Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions. He was also a member of the first Australian federal ministry, led by Edmund Barton.
Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (born 1858)
Andy Adams was an American writer of Western fiction.
Andy Adams, American author (born 1859)
Iván Persa was a Hungarian Slovene Roman Catholic priest and writer.
Iván Persa, Slovene-Hungarian priest and author (born 1861)
Alan Gray was an English organist and composer.
Alan Gray, English composer and organist (born 1855)
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (born 1860)
Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936.
Winifred Holtby, English novelist and journalist (born 1898)
Jean Béraud was a French painter renowned for his numerous paintings of life in Paris and especially its nightlife. His works depicting the Champs-Élysées, cafés, Montmartre and th…
Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (born 1849)
Marie Gutheil-Schoder was an important German operatic soprano.
Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (born 1874)
Gustave Loiseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.
Gustave Loiseau, French painter (born 1865)
Steele Rudd was the pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis an Australian author, best known for his short story collection On Our Selection.
Steele Rudd, Australian author (born 1868)
Gaston Lachaise was a French-born sculptor, active in America in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he is most noted for his robust female nudes such as his heroic Standing…
Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (born 1882)
Arthur Henderson was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the first Labour cabinet minister, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and, uniquely, served three separate …
Arthur Henderson, Scottish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who was the Attorney General and Solicitor G…
Edward Carson, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1854)
Charles Henry Buckius Demuth was an American painter who specialized in watercolors and turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.
Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (born 1883)
Arthur Simon Flegenheimer, known as Dutch Schultz, was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his fortune in organized crime-related activities,…
Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (born 1902)
Ernest Arthur Douglas Eldridge was a British racing driver who broke the world land speed record in 1924. His was the last land speed record set on an open road.
Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (born 1897)
Robert Holbrook Smith, also known as Dr. Bob, was an American physician and surgeon who cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson.
American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous
Ettore Marchiafava was an Italian physician, pathologist and neurologist. He spent most of his career as professor of medicine at the University of Rome. His works on malaria laid …
Ettore Marchiafava, Italian physician (born 1847)
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The United States Supreme Court ruled in A
A major strike broke out among African mineworkers in the Copperbelt Province of Northern Rhodesia on 29 May 1935 in protest against taxes levied by the British colonial administra…
A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police
An earthquake occurred on 31 May 1935 between 2:30 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Baluchistan Agency, close to the border with southern Afghanistan. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.…
A magnitude-7
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two opponents throwing punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. It is usually …
In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the underdog James J
The Grant Park Music Festival is a ten-week classical music concert series held annually in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It features the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Gran…
The first Grant Park Music Festival was held in Chicago's Grant Park.
The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States. A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, it is the largest of man…
On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell (pictured) became the first person to…