the puppet government of Norway during the country's occupatio…
Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military commander and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as regent of Finla…
Finnish cavalry general C
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's ind…
Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitiv…
Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1933 was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The government bought…
The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for sl
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief an…
President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the predecessor of the Feder