1930

Events 1930s – Howard Hughes

20th Century, Events Decade, With Docu

Howard Hughes Documentary Events 1930s The NSDAP (Nazi Party) under Adolf Hitler wins the German federal election, March 1933 Hitler pulls Germany out of the League of Nations, but hosts the 1936 Summer Olympics to show his new Reich to the world as well as the supposed superior athleticism of his Aryan troops/athletes. Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1937–1940), attempts the appeasement of Hitler in hope of avoiding war by allowing the dictator to annex the Sudetenland (the German-speaking regions of Czechoslovakia) and later signing the Munich Agreement and promising constituents “Peace for our time“. Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) – The ruling Kuomintang and the rebel Chinese Communist Party fought a civil war for control of China. The Communists consolidated […]

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1939 Philip Marlowe Private Detective

Books, Culture, Literature, With Audio

Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler who was characteristic of the hardboiled crime fiction genre. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. Chandler’s early short stories, published in pulp magazines such as Black Mask and Dime Detective, featured similar characters with names like “Carmady” and “John Dalmas”, starting in 1933. Underneath the wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough private eye, Marlowe is quietly contemplative, philosophical and enjoys chess and poetry. While he is not afraid to risk physical harm, he does not dish out violence merely to settle scores. Morally upright, he is not fooled by the genre’s usual femmes fatales, such as Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep. […]

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The Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939)

War, With Docu

The Spanish Civil War was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicansand the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, and consisted of various socialist, communist, separatist, anarchist, and republican parties, some of which had opposed the government in the pre-war period. The opposing Nationalists were an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets and was variously viewed as class struggle, […]

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1938 disappearance Ettore Majorana

20th Century, Science

Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On 25 March 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory.

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1939 The Year Of Somewhere Over The Rainbow

20th Century, Populair

When surveying the music of the war years, where to begin? On April 30,1939, the New York World’s Fair opened its doors. Promoters called it “The World of Tomorrow,” and the exposition promised a look at scientific, technological, and consumer wonders never before seen. It had as its theme song “Dawn of a New Day,” a composition based on incomplete music left by George Gershwin before his untimely death in 1937. His brother Ira, along with composer Kay Swift, finished the number, with Ira contributing the lyrics. Given “The World of Tomorrow” theme, “Dawn of a New Day” doubtless seemed […]

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