Explore 3358 historical events from 1930–1939.
Bruno Guido Camillo Tesch was a German communist and member of the Young Communist League of Germany. At age 20, he was convicted of murder and executed in connection with the Alt…
Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in…
The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq was the Iraqi state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958. It was founded on 23 August 1921 as the Kingdom of Iraq, following the defeat of the…
The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day…
Marcos Alonso Imaz, nicknamed Marquitos, was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender. He was best known for his participation in Real Madrid's five European Cup conquests, ma…
Marcos Alonso Imaz, Spanish footballer (died 2012)
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she…
Joan Bakewell, English journalist and author
Perry Botkin Jr. was an American composer, producer, arranger, and musician.
Perry Botkin Jr
Vera Samuilovna Krepkina, née Kalashnikova, was a Soviet-Ukrainian track and field athlete. She competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Olympics. At all these Oly…
Vera Krepkina, Russian long jumper (died 2023)
Icarus Nestor Pappas, better known as Ike Pappas, was an American television journalist who worked as a CBS News correspondent for 25 years.
Ike Pappas, American journalist and actor (died 2008)
A wildfire, forest fire, brushfire or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Some natural forest ecosystems depend on wildfire. Mode…
Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn;…
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 and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the Haavara Agreement. The agreement was a major factor in…
There have been several Bible translations into Afrikaans, a language primarily spoken in South Africa and Namibia. The South African Bible Society released full Afrikaans Bibles …
The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the…
Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
Elizabeth Reid McCombs was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. New Zealand women gained the right…
Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird was an English cricketer and international cricket umpire. During his long umpiring career, he became a well regarded figure among players and the viewi…
Dickie Bird, English cricketer and umpire (died 2025)
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and singer. Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, and was known for her numerous publicity stunts, her…
Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (died 1967)
Edelmiro Atega Amante Sr., was a Filipino politician.
Edelmiro Amante, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Easley Rutland Blackwood Jr. was an American professor of music, concert pianist, composer, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of m…
Easley Blackwood, Jr
Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas was the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and, as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also know…
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi patriarch (died 2014)
John Anthony Llewellyn was a Welsh chemist and a NOAA aquanaut. In August 1967, Llewellyn was one of only two non-American astronaut candidates selected by NASA as part of NASA Ast…
Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist and astronaut (died 2013)
Annie Jean Easley was an African American computer scientist who contributed significantly to the beginning iterations of NASA's rocket technologies.
Annie Easley, American computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer (died 2011)
Leiber and Stoller were an American songwriting and record-production duo, consisting of lyricist Jerome Leiber and composer Michael Stoller. As well as many R&B and pop hits, they…
Jerry Leiber, American songwriter and producer (died 2011)
Joyce Ricketts was a right fielder who played from 1953 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). She batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (died 1992)
Carol Creighton Burnett is an American comedian, actress, singer and writer. Burnett has played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen. She has received numerous awards and…
Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer
Allen Leonard McCoy was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association from 1972 to 2023. The 2022–23 NBA s…
Al McCoy, American sports announcer (died 2024)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Libe…
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (died 2005)