1933

Published on Thursday, March 13th 2008. Edited by Far Soycabrun, Austin, United States.

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

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1930 1931 1932 – 1933 – 1934 1935 1936

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

Events of 1933

January

5 January: Golden Gate Bridge begun.

5 January – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
11 January – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
15 January – Political violence causes almost 100 deaths in Spain.
17 January – US Congress votes favorably for Philippines independence, against the view of President Herbert Hoover.
28 January – The word Pakistan comes into being and is recognized by the Pakistan Movement to press for freedom.
30 January
Edouard Daladier forms a government in France.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
The Lone Ranger debuts on radio.

17 January: Vote on Philippines.

February

1 February – Adolf Hitler gives his “Proclamation to the German People” in Berlin.
4 February – Mutiny starts on the Dutch pantserschip De Zeven Provinciën.
6 February – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
6 February-7 February – Officers on the USS Ramapo record a 34-meter high sea-wave in the Pacific Ocean.
9 February – The Oxford Union approves a resolution stating, “That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and country.”
10 February – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
15 February – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
17 February
The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
27 February – Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire (see: Reichstag fire).
28 February – Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in response to Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties.

Feb.6: Wave of 34m/112ft.

March

2 March – The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.
3 March
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.
A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honshū, Japan killing some 3,000.
4 March
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, and the 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).
5 March
Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the ‘holiday’ ended on 13 March).
In German elections, National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes.
9 March – Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
10 March – Earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 117 people.
12 March – 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”.
15 March
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.
Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
20 March – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed – opened 22 March.
23 March – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
24 March – Jews call for a boycott of German goods.
27 March – Japan leaves the League of Nations.
31 March – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.

April

1 April – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
3 April – Anti-monarchist rebellion in Siam (Thailand).
4 April – US airship Akron crashes off the coast of New Jersey- leaves 73 dead.
5 April
International court in the Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. Norway submits to the decision.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a National Emergency and makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold.
7 April
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
11 April – 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).
19 April – The United States officially goes off the gold standard.
21 April – Nazi Germany outlaws kosher ritual shechita.
26 April
Gestapo established.
Editors of Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House. It is returned two days later.
27 April
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

2 May
First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
3 May – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to be named director of the United States Mint.
5 May – Detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy is reported in the New York Times. The discovery leads to the birth of radio astronomy.
8 May – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes
10 May
Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
17 May – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling – the national-socialist party of Norway.
18 May – New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
26 May – Nazi party in Germany introduces law to legalize eugenic sterilization
27 May
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.
Walt Disney’s classic Silly Symphony cartoon The Three Little Pigs is first released.

June

5 June – 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.
6 June – The first drive-in theatre opens in Camden, New Jersey.
June 6 – AnnaMae Marie Flynn born in Philadelphia, PA
June 12 – London Economic Conference
June 12 – Anneliese Marie Frank born in Germany
13 June – German Secret State Police (Gestapo) is established (but see April, above).
17 June – 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.
21 June – All non-Nazi parties forbidden in Germany
25 June – Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegate convention in Berlin
26 June – American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine at Arlington Park racetrack near Chicago.

July

4 July – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi sentenced to prison.
6 July – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
14 July – Forming new political parties forbidden in Germany.
20 July – Vatican state secretary Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) signed an accord with Hitler.
22 July
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.
24 July – Several members of the Barrow Gang are injured or captured during a running battle with local police near Dexter, Iowa.

August – September

August – The start of the Simele massacre more than 3,000 killed.
1 August – The Blue Eagle emblem of the National Recovery Administration is displayed publicly for the first time.
14 August – 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).
25 August – Diexi earthquake shook Mao County, Sichuan, China and killed 9,000 people.
30 August – Assassination of Theodor Lessing in Marienbad (Mariánské Lázně), Czechoslovakia
30 August – Air France begins operations with 250 planes.
3 September – Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain.
12 September – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
26 September
Tornado destroys the town of Tampico in Mexico.

October

1 October – Failed assassination attempt against Englebert Dolfuss seriously injures him.
10 October – 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.
12 October – 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.
16 October – Germany announces intention to leave the League of Nations – officially
17 October – Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

November

5 November – Spanish Basques voted for autonomy.
8 November – 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.
11 November – 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).
16 November
The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
President of Brazil Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
19 November – General Elections in the Spanish Second Republic, victory by the parties of the right-wing.

December

5 December – The 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition in the United States, went into effect.
21 December – British Plastics Federation founded – oldest plastics federation in the world
24 December – Train crash in Lagny, France – over 200 dead
26 December
The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan.
FM radio is patented.
29 December – 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 “Adélaïde Concerto,” a spurious work attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was published, as “edited” (actually composed) by Marius Casadesus.
Children and Young Persons Act 1933 is passed.

Births

1933 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar 1933 MCMXXXIII

Ab urbe condita 2686

Armenian calendar 1382 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԲ

Bahá'í calendar 89 – 90

Berber calendar 2883

Buddhist calendar 2477

Burmese calendar 1295

Byzantine calendar 7441 – 7442

Chinese calendar 壬申年十二月初六日 (4569/4629-12-6)

— to —

癸酉年十一月十五日 (4570/4630-11-15)

Coptic calendar 1649 – 1650

Ethiopian calendar 1925 – 1926

Hebrew calendar 5693 – 5694

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 1988 – 1989

- Shaka Samvat 1855 – 1856

- Kali Yuga 5034 – 5035

Holocene calendar 11933

Iranian calendar 1311 – 1312

Islamic calendar 1351 – 1352

Japanese calendar Shōwa 8 (昭和8年)

Korean calendar 4266

Thai solar calendar 2476

January – February

2 January – Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist and author
6 January
Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (d. 2003)
Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian, director, and writer
8 January – Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
9 January – Robert Garcia, American politician
14 January – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
16 January – Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)
17 January
Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
18 January – John Boorman, English film director
23 January – Chita Rivera, American actress and dancer
25 January
John Graham, President of the American Nuclear Society
Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
6 February – Leslie Crowther, British TV comedian & game show host (d. 1996)
7 February – John Anderton, English footballer
8 February – Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
12 February – Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director and writer
13 February – Kim Novak, American actress
14 February – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
17 February – Craig Thomas, American Senator (d. 2007)
18 February – Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer and artist, wife of John Lennon
21 February – Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
22 February – Katharine, Duchess of Kent
27 February – Raymond Berry, American football player

March – April

6 March – Ted Abernathy, baseball player (d. 2004)
7 March – Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (d. 1998)
13 March – Mike Stoller, American songwriter
14 March
Michael Caine, English actor
Quincy Jones, American music producer and composer
René Felber, Swiss Federal Councilor
15 March
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Roy Clark, American musician
16 March – Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
19 March – Philip Roth, American author
22 March – May Britt, Swedish actress
1 April – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
5 April
Larry Felser, American sports columnist
Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)
6 April – Roy Goode, British legal academic
12 April
Montserrat Caballé, Catalan soprano
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. Senator
15 April – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
16 April – Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
18 April – Michael Bradshaw, British Actor
19 April – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
24 April – Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
25 April – Jerry Leiber, American composer
26 April
Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and comedienne
Ilkka Kuusisto, Finnish composer
Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
29 April – Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium

May – June

3 May
James Brown, American musician (d. 2006)
Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
4 May – J. Fred Duckett, Texan Sports announcer and teacher (d. 2007)
7 May
Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002)
Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer and actress
10 May – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
11 May – Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
21 May – Maurice André, French trumpeter
22 May – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (D. 1996 )
23 May – Joan Collins, English actress
25 May – Ray Spencer, English footballer
26 May – Edward Whittemore, American writer and Central Intelligence agent (d. 1995)
29 May
Marc Carbonneau, Canadian terrorist
Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1 June – Charles Wilson, American politician
6 June – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
8 June – Joan Rivers, American comedian
11 June – Gene Wilder, American actor
14 June – Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
17 June
Harry Browne, American writer and Presidential candidate (d. 2006)
Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (d. 1970)
19 June – Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (d. 1971)
20 June – Danny Aiello, American actor
23 June – Dave Bristol, baseball manager
26 June – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
29 June – John Bradshaw, American theologian and educator

July – August

6 July – Frank Austin, English footballer
7 July
Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
David McCullough, American historian and author
8 July – Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
11 July – Bob McGrath, American actor
15 July
Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
17 July – Bruce Wells, boxer/actor
20 July
Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize winning and National Book Award winning author
Buddy Knox, American singer (d. 1999)
21 July – John Gardner, American novelist (d. 1982)
23 July – Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (d. 1991)
26 July – Kathryn Hays, American actress/Soap opera star
1 August
Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
2 August – Tom Bell, English actor (d. 2006)
8 August – Joe Tex, American soul singer (d. 1982)
10 August – Doyle Brunson, American poker player
11 August – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (d. 2007)
14 August – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
15 August – Jim Lange, American disc jockey and game show host
16 August
Julie Newmar, American actress
Stuart Roosa, astronaut (d. 1994)
20 August – George J. Mitchell, former United States Senator
21 August
Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
Barry Norman, English film critic
23 August – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
25 August – Tom Skerritt, American actor
29 August – Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor

September – October

1 September
Conway Twitty, country music artist (d. 1993)
Ann Richards, Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
2 September
4 September – The Great Gyan Deo Mishra was born, Canadian Postal Legend (d. 2007)
Mathieu Kérékou, President of Benin
Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor
9 September – Michael Novak, American philosopher and author
10 September – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
13 September – Eileen Fulton, American actress/Soap opera star
17 September – Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
18 September – Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
15 September – Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
25 September – Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
26 September – Donna Douglas, American actress
9 October – Peter Mansfield, British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
10 October – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
17 October – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (d. 1985)
24 October
Reginald Kray, British gangster
Ronald Kray, British gangster
Norman Rush, American writer

November – December

3 November
Michael Dukakis, American politician and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate
Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
19 November – Larry King, American talk show host
23 November – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
26 November – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (d. 2007)
1 December – Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006)
Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996)
2 December – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
3 December – Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
6 December – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer
9 December – Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)
17 December – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (d. 2006)
20 December – Jean Carnahan, American politician
23 December – Emperor Akihito of Japan
26 December
Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality
Carroll Spinney, American puppeteer

Undated

Augusto Odone, creator of Lorenzo’s Oil

Deaths

January – June

1 January – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876)
3 January
Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (b. 1896)
5 January – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
7 January – Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator (b. 1892)
29 January – Thomas Coward, ornithologist (b. 1867)
31 January – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
12 February – Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
15 February – Pat Sullivan, Australian-born director and producer of animated films (b. 1887)
18 February – James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)
1 March – Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
6 March – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (assassinated) (b. 1873)
14 March – Balto, American sled dog
20 March – Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1900)
26 March – Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
3 April – William A. Moffett, U.S. admiral (sinking of the USS Akron) (b. 1869)
22 April – Henry Royce, English car manufacturer (b. 1863)
24 May – Percy C. Mather, missionary
26 May – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
2 June – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
29 June – Fatty Arbuckle, American comedian (b. 1887)

July – December

3 July – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
15 July
Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (b. 1890)
20 September – Annie Besant, English women’s rights activist, writer and orator.(b. 1847)
5 October – Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
30 November – Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader (b. 1875)
4 December – Stefan George, German poet (b. 1868)
8 December – Karl Jatho, German airplane pioneer (b. 1873)
17 December – Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
19 December – George Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer (b. 1857)
25 December – 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

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