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'''1933''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXXXIII''') was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
*
January 3 -
Japanese troops occupy
Shanghai
*
January 5 - Construction of the
Golden Gate Bridge begins in
San Francisco Bay.
*
January 11 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith made the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
*
January 15 - Political violence has caused almost 100 deaths in Spain
*
January 17 - US Congress votes favorable for
Philippines independence, against the view of president Hoover
*
January 30 -
Edouard Daladier forms a government in
France
*
January 30 -
Adolf Hitler appointed
Chancellor of Germany by
President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
*
January 30 - The first airing of episode 1 of 2,956 episodes of the radio program ''
The Lone Ranger''.
February
*
February 4 - Mutiny starts on the Dutch
pantserschip Zeven Provincien.
*
February 6 - The
United States Constitution/Amendment Twenty 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
*
February 6-
February 7 7 - Officers on the ''USS Ramapo'' record 34 meters high sea-
wave in the Pacific
*
February 10 - The
New York City-based
Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first
singing telegram.
*
February 15 - In
Miami, Florida,
Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate
President of the United States President-elect
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead kills
Chicago, Illinois Mayor
Anton J. Cermak.
*
February 17 - The
magazine ''
Newsweek'' is published for the first time.
*
February 17 - The
Blaine Act ends
Prohibition in the
United States.
*
February 27 -
Germany's parliament building in
Berlin, the
Reichstag (building) Reichstag, is set on fire (see:
Reichstag fire).
March
*
March 1 -
Kyriakos Varvaressos becomes Deputy Governor to the
Bank of Greece
*
March 2 - The original film version of
King Kong (1933 film) ''King Kong'', starring
Fay Wray, premieres at
Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy Theater in
New York City.
*
March 3 -
Mount Rushmore National Memorial Mount Rushmore is dedicated.
*
March 4 -
American President Herbert Clark Hoover is succeeded by
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who in reference to the
Great Depression, gives his "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" inauguration speech.
*
March 4 -
Frances Perkins becomes
United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the
United States Cabinet.
*
March 4 - The
Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure -
Chancellor of Austria Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see
Austrofascism)
*
March 5 -
Great Depression:
President of the United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all
United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ended on
March 13).
*
March 5 - in German
German election, 1933 elections,
Nazism National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes
*
March 9 - Great Depression: The
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting
New Deal legislation.
*
March 10 -
Earthquake in
Long Beach, California kills 117 people.
*
March 12 -
Great Depression:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as
President of the United States. This was also the first of his "
Fireside Chats".
*
March 20 -
Dachau, the first
Nazism Nazi concentration camp, is completed - opened
March 22
*
March 23 - The ''
Reichstag (institution) Reichstag'' passes the
Enabling Act, making
Adolf Hitler dictator of
Germany.
*
March 27 - Japan leaves the
League of Nations
*
March 29 - HERTA was Born.
*
March 31 - The
Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
April
*
April 1 - The recently elected
Nazism Nazis under
Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in
Germany.
*
April 3 - Anti-monarchist rebellion in
Siam
*
April 4 - US
airship ''Akron'' crashes near
New York - 74 dead
*
April 5 -
International court in the
Hague decides that
Greenland belongs to
Denmark and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland.
Norway submits to the decision.
*
April 7 - Beer is legalized in the US 8 months before the full repeal of
Prohibition on December 5, 1933
*
April 11 - Aviator
William Lancaster takes off in England in an attempt to make a speed record to Cape. He vanishes (body is found
1962 in Sahara)
*
April 21 -
Nazi Germany outlaws
kosher ritual
shechita
*
April 23 - Japanese crown prince
Akihito born
*
April 26 -
Gestapo established.
*
April 26 - Editors of ''
Harvard Lampoon'' steal the
Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House. It is returned two days later
*
April 27 -
Stahlhelm organizations joins the
Nazism Nazi party
May
* May - Detection by
Karl Jansky of radio waves from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy reported
*
May 2 - First modern sighting of the
Loch Ness Monster.
*
May 2 - ''
Gleichschaltung'':
Adolf Hitler bans
trade unions.
*
May 8 -
Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week
hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes
*
May 10 -
Censorship: In
Germany, the
Nazis stage massive public
book burnings.
*
May 10 -
Paraguay declares war on
Bolivia
*
May 17 -
Vidkun Quisling and
Johan Bernhard Hjort form
Nasjonal Samling - the national-socialist party of
Norway.
*
May 18 -
New Deal: President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
*
May 26 -
Nazism Nazi party in
Germany introduces law to legalize
eugenics eugenic sterilization
*
May 27 - New Deal: The
Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the
Federal Trade Commission.
*
May 27 - The
Century of Progress world's fair opens in
Chicago, Illinois.
June
*
June 5 - The
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress abrogates the
United States' use of the
gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in
gold.
*
June 6 - The first
drive-in theater opened in
Camden New Jersey.
*
June 17 - In
Kansas City, Missouri,
Pretty Boy Floyd kills four unarmed
Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI agents and captured fugitive
Frank Nash in a failed attempt to free Nash. This becomes known as the
Union Station Massacre.
*
June 21 - All non-
Nazism Nazi parties forbidden in Germany
*
June 26 - American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine at Arlington Park racetrack near Chicago.
*
June 25 - Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegate convention in Berlin
July
*
July 4 -
Mohandas Gandhi sentenced to prison
*
July 14 - Forming new political parties forbidden in Germany.
*
July 22 -
Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world, traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours, and 45 minutes.
*
July 22 -
George Kelly "Machine-Gun" Kelly and
Albert Bates kidnap
Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200.000 ransom
August
*
August 14 - Loggers cause a
forest fire in the
Coast Range of
Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the
Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (971 km²).
*
August 30 - Assassination of
Theodore Lessing in Marienbad (
Mariánské Lázně),
Czechoslovakia
*
August 30 -
Air France begins operations with 250 planes.
September
*
September 3 -
Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain.
*
September 12 -
Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in
Bloomsbury, London, England Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the
nuclear chain reaction.
*
September 26 -
Tornado destroys the town of
Tampico in
Mexico.
October
*
October 1 - Failed assassination attempt against
Englebert Dolfuss only injures him seriously.
*
October 10 - A
United Airlines Boeing 247 United Airlines Chesterton Crash is destroyed near
Chesterton, Indiana by a bomb. This was the first proven case of air sabotage in commercial airline history.
*
October 12 - The
United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on
Alcatraz is acquired by the
United States Department of Justice, which plans to incorporate the island into its
United States Bureau of Prisons Bureau of Prisons as a federal
penitentiary.
*
October 16 - Germany announces intention to leave the
League of Nations - officially
*
October 17 -
Albert Einstein arrived in the
United States as a refugee from
Nazism NaziGermany.
November
*
November 4 - In
Paris, a burglar tries to rob an antique store wearing an armor suit but is captured.
*
November 8 -
Great Depression:
New Deal - US President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the
Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
*
November 11 -
Dust Bowl: In
South Dakota, a very strong
dust storm strips
topsoil from desiccated farmlands (this is just one of a series of disastrous dust storms that year).
*
November 16 - The
United States and the
Soviet Union establish formal
diplomacy diplomatic relations.
*
November 16 - President of
Brazil Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
December
*
December 5 - The
repeal of prohibition in the United States went into effect.
*
December 24 - Train crash in
Lagny,
France - over 200 dead
*
December 26 - The
Nissan Motors Nissan Motor Company was organized in
Tokyo,
Japan.
*
December 26 -
Frequency modulation FM radio is patented.
*
December 29 - Members of the
Iron Guard assassinate
Ion Duca Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of
Romania
Undated
*
British Interplanetary Society founded
* The
Toll House cookie chocolate chip cookie is invented by
Ruth Wakefield.
* The
Federal government of the United States United States Federal Government ends
Prohibition and outlaws
marijuana.
* Failed coup against
Franklin Delano Roosevelt in
United States (see
Smedley Butler)
*
London Transport London Passenger Transport Board founded.
*
Jimmie Angel becomes the first foreigner to see the
Angel Falls, they are named after him.
*
Nazi Germany forms the
Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy under Reich Interior Minister
Wilhelm Frick.
*
Holodomor took place in
Ukraine
Births
January
*
January 2 -
Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist and author
*
January 6 -
Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (d.
2003)
*
January 6 -
Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian, director, and writer
*
January 8 -
Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
*
January 14 -
Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d.
2003)
*
January 16 -
Susan Sontag, American author (d.
2004)
*
January 17 -
Dalida, French singer (d.
1987)
*
January 17 -
Sadruddhin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d.
2003)
*
January 18 -
John Boorman, American film director
*
January 23 -
Chita Rivera, American actress and dancer
*
January 25 -
Corazon Aquino,
President of the Philippines
February
*
February 8 -
Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
*
February 12 -
Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director and writer
*
February 13 -
Kim Novak, American actress
*
February 14 -
Madhubala, Indian actress
*
February 18 -
Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer and artist, wife of
John Lennon
*
February 21 -
Nina Simone, American singer (d.
2003)
*
February 22-
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
*
February 27 -
Raymond Berry, American football player
March
*
March 6 -
Ted Abernathy, baseball player (d.
2004)
*
March 7 -
Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d.
1998)
*
March 14 -
Michael Caine, English actor
*
March 14 -
Quincy Jones, American music producer and composer
*
March 15 -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
*
March 15 -
Roy Clark, American musician
*
March 16 -
Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
*
March 19 -
Philip Roth, American author
*
March 22 -
May Britt, Swedish actress
'''*
March 29 -
HERTA, Stubborn German Lady'''
April
*
April 1 -
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
April 5 -
Larry Felser, American sports columnist
*
April 6 -
Roy Goode, British legal academic
*
April 12 -
Montserrat Caballé, Catalan soprano
*
April 12 -
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. Senator
*
April 15 -
Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d.
1995)
*
April 16 -
Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
*
April 19 -
Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d.
1967)
*
April 25 -
Jerry Leiber, American composer
*
April 26 -
Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and comedienne
*
April 26 -
Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
April 29 -
Mark Eyskens,
Prime Minister of Belgium
May
*
May 3 -
James Brown (musician) James Brown, American musician
*
May 3 -
Steven Weinberg, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
May 7 -
Johnny Unitas, American football player (d.
2002)
*
May 10 -
Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
*
May 11 -
Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
*
May 20 -
Danny Aiello, American actor
*
May 21 -
Maurice André, French trumpeter
*
May 22 -
Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician
*
May 23 -
Joan Collins, English actress
*
May 26 -
Edward Whittemore, American writer and Central Intelligence agent (d.
1995)
*
May 29 -
Marc Carbonneau, Canadian terrorist
*
May 29 -
Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
June
*
June 1 -
Charles Wilson (politician) Charles Wilson, American politician
*
June 6 -
Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
June 8 -
Joan Rivers, American comedienne
*
June 13 -
Tom King (politician) Tom King, British politician
*
June 17 -
Harry Browne, American writer and Presidential candidate
*
June 19 -
Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (d.
1971)
*
June 23 -
Dave Bristol, baseball manager
*
June 26 -
Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
*
June 29 -
John Bradshaw (Theologian) John Bradshaw, American theologian and educator
July
*
July 7 -
Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
*July 7 -
David McCullough, American historian and author
*
July 8 -
Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d.
1982)
*
July 15 -
Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
*
July 15 -
Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d.
2003)
*
July 20 -
Buddy Knox, American singer
*
July 21 -
John Gardner, American novelist (d.
1982)
*
July 23 -
Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (d.
1991)
August
*
August 1 -
Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
*
August 10 -
Doyle Brunson, American poker player
*
August 14 -
Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate
*
August 16 -
Stuart Roosa, astronaut (d.
1994)
*
August 21 -
Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
*
August 23 -
Robert Curl, American chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate
*
August 29 -
Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
September-October
*
September 1 -
Ann Richards, Governor of Texas
*
September 2 -
Mathieu Kérékou,
President of Benin
*
September 9 -
Michael Novak, American philosopher and author
*
September 10 -
Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d.
2000)
*
September 17 -
Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d.
2003)
*
September 15 -
Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
*
September 25 -
Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
*
October 9 -
Peter Mansfield, British physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
November
*
November 3 -
Michael Dukakis, American politician and Presidential candidate
*
November 3 -
Amartya Sen, Indian economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate
*
November 19 -
Larry King, American talk show host
*
November 23 -
Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
December
*
December 1 -
Lou Rawls, American singer (d.
2006)
*
December 2 -
Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d.
2003)
*
December 3 -
Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate
*
December 6 -
Henryk Górecki, Polish composer
*
December 9 -
Morton Downey, Jr., American television personality (d.
2001)
*
December 20 -
Jean Carnahan, American politician
*
December 23 - Emperor
Akihito of Japan
*
December 26 -
Ugly Dave Grey, Australian television personality
Deaths
January-March
*
January 1 -
Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b.
1876)
*
January 3 -
Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (b.
1896)
*
January 5 -
Calvin Coolidge, 30th
President of the United States (b.
1872)
*
January 7 -
Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator (b.
1892)
*
January 31 -
John Galsworthy, English writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1867)
*
February 12 -
Henri Duparc, French composer (b.
1848)
*
February 15 -
Pat Sullivan (film producer) Pat Sullivan, Australian-born director and producer of animated films (b.
1887)
*
February 18 -
James J. Corbett, American boxer (b.
1866)
*
March 6 -
Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (assassinated) (b.
1873)
*
March 14 -
Balto, American sled dog
*
March 20 -
Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of
FDR (b.
1900)
*
March 26 -
Eddie Lang, American musician (b.
1902)
April-June
*
April 3 -
William A. Moffett, U.S. admiral (sinking of the USS Akron) (b.
1869)
*
April 22 -
Henry Royce, Englsih car manufacturer (b.
1863)
*
May 24 -
Percy C. Mather, missionary
*
May 26 -
Jimmie Rodgers (country singer) Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer (b.
1897)
*
June 2 -
Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b.
1878)
*
June 29 -
Roscoe Arbuckle
July-December
*
July 3 -
Hipólito Yrigoyen,
President of Argentina (b.
1852)
*
July 15 -
Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b.
1865)
*
July 15 -
Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (b.
1890)
*
October 5 -
Renée Adorée, French actress (b.
1898)
*
November 30 -
Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader (b.
1875)
*
December 4 -
Stefan George, German poet (b.
1868)
*
December 8 -
Karl Jatho, German airplane pioneer (b.
1873)
*
December 17 -
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso, 13th
Dalai Lama (b.
1876)
*
December 25 -
Francesc Macia Francesc Macià , President of the Generalitat (autonomous government of Catalonia) (b.
1859)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
Erwin Schrödinger,
Paul Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry - not awarded
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Physiology or Medicine -
Thomas Hunt Morgan
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace -
Norman Angell Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
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