1933
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Events
- Worst year of the Great Depression
- The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield.
- USA Federal government legalizes alcohol, outlaws marijuana.
- 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 5 - Prohibition end in the US - 1.5 million barrels of beer are drunk that night.
- 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 2 - First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
- 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.
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 3 - James Brown, musician
- 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 11 - Gene Wilder, actor
- June 13 - Tom King, British politician
- June 19 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
- July 7 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
- August 1 - Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian
- August 29 - Arnold Koller, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- September 1 - Ann Richards, governor of Texas
- September 10 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
- November 3 - Michael Dukakis, US politician
- November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
- December 6 - Henryk Gorecki, 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
- March 26 - Eddie Lang, jazz musician (b. 1902)
- April 3 - Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, in the crash of the USS Akron
- May 24 - Percy C. Mather, pioneer missionary to Eastern Turkestan
- May 26 - Jimmie Rodgers, singer
- July 15 - Freddie Keppard, jazz musician (b. 1890)
- October 5 - Renee Adoree, french actress
- November 30 - Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader.
- December 8 - Karl Jatho, German airplane pioneer.
- December 25 - Francesc Macia, President of Generalitat, Autonomous government of Catalonia
- Blind Blake, influential blues singer.
Nobel Prizes
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