Explore 4337 historical events from 1930–1939.
The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike began on May 9, 1934, when longshoremen in every U.S. West Coast port walked out. It lasted 83 days. Organized by the International Longshorem…
"Bloody Thursday": The police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
Sir Peter John Morris was an Australian surgeon and Nuffield professor of surgery at the University of Oxford. Morris was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, fou…
Peter Morris, Australian-English surgeon and academic (died 2022)
James Child Drury Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, which was broadcast …
James Drury, American actor (died 2020)
George Irving Shirley is an American operatic tenor, and was the first African-American tenor to perform a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
George Shirley, African-American tenor and educator
Richard Dorian “Dickie” Goodman was an American musician and record producer. He is best known for inventing and using the technique of the "break-in", an early precursor to sampli…
Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1989)
George Masangkay Canseco was a Filipino composer and former politician. He composed numerous popular Filipino songs.
George Canseco, Filipino composer and producer (died 2004)
Engelbert Zaschka was a German chief engineer, chief designer and inventor. Zaschka is one of the first German helicopter pioneers and he is a pioneer of flying with muscle power a…
Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters…
USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying aircraft carrier", carrying up to five single-seat Curtiss F…
The rigid airship USS Macon surprised the USS Houston near Clipperton Island with a mail delivery for President…
Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 census, it is the state's most populous city. L…
Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters…
The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike began on May 9, 1934, when longshoremen in every U.S. West Coast port walked out. It lasted 83 days. Organized by the International Longshorem…
West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor…
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…
The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
D. Jayakanthan, popularly known as JK, was an Indian writer, journalist, orator, filmmaker, critic and activist. Born in Cuddalore, he dropped out of school at the age of 9 and wen…
Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (died 2015)
Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA …
Shirley MacLaine, American actress, singer, and dancer
Peter James McParland was a Northern Irish footballer who played as an outside left. He was the last surviving member of the Aston Villa team which won the 1957 FA Cup, in which ga…
Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer and manager
The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of government of Germany. The chancellor is elected by the Bundestag on…
Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast…
The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
The Soap Box Derby is a youth-oriented gravity racer event founded in 1934 in the United States by Myron Scott, employed by the Dayton Daily News, and preceded by events such as Ki…
The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
William Maldon Woodfull was an Australian cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s. He captained both Victoria and Australia, and was best known for his dignified and moral conduct during …
Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissol…
The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
Lois Duncan Steinmetz, known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist. She is best known for her young-adult novels, and has been credited by historia…
Lois Duncan, American journalist and author (died 2016)
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as president from 2001 to 2011.
Pedro Pires, Cape Verdean politician, 3rd President of Cape Verde
Jeremiah Patrick Lordan was an English songwriter, composer and singer. He had three hit singles on the UK Singles Chart before focusing purely on songwriting. Amongst his songwrit…
Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter (died 1995)
Donald Hamilton McKenney was a Canadian ice hockey forward and coach. He played in the National Hockey League between 1954 and 1968 with five teams, mostly with the Boston Bruins. …
Don McKenney, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)
In September 1934, a violent typhoon caused tremendous devastation in Japan, leaving more than 3,000 people dead in its wake. Dubbed the Muroto typhoon , the system was first ident…
A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people.