1933

About 1933


Year '1933' ('MCMXXXIII') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents
Events of 1933
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August - September
October
November
December
Undated
Births
January - February
March - April
May - June
July - August
September - October
November - December
Deaths
January - June
July - December
Nobel prizes
Ship events
See also
Notes
External links
Table of contents

Events of 1933


January



★ January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.

January 11 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.

January 15 - Political violence causes almost 100 deaths in Spain.

January 17 - US Congress votes favorably for Philippines independence, against the view of President Herbert Hoover.

January 28 - The word Pakistan comes into being and is recognized by the Pakistan Movement to press for freedom.

January 30


Edouard Daladier forms a government in France.


Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
((The first airing of ''The Lone Ranger''.

February


February 1 - Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the German People" in Berlin.

February 4 - Mutiny starts on the Dutch pantserschip Zeven Provincien.

February 6 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.

February 6-February 7 - Officers on the ''USS Ramapo'' record a 34-meter high sea-wave in the Pacific Ocean.

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 shot Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak.

February 17


★ The magazine ''Newsweek'' is published for the first time.


★ The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.

February 27 - Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire (see: Reichstag fire).

February 28 - Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in response to Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties.
Feb.6: Wave of 34m/112ft.

March


March 2 - The original film version of ''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 is dedicated.


★ A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honshū, Japan killing some 3,000.

March 4


★ American President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in reference to the Great Depression, gives his "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" inauguration speech. FDR is sworn in by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. It would also be the last time Inauguration Day in the United States would occur on March 4.


Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.


★ The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism).

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).


★ In German elections, National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes.

March 9 - Great Depression: The 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 15 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises from $53.84 to $62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains to date as the largest one-day percentage gain for the index.

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


April 1 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.

April 3 - Anti-monarchist rebellion in Siam (Thailand).

April 4 - US airship ''Akron'' crashes off the coast of New Jersey- leaves 73 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 U.S., eight months before the full repeal of Prohibition on December 5, 1933


Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service passed in Germany

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 the Sahara Desert).

April 21 - Nazi Germany outlaws kosher ritual shechita.

April 26


Gestapo established.


★ Editors of ''Harvard Lampoon'' steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House. It is returned two days later.

April 27


Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership's first shop outside London.


Stahlhelm organizations joins the 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.


★ ''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.


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 - Nazi party in Germany introduces law to legalize eugenic sterilization

May 27


★ New Deal: The Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.


★ The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
June


June 5 - The 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 opens in Camden, New Jersey.

June 13 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo) is established.

June 17 - In Kansas City, Missouri, Pretty Boy Floyd kills four unarmed 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-Nazi parties forbidden in Germany

June 25 - Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegate convention in Berlin

June 26 - American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine at Arlington Park racetrack near Chicago.
July


July 4 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi sentenced to prison.

July 14 - Forming new political parties forbidden in Germany.

July 20 - Vatican state secretary Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) signed an accord with Hitler.

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.


"Machine-Gun" Kelly and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom.
August - September


★ August - The start of the Simele massacre more than 3,000 killed.

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 3 - Alejandro Lerroux 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.


★ The ice cream cone is invented in Brooklyn, NY.
October


October 1 - Failed assassination attempt against Englebert Dolfuss seriously injures him.

October 10 - A United Airlines Boeing 247 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 Federal Bureau of Prisons as a federal penitentiary.

October 16 - Germany announces intention to leave the League of Nations - officially

October 17 - Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
November


November 5 - Spanish Basques voted for autonomy.

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.


★ President of Brazil Getulio Vargas names himself dictator

November 19 - General Elections in the Spanish Second Republic, victory by the parties of the right-wing.
December


December 5 - The 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition in the United States, went into effect.

December 21 - British Plastics Federation founded - oldest plastics federation in the world

December 24 - Train crash in Lagny, France - over 200 dead

December 26


★ The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan.


FM radio is patented.

December 29 - Members of the Iron Guard assassinate Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania
Undated


British Interplanetary Society founded

★ The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield.

★ The United States Federal Government ends Prohibition and outlaws cannabis.

★ Failed coup against Franklin Delano Roosevelt in United States (see Smedley Butler)

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.

★ The "Adelaide Concerto," a spurious work attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was published, as "edited" (actually composed) by Marius Casadesus.

Births


January - February


January 2 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist and author

January 6


Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (d. 2003)


Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian, director, and writer

January 8 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator

January 9 - Robert Garcia, American politician

January 14 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)

January 16 - Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)

January 17


Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)


Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)

January 18 - John Boorman, English film director

January 23 - Chita Rivera, American actress and dancer

January 25 - John Graham, President of the American Nuclear Society
- Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines

February 6 - Leslie Crowther, British TV comedian & game show host

February 7 - John Anderton, English footballer

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 17 - Craig Thomas, American Senator (d. 2007)

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 - April


March 6 - Ted Abernathy, baseball player (d. 2004)

March 7 - Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (d. 1998)

March 13 - Mike Stoller, American songwriter

March 14


Michael Caine, English actor


Quincy Jones, American music producer and composer


René Felber, Swiss Federal Councilor

March 15


Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice


Roy Clark, American musician

March 16 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist

March 19 - Philip Roth, American author

March 22 - May Britt, Swedish actress

April 1 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

April 5


Larry Felser, American sports columnist


Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)

April 6 - Roy Goode, British legal academic

April 12


Montserrat Caballé, Catalan soprano


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 24 - Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)

April 25 - Jerry Leiber, American composer

April 26


Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and comedienne


Ilkka Kuusisto, Finnish composer


Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

April 29 - Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
May - June


May 3


James Brown, American musician (d. 2006)


Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

May 4 - J. Fred Duckett, Texan Sports announcer and teacher (d. 2007)

May 7


Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002)


Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer and actress

May 10 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer

May 11 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader

May 21 - Maurice André, French trumpeter

May 22 - Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician

May 23 - Joan Collins, English actress

May 25 - Ray Spencer, English footballer

May 26 - Edward Whittemore, American writer and Central Intelligence agent (d. 1995)

May 29


Marc Carbonneau, Canadian terrorist


Helmuth Rilling, German conductor

June 1 - Charles Wilson, American politician

June 6 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

June 8 - Joan Rivers, American comedian

June 11 - Gene Wilder, American actor

June 14 - Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach

June 17 - Harry Browne, American writer and Presidential candidate (d. 2006)

June 19 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (d. 1971)

June 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor

June 23 - Dave Bristol, baseball manager

June 26 - Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor

June 29 - John Bradshaw, American theologian and educator
July - August


July 6 - Frank Austin, English footballer

July 7


Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner


David McCullough, American historian and author

July 8 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)

July 11 - Bob McGrath, American actor

July 15


Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist


Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)

July 20 - Buddy Knox, American singer (d. 1999)

July 21 - John Gardner, American novelist (d. 1982)

July 23 - Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (d. 1991)

July 26 - Kathryn Hays, American actress/Soap opera star

August 1 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian

August 2 - Tom Bell, English actor (d. 2006)

August 8 - Joe Tex, American soul singer (d. 1982)

August 10 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player

August 11 - Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (d. 2007)

August 14 - Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

August 15 - Jim Lange, American disc jockey and game show host

August 16


Julie Newmar, American actress


Stuart Roosa, astronaut (d. 1994)

August 21


Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano


Barry Norman, English film critic

August 23 - Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

August 25 - Tom Skerritt, American actor

August 29 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
September - October


September 1


Conway Twitty, country music artist (d. 1993)


Ann Richards, Governor of Texas (d. 2006)

September 2

September 3 - The Great Gyan Deo Mishra was born, Canadian Postal Legend


Mathieu Kérékou, President of Benin


Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor

September 9 - Michael Novak, American philosopher and author

September 10 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)

September 13 - Eileen Fulton, American actress/Soap opera star

September 17 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)

September 18 - Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach

September 15 - Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor

September 25 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster

September 26 - Donna Douglas, American actress

October 9 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

October 10 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)

October 17 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (d. 1985)

October 24


Reginald Kray, British gangster


Ronald Kray, British gangster


Norman Rush, American writer
November - December


November 3


Michael Dukakis, American politician and Presidential candidate


Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate

November 19 - Larry King, American talk show host

November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer

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 laureate

December 6 - Henryk Górecki, Polish composer

December 9 - Morton Downey, Jr., American television personality (d. 2001)

December 17 - Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (d. 2006)

December 20 - Jean Carnahan, American politician

December 23 - Emperor Akihito of Japan

December 26


Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality


Carroll Spinney, American puppeteer

Deaths


January - June


January 1 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876)

January 3


Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)


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 29 - Thomas Coward, ornithologist (b. 1867)

January 31 - John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

February 12 - Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)

February 15 - Pat Sullivan, Australian-born director and producer of animated films (b. 1887)

February 18 - James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)

March 1 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)

March 6 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (assassinated) (b. 1873)

March 14 - Balto, American sled dog

March 20 - Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1900)

March 26 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)

April 3 - William A. Moffett, U.S. admiral (sinking of the USS Akron) (b. 1869)

April 22 - Henry Royce, English car manufacturer (b. 1863)

May 24 - Percy C. Mather, missionary

May 26 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)

June 2 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)

June 29 - Fatty Arbuckle, American comedian (b. 1887)
July - December


July 3 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)

July 15


Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)


Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (b. 1890)

September 20 - Annie Besant, English women's rights activist, writer and orator.(b. 1847)

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 (b. 1876)

December 25 - Francesc Macià, President of the Generalitat (autonomous government of Catalonia) (b. 1859)

Nobel prizes



Physics - Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Chemistry - not awarded

Physiology or Medicine - Thomas Hunt Morgan

Literature - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

Peace - Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)

Ship events



List of ship launches in 1933

List of ship commissionings in 1933

List of ship decommissionings in 1933

See also



20th century

Notes


External links



★ http://www.1933key.com/ (Embracing History, Knowledge and Technology)

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