Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
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)
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a German military officer and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became Preside…
Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd president of Germany (born 1847)
Wilbert Robinson, nicknamed "Uncle Robbie", was an American catcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Or…
Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1863)
Hendrik Petrus Berlage was a Dutch architect and designer. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect, designed the Beurs van Berlage (born 1856)
Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and peo…
Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (born 1868)
Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David, was a Welsh Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and military veteran. He was knighted for his role in the First World War.
Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (born 1858)
James Allan ) was a New Zealand rugby union player who played eight games for the New Zealand national rugby union team, and was nicknamed the Taieri Giant. Allan played in the fir…
James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (born 1860)
Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo, known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist, and actor. He is famous for romantic ballads such as his signature tune…
Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist, and actor (born 1908)
Alcide Patrick Nunez, also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez, was an American jazz clarinetist. He was one of the first musicians of New Orleans to make audio recordings.
Alcide Nunez, American clarinet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (born 1884)
Sidney Myer was a Belarusian-born Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for founding Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.
Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (born 1878)
Sir Isidor George Henschel was a German-born British baritone, pianist, conductor, composer and academic teacher. First trained as a pianist, he was a concert singer who sometimes …
George Henschel, German-English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1850)
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
Roger Eliot Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more …
Roger Fry, English painter and critic (born 1866)
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 Blue Lotus is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècl…
The Blue Lotus, the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and noted for its…
A referendum on merging the posts of Chancellor and President was held in Nazi Germany on 19 August 1934, seventeen days after the death of President Paul von Hindenburg. The Germa…
A referendum supported the recent merging of the posts of chancellor and president of Germany, consolidating Adolf…
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the …
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
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
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
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
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