1933 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1933?
- January 5, 1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- January 14, 1933 – The controversial Bodyline cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine’s England peaks when Australian captain Bill Woodfull was hit in the heart.
- January 26, 1933 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 10, 1933 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
- February 17, 1933 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time.
- February 20, 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party’s upcoming election campaign.
- February 27, 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- March 4, 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
- March 21, 1933 – Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
- April 1, 1933 – English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
- May 1, 1933 – The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
- May 2, 1933 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
- June 6, 1933 – The first drive-in theater opens in Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States.
- August 7, 1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
- August 25, 1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
- October 14, 1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
- October 17, 1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
- November 7, 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
- November 8, 1933 – 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 17, 1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union.
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