1933
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'''1933''' '''(MCMXXXIII)''' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
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 Reichspräsident|Reich President Paul von Hindenburg.
January 30 - The first airing of episode 1 of 2,956 episodes of the radio program ''The Lone Ranger''.
February
February 4 - Mutiny starts on the Dutch pantserschip Zeven Provincien.
February 6 - The United States Constitution/Amendment Twenty|20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
February 6-February 7|7 - Officers on the ''USS Ramapo'' record 34 meters high sea-wave in the Pacific
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 of the United States|President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt|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 27 - Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag (building)|Reichstag, is set on fire (see: Reichstag fire).
March
March 1 - Kyriakos Varvaressos becomes Deputy Governor to the Bank of Greece
March 3 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial|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 4 - The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor of Austria|Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism)
March 5 - Great Depression: President of the United States|President Franklin Delano Roosevelt|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 German election, 1933|elections, Nazism|National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes
March 9 - Great Depression: The Congress of the United States|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 20 - Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed - opened March 22
March 23 - The ''Reichstag (institution)|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 Nazism|Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust.
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 21 - Nazi Germany outlaws kosher ritual shechita
April 23 - Japanese crown prince Akihito born
April 26 - Gestapo established.
April 26 - Editors of ''Harvard Lampoon'' steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House. It is returned two days later
April 27 - Stahlhelm organizations joins the Nazi party
May - Detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy reported
May
May 2 - First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
May 2 - ''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.
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 26 - Nazi party in Germany introduces law to legalize eugenics|eugenic sterilization
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
June 5 - The Congress of the United States|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 opened in Camden New Jersey.
June 17 - In Kansas City, Missouri, Pretty Boy Floyd kills four unarmed Federal Bureau of Investigations|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
July
July 4 - Mohandas Gandhi sentenced to prison
July 14 - Forming new political parties forbidden in Germany.
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.
July 22 - George Kelly|"Machine-Gun" Kelly and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200.000 ransom
August
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
September 3 - Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain.
September 12 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, London, England|Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
September 26 - Tornado destroys the town of Tampico in Mexico.
October
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 United States Bureau of Prisons|Bureau of Prisons as a federal penitentiary.
October 16 - Germany announces intention to leave the League of Nations - officially
October 17 - Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
October 19
November
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 Delano Roosevelt|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 diplomacy|diplomatic relations.
November 16 - President of Brazil Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
December
December 5 - The repeal of prohibition in the United States went into effect.
December 24 - Train crash in Lagny, France - over 200 dead
December 26 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan.
December 26 - Frequency modulation|FM radio is patented.
December 29 - Members of the Iron Guard assassinate Ion Duca|Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania
Undated
British Interplanetary Society founded
The Toll House cookie|chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield.
The Federal government of the United States|United States Federal Government ends Prohibition and outlaws marijuana.
Failed coup against Franklin Delano Roosevelt in United States (see Smedley Butler)
London Transport | London Passenger Transport Board founded.
Jimmie Angel becomes the first person 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
Births
January
January 6 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (d. 2003)
January 6 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian, director, and writer
January 8 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
January 14 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
January 16 - Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)
January 17 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
January 17 - Sadruddhin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
January 18 - John Boorman, American film director
January 23 - Chita Rivera, American actress and dancer
January 25 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
February
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 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
March 6 - Ted Abernathy, baseball player (d. 2004)
March 14 - Michael Caine, English actor
March 14 - Quincy Jones, American music producer and composer
March 15 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
March 15 - 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
April 1 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate
April 5 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist
April 6 - Roy Goode, British legal academic
April 12 - Montserrat Caballé, Catalan soprano
April 12 - 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 25 - Jerry Leiber, American composer
April 26 - Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and comedienne
April 26 - Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate
April 29 - Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
May
May 3 - James Brown (musician)|James Brown, American musician
May 3 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate
May 7 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002)
May 10 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
May 11 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
May 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor
May 21 - Maurice André, French trumpeter
May 23 - Joan Collins, English actress
May 26 - Edward Whittemore, American writer and Central Intelligence agent (d. 1995)
May 29 - Marc Carbonneau, Canadian terrorist
May 29 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
June
June 1 - Charles Wilson (politician)|Charles Wilson, American politician
June 6 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate
June 8 - Joan Rivers, American comedienne
June 11 - Gene Wilder, American actor
June 13 - Tom King (politician)|Tom King, British politician
June 17 - Harry Browne, American writer and Presidential candidate
June 19 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (d. 1971)
June 23 - Dave Bristol, baseball manager
June 26 - Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
June 29 - John Bradshaw (Theologian)|John Bradshaw, American theologian and educator
July
July 7 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
July 8 - Marty Feldman, English comedian, actor (d. 1982)
July 15 - Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
July 15 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
July 21 - John Gardner, American novelist (d. 1982)
July 23 - Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (d. 1991)
August
August 1 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
August 10 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
August 14 - Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate
August 16 - Stuart Roosa, astronaut (d. 1994)
August 21 - Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
August 23 - Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate
August 29 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
September-October
September 1 - Ann Richards, Governor of Texas
September 2 - Mathieu Kérékou, President of Benin
September 9 - Michael Novak, American philosopher and author
September 10 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
September 17 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
September 15 - Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
September 25 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
October 9 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
November
November 3 - Michael Dukakis, American politician and Presidential candidate
November 3 - Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate
November 19 - Larry King, talk show host
November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
December
December 2 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
December 3 - Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate
December 6 - Henryk Górecki, Polish composer
December 9 - Morton Downey, Jr., American television personality (d. 2001)
December 20 - Jean Carnahan, American politician
December 23 - Emperor Akihito of Japan
December 26 - Ugly Dave Grey, Australian television personality
Deaths
January-March
January 1 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1976)
January 3 - 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 31 - John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
February 12 - Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
February 15 - Pat Sullivan (film producer)|Pat Sullivan, Australian-born director and producer of animated films (b. 1887)
February 18 - James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)
March 6 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (assassinated) (b. 1873)
March 14 - Balto, American sled dog
March 26 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
April-June
April 3 - William A. Moffett, U.S. admiral (sinking of the USS Akron) (b. 1869)
May 24 - Percy C. Mather, missionary
May 26 - Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer (b. 1897)
June 2 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
July-December
July 3 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
July 15 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
July 15 - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (b. 1890)
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 25 - Francesc Macia|Francesc Macià, President of the Generalitat (autonomous government of Catalonia) (b. 1859)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics - Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac|Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry - not awarded
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Physiology or Medicine - Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize in literature|Literature - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace - Norman Angell|Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
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