Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1933. This year saw 177 significant events. 29 notable figures were born. 4 notable figures passed away.
"Cavalcade" based on the play by Noël Coward, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1934)
Cricket's Bodyline Tour: Australian batsman Bert Oldfield suffers a fractured skull after being struck by a ball bowled by England's Harold Larwood during the Third Test in Adelaide
The name "Pakistan" is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali and gradually accepted by Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, who use it to push for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia
President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen
Nazi Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, is destroyed by fire, possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe
"King Kong" film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd US President, pledges to pull the US out of the Depression, stating in his inaugural address "that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
US Congress is called into a special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, beginning its "100 days" during which it passes 77 laws
Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933.
German Reichstag hastily passes the Enabling Act and President Paul von Hindenburg signs it the same day, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
Walt Disney's short film "3 Little Pigs" released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934)
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
American heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds American Broadway singer and actress Hannah Williams (22); divorce in 1943
Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida" at the New York Hippodrome, becoming the first Black female opera singer to perform in the United States
Iraqi government forces slaughter over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele in northern Iraq, commemorated as Assyrian Martyrs Day
Austro-Hungarian actress Hedy Kreissler, later known as Hedy LaMarr (18) weds Austrian arms manufacturer Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33); divorce in 1937
Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.
First televised boxing match, a six-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, airs on BBC TV
American gangster Sam Giancana (25) weds Angeline DeTolve, until her death in 1954
Actress Greer Garson (29) weds first husband Edward Snelson (29)
The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
First modern sit-down strike by Hormel meatpackers in Austin, Minnesota
Future President of the Philippines Ramon Magsaysay (26) weds Luz Banzon (18) at Lourdes church in Manila
The Marx Brothers were an American comedy troupe who achieved success in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures.
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years.
1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
Jack Kirkland's play "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC and becomes the longest-running play of its time
Prohibition ends in the US at 5:32 PM EST when the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment
American actor Gary Cooper (32) weds American actress Veronica Balfe (20) at her mother's home on Park Avenue, New York City, until his death in 1961
The United States occupation of Nicaragua from August 4, 1912, to January 2, 1933, was part of the Banana Wars, when the U.S. military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934.
IJmuiden Federation fishing strike begins; the longest fishing industry strike in history, lasting until July 11
1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
Amsterdam confectionery workers go on strike against wage reduction
Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 die
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico established
Between seventy-three and seventy-nine days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office.
Otto Meisnner (Head of the German President's Office) dines with British ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold
French government of Paul Boncour falls
1st radio broadcast of "The Lone Ranger" on WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan
Clarrie Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 – 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author.
1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, D.C.
Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
-90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
-23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
-63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
-54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany was a component of German resistance to Nazism and of Resistance during World War II.
Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis and communists
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine based in New York City. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century and has had many notable...
Hungarian scholar and the founder of Tibetan studies Alexander Csoma de Kőrös declared a Bodhisattva (Buddhist saint) in Japan
Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
1st genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger
Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.
Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
The self-elimination of Parliament (German: Selbstausschaltung des Parlaments) was a constitutional crisis in the First Austrian Republic caused by the resignation on March 4, 1933, of all three...
"42nd Street" a musical film revolving around rehearsals for a Broadway show, directed by Lloyd Bacon, with choreography by Busby Berkeley, and songs by Harry Warren and by Al Dubin, premieres at the Strand, NYC; later adapted as a stage musical
The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California, on the Newport–Inglewood Fault.
American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages...
NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party.
Radio Clube de Mocambique's 1st radio transmission
Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States.
"Soperton News" publishes 1st newspaper on pine pulp paper, in Soperton, Georgia
England cricket batsman Wally Hammond smashes 34 fours, 10 sixes in a Test record unbeaten 336 in the drawn 2nd Test against New Zealand in Auckland
1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
USS Akron dirigible crashes into Atlantic Ocean, off coast of New Jersey, in stormy weather; 73 die including US Navy Rear Admiral William A. Moffett - a major proponent of the airship fleet, there were 3 survivors [1]
'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer
Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror
US Navy commissions Air Station Sunnyvale (later renamed NAS Moffatt Field) in Santa Clara county, California (at the southern end of San Francisco Bay)
1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
The New York Giants, an American football team which currently plays in the National Football League (NFL)'s National Football Conference (NFC), has a history dating back almost 100 seasons, with 4...
Dutch government forbids left wing radio address
NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it...
The director of the United States Mint is the chief officer of the United States Mint. It is a presidential appointment that requires a Senate confirmation.
Italy and USSR sign trade agreement
The Cuban General Strike of 1933 was a mass labor uprising in Cuba that played a crucial role in the overthrow of President Gerardo Machado during Cuba's political crisis in the early 1930s.
Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief and Construction Act.
1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
Washington Senators infielder Cecil Travis becomes 1st in MLB history player to get 5 hits in his debut game
Around 5,000 forced deportees in the Soviet Union arrive on Nazino Island; within thirteen weeks most of them will be dead due to disease, cannibalism and violence
First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster by Aldie and John Mackay, who claim to see "something resembling a whale"
Spanish piano virtuoso José Iturbi makes his conducting debut, leading an orchestra at the Teatro Hidalgo in Mexico City, Mexico
2nd emergency Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn forms
The Communist Party of Austria (German: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, KPÖ) is a communist party in Austria.
Patent on invisible glass installation
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934.
MLB Philadelphia A's score 11 runs in 2nd, and New York Yankees score 10 in 5th, enroute to a win 17-11
US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
Richard Hollingshead opens the world's 1st Drive-In movie theater on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken, New Jersey
The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República Española), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (Spanish: Segunda República Española), was the democratic government of Spain from 1931 to 1939.
Like many other nations at the time, Germany suffered the economic effects of the Great Depression, with unemployment soaring after the Wall Street crash of 1929.
Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation supplying deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings banks.
Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob
Engelbert Dollfuss (alternatively Dollfuß; 4 October 1892 – 25 July 1934) was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934.
First Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico barge trip is completed in New Orleans
The German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative and monarchist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Don McNeill's Pepper Pot, later called The Breakfast Club, begins 35½ year run on NBC radio
50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
°F (45.6°C), Las Animas, Colorado (state record, tied in 1954; broken in 2019)
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California.
Austria signs a concordat (pact) with the Vatican, guaranteeing the rights and privileges of the Catholic Church in Austria
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief and Construction Act.
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia.
First police radio system operated in Eastchester Township, NY
Minimum wage law is the body of law which prohibits employers from hiring employees or workers for less than a given hourly, daily or monthly minimum wage.
After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Germany under mysterious circumstances
Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets
Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of 298,312 in 2023.
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it...
Philadelphia A's defeat NY Yankees 7-0, the first time in 308 games "Bronx Bombers" are shut out
Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees following a military coup
Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
18th International Zionist Congress opens in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Jan van Houten (25) cycles a world record distance of 44.588 km in an hour, at the velodrome in Maasniel, Netherlands
Air France, stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the flag carrier of France, and is headquartered in Tremblay-en-France.
US Navy renames NAS Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, California, NAS Moffett Field, in honor of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett; Moffett championed the construction of the base, but died in the crash of airship USS Akron before the base opened
Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first to reach Communism Peak (7,495 m), the highest point in the Soviet Union
Comiskey Park was a ballpark in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-south side of the city.
Antwerp's Sportpaleis in Belgium, the largest indoor arena in Europe, opens; renovated from 2010 to 2013
Alejandro Lerroux García (4 March 1864 – 25 June 1949) was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party.
Elizabeth Reid McCombs was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
Oregon ( ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
NY Giants clinch the pennant
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh.
Marinus van der Lubbe was a Dutch communist who was tried, convicted, and executed by the government of Nazi Germany for setting fire to the Reichstag building—the national parliament of Germany—on...
MLB New York Yankees commit five errors (three by shortstop Frankie Crosetti) but beat the Red Sox 16-12 at Fenway Park, Boston
First state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
Sidney Kingsley's play "Men in White" premieres in NYC (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1934)
Netherlands opens the Afsluitdijk, a dam and motorway that completes its damming of the Zuiderzee, an inlet of the North Sea; declared by the American Society of Civil Engineering as one of its Seven Wonders of the Modern World
Little King, cartoon character by Van Beuren, debuts
New York Giants make no first downs but still beat the Green Bay Packers 10-7 in a Week 3 NFL matchup at Borchert Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Gustave "Staf" de Clercq forms the Flemish National Covenant
Esquire magazine is 1st published
Coit Tower ( KOYT; also known as Coit Memorial Tower) is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay.
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation incorporated and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company operates five divisions: Beauty (18% of 2024...
Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich" premieres in Paris
Between seventy-three and seventy-nine days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office.
Berlin Olympic Committee votes to introduce basketball in 1936
French government of Albert Sarraut forms
Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor...
Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
"Great Black Blizzard" 1st of the great dust storms that created the dust bowl rips through South Dakota
1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Eagles tie Chicago Bears, 3-3
!st national election in Spain since women granted right to vote in 1931; Over seven million woman cast ballots as conservative factions win majority
1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket, the 2.2 meter long GIRD-X, attains altitude of 80 meters (262.5 ft)
Camille Chautemps becomes French premier for the second time
Liquor stores are authorized to operate in the US for the first time, with the first location to authorize sales in Pennsylvania
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps are established in the Cleveland Park District
As part of a famous MLB fire sale of players, Philadelphia A's owner Connie Mack sells catcher Mickey Cochrane to Detroit for $100,000; Cochrane is immediately named Tigers manager
Bernadette Soubirous, SCN, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes (religious name Marie-Bernarde), was a miller's daughter from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in...
Romania prohibits fascist Iron Guard
Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey (July 3, 1903 – April 7, 1992) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for eight seasons, from 1926 to 1933.
Freda Josephine Baker, also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France.
Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
The Elfstedentochtfˈsteːdə(n)tɔxt]; West Frisian: Alvestêdetocht [ɔlvəˈstɛːdətɔχt], English: Eleven cities tour) is a long-distance tour skating event on natural ice, almost 200 kilometres (120 mi)...
Bryan Valentine (136) and Lala Amarnath (102no) score centuries on their Test Cricket debut on Day 3 of 1st Test between England and India at Bombay
US President Roosevelt creates Electric Home & Farm Authority (EHFA) to assist low income household with purchase of major appliances [1]
Bolivia & Paraguay sign cease fire
Dried human blood serum is first prepared at the University of Pennsylvania
Montreal Canadiens center Howie Morenz scores in 3-0 win v Detroit Red Wings; his NHL record 249th career goal
Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American radio-frequency engineer and inventor who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver...
New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert refuses to release future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds
-50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
Susan Sontag, American writer, critic and public intellectual, known for american writer, critic and public intellectual, was born on 1933-01-16.
Ray Dolby, American electrical engineer and inventor, known for american electrical engineer and inventor, was born on 1933-01-18.
Corazon Aquino is born
Nina Simone, American musician, known for american singer-songwriter, was born on 1933-02-21.
Quincy Jones Jr is born
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is born
Philippe de Broca, French film director, known for french film director, was born on 1933-03-15. Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac was a French film director.
Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor, known for french actor, was born on 1933-04-09. Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo bɛlmɔ̃do]; 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor, producer and distributor.
Joel Grey, American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer, known for american actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer, was born on 1933-04-11.
Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1933-04-15.
Jayne Mansfield, American actress and playmate, known for american actress and playmate, was born on 1933-04-19.
James Brown, American musician, known for american musician, was born on 1933-05-03.
Johnny Unitas, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1933-05-07.
Joan Rivers, American entertainer, known for american entertainer, was born on 1933-06-08.
Gene Wilder, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1933-06-11. Gene Wilder was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker.
Dudley Herschbach, American chemist, known for american chemist, was born on 1933-06-18. Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University.
Jerry Herman is born
Sheldon Adelson, American businessman, known for american businessman, was born on 1933-08-04.
Rocky Colavito athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1933-08-10. Rocco Domenico "Rocky" Colavito Jr.
Conway Twitty, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1933-09-01.
Bob Packwood, American politician, known for american politician, was born on 1933-09-11.
John B. Gurdon, British developmental biologist, known for english developmental biologist, was born on 1933-10-02.
Neale Fraser, Australian athlete, known for australian tennis player, was born on 1933-10-03. Neale Andrew Fraser, (3 October 1933 – 2 December 2024) was an Australian champion tennis player.
Hobart "Hobie" Alter, American athlete, known for american businessman, was born on 1933-10-31.
Larry King, American tv and radio host, known for american tv and radio host, was born on 1933-11-19. Larry King was an American TV and radio host, author, and former spokesman.
Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish musician, known for polish composer and conductor, was born on 1933-11-23. Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor.
Ellen Burstyn, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1933-12-07. Ellen Burstyn is an American actress.
Bob Pettit athlete, known for american former basketball player and coach, was born on 1933-12-12. Robert Lee Pettit Jr. is an American former professional basketball player.
Jalal Talabani is born
Thomas J. Walsh dies
Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer, known for american country singer, died on 1933-05-26.
Edward Grey dies
Émile Roux, French physician, known for french physician, died on 1933-11-03. Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist.
"Cavalcade" based on the play by Noël Coward, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1934)
Cricket's Bodyline Tour: Australian batsman Bert Oldfield suffers a fractured skull after being struck by a ball bowled by England's Harold Larwood during the Third Test in Adelaide
The name "Pakistan" is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali and gradually accepted by Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, who use it to push for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia
President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen
Nazi Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, is destroyed by fire, possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe
"King Kong" film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd US President, pledges to pull the US out of the Depression, stating in his inaugural address "that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
US Congress is called into a special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, beginning its "100 days" during which it passes 77 laws
Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933.
German Reichstag hastily passes the Enabling Act and President Paul von Hindenburg signs it the same day, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
Walt Disney's short film "3 Little Pigs" released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934)
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
American heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds American Broadway singer and actress Hannah Williams (22); divorce in 1943
Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida" at the New York Hippodrome, becoming the first Black female opera singer to perform in the United States
Iraqi government forces slaughter over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele in northern Iraq, commemorated as Assyrian Martyrs Day
Austro-Hungarian actress Hedy Kreissler, later known as Hedy LaMarr (18) weds Austrian arms manufacturer Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33); divorce in 1937
Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.
First televised boxing match, a six-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, airs on BBC TV
American gangster Sam Giancana (25) weds Angeline DeTolve, until her death in 1954
Actress Greer Garson (29) weds first husband Edward Snelson (29)
The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
First modern sit-down strike by Hormel meatpackers in Austin, Minnesota
Future President of the Philippines Ramon Magsaysay (26) weds Luz Banzon (18) at Lourdes church in Manila
The Marx Brothers were an American comedy troupe who achieved success in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures.
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years.
1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
Jack Kirkland's play "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC and becomes the longest-running play of its time
Prohibition ends in the US at 5:32 PM EST when the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment
American actor Gary Cooper (32) weds American actress Veronica Balfe (20) at her mother's home on Park Avenue, New York City, until his death in 1961
The United States occupation of Nicaragua from August 4, 1912, to January 2, 1933, was part of the Banana Wars, when the U.S. military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934.
IJmuiden Federation fishing strike begins; the longest fishing industry strike in history, lasting until July 11
1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
Amsterdam confectionery workers go on strike against wage reduction
Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 die
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico established
Between seventy-three and seventy-nine days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office.
Otto Meisnner (Head of the German President's Office) dines with British ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold
French government of Paul Boncour falls
1st radio broadcast of "The Lone Ranger" on WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan
Clarrie Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 – 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author.
1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, D.C.
Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
-90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
-23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
-63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
-54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany was a component of German resistance to Nazism and of Resistance during World War II.
Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis and communists
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine based in New York City. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century and has had many notable...
Hungarian scholar and the founder of Tibetan studies Alexander Csoma de Kőrös declared a Bodhisattva (Buddhist saint) in Japan
Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
1st genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger
Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.
Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
The self-elimination of Parliament (German: Selbstausschaltung des Parlaments) was a constitutional crisis in the First Austrian Republic caused by the resignation on March 4, 1933, of all three...
"42nd Street" a musical film revolving around rehearsals for a Broadway show, directed by Lloyd Bacon, with choreography by Busby Berkeley, and songs by Harry Warren and by Al Dubin, premieres at the Strand, NYC; later adapted as a stage musical
The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California, on the Newport–Inglewood Fault.
American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages...
NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party.
Radio Clube de Mocambique's 1st radio transmission
Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States.
"Soperton News" publishes 1st newspaper on pine pulp paper, in Soperton, Georgia
England cricket batsman Wally Hammond smashes 34 fours, 10 sixes in a Test record unbeaten 336 in the drawn 2nd Test against New Zealand in Auckland
1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
USS Akron dirigible crashes into Atlantic Ocean, off coast of New Jersey, in stormy weather; 73 die including US Navy Rear Admiral William A. Moffett - a major proponent of the airship fleet, there were 3 survivors [1]
'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer
Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror
US Navy commissions Air Station Sunnyvale (later renamed NAS Moffatt Field) in Santa Clara county, California (at the southern end of San Francisco Bay)
1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
The New York Giants, an American football team which currently plays in the National Football League (NFL)'s National Football Conference (NFC), has a history dating back almost 100 seasons, with 4...
Dutch government forbids left wing radio address
NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it...
The director of the United States Mint is the chief officer of the United States Mint. It is a presidential appointment that requires a Senate confirmation.
Italy and USSR sign trade agreement
The Cuban General Strike of 1933 was a mass labor uprising in Cuba that played a crucial role in the overthrow of President Gerardo Machado during Cuba's political crisis in the early 1930s.
Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief and Construction Act.
1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
Washington Senators infielder Cecil Travis becomes 1st in MLB history player to get 5 hits in his debut game
Around 5,000 forced deportees in the Soviet Union arrive on Nazino Island; within thirteen weeks most of them will be dead due to disease, cannibalism and violence
First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster by Aldie and John Mackay, who claim to see "something resembling a whale"
Spanish piano virtuoso José Iturbi makes his conducting debut, leading an orchestra at the Teatro Hidalgo in Mexico City, Mexico
2nd emergency Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn forms
The Communist Party of Austria (German: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, KPÖ) is a communist party in Austria.
Patent on invisible glass installation
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934.
MLB Philadelphia A's score 11 runs in 2nd, and New York Yankees score 10 in 5th, enroute to a win 17-11
US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
Richard Hollingshead opens the world's 1st Drive-In movie theater on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken, New Jersey
The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República Española), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (Spanish: Segunda República Española), was the democratic government of Spain from 1931 to 1939.
Like many other nations at the time, Germany suffered the economic effects of the Great Depression, with unemployment soaring after the Wall Street crash of 1929.
Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation supplying deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings banks.
Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob
Engelbert Dollfuss (alternatively Dollfuß; 4 October 1892 – 25 July 1934) was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934.
First Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico barge trip is completed in New Orleans
The German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative and monarchist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Don McNeill's Pepper Pot, later called The Breakfast Club, begins 35½ year run on NBC radio
50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
°F (45.6°C), Las Animas, Colorado (state record, tied in 1954; broken in 2019)
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California.
Austria signs a concordat (pact) with the Vatican, guaranteeing the rights and privileges of the Catholic Church in Austria
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief and Construction Act.
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia.
First police radio system operated in Eastchester Township, NY
Minimum wage law is the body of law which prohibits employers from hiring employees or workers for less than a given hourly, daily or monthly minimum wage.
After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Germany under mysterious circumstances
Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets
Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of 298,312 in 2023.
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it...
Philadelphia A's defeat NY Yankees 7-0, the first time in 308 games "Bronx Bombers" are shut out
Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees following a military coup
Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
18th International Zionist Congress opens in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Jan van Houten (25) cycles a world record distance of 44.588 km in an hour, at the velodrome in Maasniel, Netherlands
Air France, stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the flag carrier of France, and is headquartered in Tremblay-en-France.
US Navy renames NAS Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, California, NAS Moffett Field, in honor of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett; Moffett championed the construction of the base, but died in the crash of airship USS Akron before the base opened
Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first to reach Communism Peak (7,495 m), the highest point in the Soviet Union
Comiskey Park was a ballpark in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-south side of the city.
Antwerp's Sportpaleis in Belgium, the largest indoor arena in Europe, opens; renovated from 2010 to 2013
Alejandro Lerroux García (4 March 1864 – 25 June 1949) was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party.
Elizabeth Reid McCombs was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
Oregon ( ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
NY Giants clinch the pennant
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh.
Marinus van der Lubbe was a Dutch communist who was tried, convicted, and executed by the government of Nazi Germany for setting fire to the Reichstag building—the national parliament of Germany—on...
MLB New York Yankees commit five errors (three by shortstop Frankie Crosetti) but beat the Red Sox 16-12 at Fenway Park, Boston
First state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
Sidney Kingsley's play "Men in White" premieres in NYC (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1934)
Netherlands opens the Afsluitdijk, a dam and motorway that completes its damming of the Zuiderzee, an inlet of the North Sea; declared by the American Society of Civil Engineering as one of its Seven Wonders of the Modern World
Little King, cartoon character by Van Beuren, debuts
New York Giants make no first downs but still beat the Green Bay Packers 10-7 in a Week 3 NFL matchup at Borchert Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Gustave "Staf" de Clercq forms the Flemish National Covenant
Esquire magazine is 1st published
Coit Tower ( KOYT; also known as Coit Memorial Tower) is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay.
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation incorporated and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company operates five divisions: Beauty (18% of 2024...
Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich" premieres in Paris
Between seventy-three and seventy-nine days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office.
Berlin Olympic Committee votes to introduce basketball in 1936
French government of Albert Sarraut forms
Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States in order to rapidly create mostly manual-labor...
Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
"Great Black Blizzard" 1st of the great dust storms that created the dust bowl rips through South Dakota
1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Eagles tie Chicago Bears, 3-3
!st national election in Spain since women granted right to vote in 1931; Over seven million woman cast ballots as conservative factions win majority
1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket, the 2.2 meter long GIRD-X, attains altitude of 80 meters (262.5 ft)
Camille Chautemps becomes French premier for the second time
Liquor stores are authorized to operate in the US for the first time, with the first location to authorize sales in Pennsylvania
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps are established in the Cleveland Park District
As part of a famous MLB fire sale of players, Philadelphia A's owner Connie Mack sells catcher Mickey Cochrane to Detroit for $100,000; Cochrane is immediately named Tigers manager
Bernadette Soubirous, SCN, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes (religious name Marie-Bernarde), was a miller's daughter from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in...
Romania prohibits fascist Iron Guard
Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey (July 3, 1903 – April 7, 1992) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for eight seasons, from 1926 to 1933.
Freda Josephine Baker, also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France.
Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
The Elfstedentochtfˈsteːdə(n)tɔxt]; West Frisian: Alvestêdetocht [ɔlvəˈstɛːdətɔχt], English: Eleven cities tour) is a long-distance tour skating event on natural ice, almost 200 kilometres (120 mi)...
Bryan Valentine (136) and Lala Amarnath (102no) score centuries on their Test Cricket debut on Day 3 of 1st Test between England and India at Bombay
US President Roosevelt creates Electric Home & Farm Authority (EHFA) to assist low income household with purchase of major appliances [1]
Bolivia & Paraguay sign cease fire
Dried human blood serum is first prepared at the University of Pennsylvania
Montreal Canadiens center Howie Morenz scores in 3-0 win v Detroit Red Wings; his NHL record 249th career goal
Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American radio-frequency engineer and inventor who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver...
New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert refuses to release future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds
-50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
Susan Sontag, American writer, critic and public intellectual, known for american writer, critic and public intellectual, was born on 1933-01-16.
Ray Dolby, American electrical engineer and inventor, known for american electrical engineer and inventor, was born on 1933-01-18.
Corazon Aquino is born
Nina Simone, American musician, known for american singer-songwriter, was born on 1933-02-21.
Quincy Jones Jr is born
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is born
Philippe de Broca, French film director, known for french film director, was born on 1933-03-15. Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac was a French film director.
Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor, known for french actor, was born on 1933-04-09. Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo bɛlmɔ̃do]; 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor, producer and distributor.
Joel Grey, American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer, known for american actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer, was born on 1933-04-11.
Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1933-04-15.
Jayne Mansfield, American actress and playmate, known for american actress and playmate, was born on 1933-04-19.
James Brown, American musician, known for american musician, was born on 1933-05-03.
Johnny Unitas, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1933-05-07.
Joan Rivers, American entertainer, known for american entertainer, was born on 1933-06-08.
Gene Wilder, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1933-06-11. Gene Wilder was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker.
Dudley Herschbach, American chemist, known for american chemist, was born on 1933-06-18. Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University.
Jerry Herman is born
Sheldon Adelson, American businessman, known for american businessman, was born on 1933-08-04.
Rocky Colavito athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1933-08-10. Rocco Domenico "Rocky" Colavito Jr.
Conway Twitty, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1933-09-01.
Bob Packwood, American politician, known for american politician, was born on 1933-09-11.
John B. Gurdon, British developmental biologist, known for english developmental biologist, was born on 1933-10-02.
Neale Fraser, Australian athlete, known for australian tennis player, was born on 1933-10-03. Neale Andrew Fraser, (3 October 1933 – 2 December 2024) was an Australian champion tennis player.
Hobart "Hobie" Alter, American athlete, known for american businessman, was born on 1933-10-31.
Larry King, American tv and radio host, known for american tv and radio host, was born on 1933-11-19. Larry King was an American TV and radio host, author, and former spokesman.
Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish musician, known for polish composer and conductor, was born on 1933-11-23. Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor.
Ellen Burstyn, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1933-12-07. Ellen Burstyn is an American actress.
Bob Pettit athlete, known for american former basketball player and coach, was born on 1933-12-12. Robert Lee Pettit Jr. is an American former professional basketball player.
Jalal Talabani is born
Thomas J. Walsh dies
Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer, known for american country singer, died on 1933-05-26.
Edward Grey dies
Émile Roux, French physician, known for french physician, died on 1933-11-03. Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist.