Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Frank Washington Jarvis was an American sprinter, the 1900 Olympic 100 m champion, and a triple jumper.
Frank Jarvis, American runner and triple jumper (born 1878)
William Muldoon was an American Greco-Roman Wrestling champion, a physical culturist, and the first chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. He once wrestled a match tha…
William Muldoon, American wrestler (born 1852)
Ahmet Haşim was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century.
Ahmet Haşim, Turkish poet and author (born 1884)
Dragutin Milivoj Domjanić was a Croatian poet. He is well known for his work of Domjanic and the poems Fala and Popevke sam slagal.
Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (born 1875)
Count Clary was a French sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in trap shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Par…
Justinien de Clary, French target shooter (born 1860)
Sir Henry Ralph Stanley Birkin, 3rd Baronet, known as Tim Birkin, was a British racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.
Tim Birkin, English racing driver and lieutenant (born 1896)
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 192…
Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian educator and politician, 19th President of Argentina (born 1852)
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, …
Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1887)
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predomi…
Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (born 1863)
Irving Babbitt was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known as the New Humanism, a significant influence on literary di…
Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (born 1865)
Freddie Keppard was an American jazz cornetist who once held the title of "King" in the New Orleans jazz scene. This title was previously held by Buddy Bolden and succeeded by Joe …
Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (born 1890)
Kaarle Krohn was a Finnish folklorist, professor and developer of the geographic-historic method of folklore research. He was born into the influential Krohn family of Helsinki. Kr…
Kaarle Krohn, Finnish historian and academic (born 1863)
Nishinoumi Kajirō III was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 30th yokozuna.
Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (born 1890)
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 began its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg
In Nazi Germany, transgender people were prosecuted, barred from public life, forcibly detransitioned, and imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. Though some factors, such a…
As part of Nazi Germany's persecution of transgender people, thousands of books taken from the Institute for Sexual Scie
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the…
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James Charles Rodgers was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1920s. Known as Jimmie Rodgers and widely regarded as the "Father of Count…
American singer Jimmie Rodgers (pictured) died at the Taft Hotel in New York City
Bernard "Benny" Rothman was a British political activist. He is known for organizing the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932, which led to the establishment of the National Parks…
Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom
A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership. A self…
In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviator and aviation pioneer who became one of the most celebrated figures of early flight.
Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviator and aviation pioneer who became one of the most celebrated figures of early flight.
Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first wom
The Cook County Jail, located on 96 acres in South Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, is operated by the Sheriff of Cook County. It is sometimes referred to as 26th and Cal or Hotel Cali…
Having been incarcerated at the Cook County Jail since his sentencing on October 24, 1931, mobster Al Capone is transfer
On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Col. Charles Lindbergh and his wife, aviator and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was murdered after being ab…
Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is also the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh-largest by popul…
In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which