Costești Church Fire Kills 118, Mostly Schoolchildren, April 18, 1930

The 1930 Bago earthquake, the first of two major earthquakes in southern Burma, kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago. Date: May 5, 1930 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 5 📅 Events on this day in 1930 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1930First London Naval…

The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are murdered. Date: August 7, 1930 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 7 📅 Events on this day in 1930 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…

W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show. Date: December 7, 1930 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 7 📅 Events on…

A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services. Date: April 18, 1930 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 18 📅 Events on this day in 1930 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…