1933

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

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See also:

• 1933 in film
• 1933 in literature
• 1933 in music
• 1933 in sports[?]
• 1933 in television

Events:

• Worst year of the the Great Depression
• January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
• 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 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 a man 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 3 - Mount Rushmore is dedicated
• March 4 - In reference to the Great Depression, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 9 - Great Depression: The United States Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
• 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
• March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, giving Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers over German legislation.
• 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.
• May - Karl Jansky announces the detection of radio waves from the centre of the galaxy.
• May 8 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21 day fast in protest of British oppression in India.
• May 10 - Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 26 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan
• December 26 - FM radio is patented

• Change of US presidency from Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
• USA Federal government legalizes alcohol, outlaws marijuana.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 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 J. 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 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 8 - Charles Osgood[?], journalist, commentator
• January 14 - Stan Brakhage, filmmaker (+ 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[?]
• January 28 - Susan Sontag[?], novelist, philosopher, essayist, director, playwright
• 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 26 - Godfrey Cambridge[?], actor (+ 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 19 - Philip Roth, author
• April 25 - Jerry Leiber[?], composer
• May 7 - Johnny Unitas, American football star (+ 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
• June 19 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
• September 10 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
• November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
• 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 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 D. Roosevelt, dies of his injuries
• April 3 - Rear Admiral William A. Moffett[?], in the crash of the USS Akron
• May 23 - Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, outlaws
• May 26 - Jimmie Rodgers, singer
• 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)[?]

Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)

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