Explore 2180 historical events from 1930–1939.
Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold …
Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (born 1896)
Ezra Hasbrouck Fitch was an American real estate developer and hobbyist outdoorsman. He bought into and later fully owned the company that became Abercrombie & Fitch.
Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (born 1866)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the…
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (born 1860)
John Mackenzie Moore was a Canadian architect and politician who served as the mayor of London, Ontario, from 1926 to 1927. An apprentice of William Robinson and Thomas Henry Tracy…
John Mackenzie Moore, Canadian architect (b
Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th prime minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930. He was a dominant fi…
Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1856)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlo…
Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859)
Leopold von Auer was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers.
Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1845)
Leonora M. Kearney Barry was an Irish-American labor activist. As the only woman to hold national office within the Knights of Labor, she brought attention to the conditions of wor…
Leonora Barry, Irish-born American social activist (born 1849)
Sir Robert Stout was a New Zealand politician who was the 13th premier of New Zealand on two occasions in the late 19th century, and later Chief Justice of New Zealand. He was the …
Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1844)
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before movi…
Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (born 1878)
Pavlos Karolidis or Karolides was a Greek historian who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian and academic (born 1849)
John Riegel DeWitt was an American athlete. He played college football for Princeton from 1901 to 1903 and was selected as an All-American in 1902 and 1903. He also competed in the…
John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (born 1881)
Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist and optician.
Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Hans Max Gamper-Haessig, commonly known as Joan Gamper, was a Swiss-born football executive and versatile athlete. He founded football clubs in Switzerland and Spain, most notably …
Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (born 1877)
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst C
The 1930 Salmas earthquake occurred on 7 May at 01:34:26 IRST in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The earthquake, which was among Iran's largest, measured 7.1 on the moment magnitud…
An earthquake struck northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, killing up to 3,000 people
Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.
English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
The Chrysler Building is a 1,046-foot-tall (319 m), Art Deco skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of …
Standing at 1,047 ft (319 m), New York City's Chrysler Building opened as the world's tallest building before it was sur
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the first FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. FIFA, football's i…
The first FIFA World Cup was opened in Uruguay.
Montevideo, is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. As of the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,287,452, making up about 36.8% of the country's total populatio…
In Montevideo, the Uruguay national football team (team pictured) won the inaugural FIFA World Cup, defeating…