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1933 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

Events

January 3 - Japanese troops occupy Shanghai
January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
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 Paul von Hindenburg.
January 30 - The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time.
February 4 - Munity starts on the Dutch pantserschip Zeven Provincien.
February 5 - Prohibition ends in the United States — 1.5 million barrels (176,000 m³) of beer were drunk that day.
February 6 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
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-elect 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 25 - The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built aircraft carrier.
February 27 - Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire (see: Reichstag fire).
March 1 - Kyriakos Varvaressos becomes Deputy Governor to the Bank of Greece
March 3 - 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 5 - Great Depression: President 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 elections, National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes
March 9 - Great Depression: The United States 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 Nazi concentration camp, is completed - opened March 22
March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
March 27 - Japan leaves the League of Nations
March 31 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
April 1 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust.
April 1 - Gestapo begins operations
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 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 23 - Japanese crown prince Akihito born
April 27 - Stahlhelm organizations joins the Nazi party
May - Karl Jansky announces the detection of radio waves from the centre of the galaxy.
May 2 - First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
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 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 5 - The United States 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 21 - All non-Nazi parties forbidden in Germany
July 4 - Mohandas Gandhi sentenced to prison
July 14 - In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
July 20 - 500.000 people demonstrate against anti-Semitism in Hyde Park, London
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.
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, Czechoslovakia
August 30 - Air France begins operations with 250 planes.
September 3 - Alejandro Leroux forms a new government in Spain.
September 12 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
September 26 - Tornado destroys the town of Tampico in Mexico.
October 1 - Failed assassination attempt against Englebert Dolfuss only injures him seriously.
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 Bureau of Prisons as a federal penitentiary.
October 16 - Germany announces intention to leave the League of Nations - officially October 19
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 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 diplomatic relations.
November 16 - President of Brazil Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
December 24 - Train crash in Lagny, France - over 200 dead
December 26 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan.
December 26 - FM radio is patented.
December 29 - Members of the Iron Guard assassinate Ion Gheorghe Duca, president of Romania

British Interplanetary Society founded
Worst year of the Great Depression
The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield.
The United States Federal Government ends Prohibition and outlaws marijuana.

Year in topic

1933 in film
- Cavalcade
- 42nd Street
- March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) once again expresses interest in the Wizard of Oz books for a series of animated cartoons, but they once again failed to make a deal with creator Frank Baum
1933 in literature
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
- Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
- James Joyce's Ulysses allowed into U.S.
1933 in music
1933 in sports
- February 10 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1933 in television
- January 23 - W9XAL in Kansas City, Missouri begins broadcasting.
- January 24 - John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast on KMBC radio.
- February 2 - CBS suspends its television broadcasts

Births

January 6 - Emil Steinberger, cabaretist
January 6 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (d. 2003)
January 8 - Charles Osgood, journalist, commentator
January 14 - Stan Brakhage, filmmaker (d. 2003)
January 16 - Susan Sontag, author
January 17 - Dalida, French singer
January 18 - John Boorman, director
January 23 - Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
January 25 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
February 13 - Kim Novak, actress
February 18 - Yoko Ono, singer, artist, wife of John Lennon
February 21 - Nina Simone, singer
February 22- Katharine, Duchess of Kent.
February 26 - Godfrey Cambridge, actor (d. 1976)
March 14 - Michael Caine, actor
March 14 - Quincy Jones, music producer, composer
March 15 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
March 15 - Roy Clark, country musician
March 16 - Sandy Weill
March 19 - Philip Roth, author
March 22 - May Britt, Swedish actress
April 6 - Roy Goode, legal academic in the United Kingdom
April 19 - Jayne Mansfield, actress
April 25 - Jerry Leiber, composer
April 29 - Mark Eyskens, Belgian minister and Prime Minister
May 3 - James Brown, musician
May 7 - Johnny Unitas, American football star (d. 2002)
May 10 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer
May 11 - Louis Farrakhan, Black Muslim leader
May 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor
May 23 - Joan Collins, actress
May 29 - Marc Carbonneau, taxi driver and FLQ terrorist
May 29 - Edward Whittemore, American writer and CIA agent
June 1 - Charles Wilson, American politician
June 11 - Gene Wilder, actor
June 13 - Tom King, British politician
June 17 - Harry Browne, writer and United States Libertarian Party Presidential candidate.
June 19 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
July 7 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
August 1 - Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian
August 29 - Arnold Koller, member of the Swiss Federal Council
September 1 - Ann Richards, governor of Texas
September 2 - Mathieu Kérékou, President of Benin
September 10 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
November 3 - Michael Dukakis, US politician
November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
December 2 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
December 6 - Henryk Górecki, composer
December 20 - Jean Carnahan, US politician
December 23 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan

Deaths

January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy"
January 5 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States
January 7 - Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator. (b. 1892
January 31 - John Galsworthy, writer
February 15 - Pat Sullivan, director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
February 18 - James J. Corbett, boxer
March 6 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, wounded weeks earlier by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dies of his injuries
March 26 - Eddie Lang, jazz musician (b. 1902)
April 3 - Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, in the crash of the USS Akron
May 24 - Percy C. Mather, pioneer missionary to Eastern Turkestan
May 26 - Jimmie Rodgers, singer
June 2 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
July 3 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-1922, 1928-1930; b. 16 July 1852).
July 15 - Freddie Keppard, jazz musician (b. 1890)
October 5 - Renee Adoree, French actress
November 30 - Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader.
December 8 - Karl Jatho, German airplane pioneer.
December 25 - Francesc Macià, President of Generalitat, Autonomous government of Catalonia
Blind Blake, influential blues singer.

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Chemistry - not awarded
Medicine - Thomas Hunt Morgan
Literature - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Peace - Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)

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