1933

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

Events

• Worst year of 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 - 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 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 120 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
• March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, giving Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers over Germany
• 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.
• July 14 - In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
• 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.
• September 12 - Leo Szilard, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
• October 12 - The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice who plans to incorporate the island into its Bureau of Prisons as a federal penitentiary.
• 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.
• December 26 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan
• December 26 - FM radio is patented

• USA Federal government legalizes alcohol, 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 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 19 - Philip Roth, author
• April 25 - Jerry Leiber, composer
• April 29 - Mark Eyskens, Belgian minister and Prime Minister
• 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
• June 13 - Tom King, British politician
• June 19 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
• September 10 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
• November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
• December 6 - Henryk Górecki, 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 Delano 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
• 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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