Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL was a prominent British aristocrat and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape fro…
Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish-English fencer and businessman (born 1862)
David Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the country’s gentry and the miseries of the peasantry, boldly exposing…
David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (born 1862)
George Pearson Glen Kidston was a British motor racing driver and aviator who completed a record-breaking flight from Netheravon, Wiltshire to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1931. He …
Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (born 1899)
Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the "…
Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1858)
David Belasco was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for the stage. He launche…
David Belasco, American director, producer, and playwright (born 1853)
Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he r…
Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
Ernest Noel, FGS was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish seat of Dumfries Burghs from 1874 to 1886. He was chairman of the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company fr…
Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (born 1831)
Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1926 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate i…
Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (born 1866)
Willy Stöwer was a German artist, illustrator, and author during the Imperial Period. He is best known for nautical paintings and lithographs. Many of his works depict historical m…
Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (born 1864)
Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi was a Hejazi leader from the Banu Qatadah branch of the Banu Hashim clan who was the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 and, after proclaiming the Great …
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (born 1853–54)
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outb…
Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese medical doctor and bacteriologist (born 1851)
Lucie Lagerbielke was a Swedish author, painter and baroness who was known for her works on Western esotericism.
Lucie Lagerbielke, Swedish writer and painter (born 1865)
Clément Armand Fallières was a French statesman who was President of France from 1906 to 1913.
Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (born 1841)
Otto Mears was a Colorado railroad builder and entrepreneur who played a major role in the early development of southwestern Colorado.
Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born 1840)
Xiang Zhongfa was a Chinese socialist who was one of the early senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1880)
Charles-Nérée Beauchemin was a French Canadian regionalist poet and physician from Yamachiche, near Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He was part of Quebec's Le Terroir school of poetry.
Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (born 1850)
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish bishop. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala from 1914 to 1931, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is commemora…
Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribu…
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (born 1868)
Auguste-Henri Forel was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and former eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of …
Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (born 1848)
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art De…
New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened
The City of New York Police Department, also known as the New York City Police Department (NYPD), is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City. Established on May 23,…
New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he
Ådalen is the river valley of the Ångerman River, downstream Junsele, in Sweden. It often refers to the broad, densely populated, fjord-like mouth of the river, in Kramfors Municip…
Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration
Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia under Empress Zewditu between 1916 and 1930.
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
In 1930, a devastating fire destroyed the wooden church in Costești, a small town in Argeș County, Romania, and killed 118 people, mostly primary school and high school students, t…
A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after st