1933 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1933?
- January 26, 1933 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- January 30, 1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- February 10, 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
- February 17, 1933 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time.
- February 27, 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- March 2, 1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
- March 23, 1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
- April 5, 1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by U.S. citizens.
- May 2, 1933 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
- May 17, 1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
- May 18, 1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- June 6, 1933 – The first drive-in theater opens in Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States.
- June 16, 1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
- June 17, 1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
- July 17, 1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
- July 22, 1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15596 mi in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
- August 25, 1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
- October 7, 1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
- October 10, 1933 – United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
- November 7, 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
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