Historical Events in 1933

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• Jan 2 19th Rose Bowl: Southern California beats Pittsburgh, 35-0

• Jan 2 Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
• Jan 2 US troops leave Nicaragua
• Jan 3 Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

• Jan 5 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, starting on the Marin County side

• Jan 7 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
• Jan 7 Revival of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's musical "Shuffle Along" closes at Mansfield Theater, NYC, after 17 performances
• Jan 9 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
• Jan 12 Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies
• Jan 12 US Congress recognizes the Philippines' independence

• Jan 16 Cricket's Bodyline Tour: Australian batsman Bert Oldfield's skull fractured by delivery bowled by Englishman Harold Larwood during the third test in Adelaide
• Jan 17 Australian cricket batting champion Don Bradman takes only his 2nd Test wicket; bowls England's Walter Hammond for 85 during 338-run 3rd Test defeat in Adelaide
• Jan 18 White Sands National Monument in New Mexico established
• Jan 23 20th amendment, which changed the date of US presidential inaugurations to 20th January, is ratified
• Jan 24 Noël Coward's stage comedy "Design for Living", starring Alfred Lunt; Lynn Fontanne, and Coward himself, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 155 performances
• Jan 27 Otto Meisnner (Head of the German President's Office) dines with British ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold
• Jan 28 French government of Paul Boncour falls
• Jan 28 German government of Von Schleicher falls
• Jan 28 The name "Pakistan" is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali and gradually accepted by Muslims in the Indian sub-continent who use it to push for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia
• Jan 30 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio

• Jan 30 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford wins his 3rd straight Australian title; beats Keith Gledhill of the US 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2
• Jan 30 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Melbourne: Joan Hartigan Bathurst beats Coral McInnes Buttsworth 6-4, 6-3
• Jan 30 Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match

• Jan 31 Adolf Hitler promises parliamentary democracy

• Feb 1 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
• Feb 1 Dutch bishops forbid membership of non-catholic unions

• Feb 2 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Reichstag (Parliament)

• Feb 2 Ucicky's "Rotten Morning" premieres in Berlin
• Feb 3 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, D.C.

• Feb 3 German Minister Hermann Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts
• Feb 4 German President Paul von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
• Feb 5 Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
• Feb 5 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch-German border
• Feb 6 -90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
• Feb 6 German President Paul von Hindenburg and Franz von Papen end the Prussian parliament
• Feb 6 Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in North Pacific hurricane by USS Ramapo
• Feb 7 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
• Feb 7 Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead
• Feb 8 -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
• Feb 8 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
• Feb 9 -63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
• Feb 10 -54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
• Feb 10 Adolf Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
• Feb 10 Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
• Feb 10 Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
• Feb 10 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
• Feb 12 German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
• Feb 15 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party

• Feb 15 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin
• Feb 16 Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis and communists
• Feb 16 England cricket team regains the Ashes against Australia, thanks to "bodyline" tactics
• Feb 17 First issue of American news magazine "Newsweek" is published
• Feb 17 US Senate accepts Blaine Act: ending prohibition
• Feb 19 Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers
• Feb 20 Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech
• Feb 20 Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn" premieres in NYC
• Feb 20 US House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
• Feb 22 Hungarian scholar and the founder of Tibetan studies Alexander Csoma de Kőrös declared a Bodhisattva (Buddhist saint) in Japan
• Feb 22 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 272.46 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida
• Feb 24 Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
• Feb 24 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
• Feb 25 1st genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger
• Feb 25 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
• Feb 25 New York industrialist Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox for $1.25 million
• Feb 26 Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell
• Feb 26 Golden Gate Bridge groundbreaking ceremony held at Crissy Field

• Feb 28 1st female in US Cabinet: Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
• Feb 28 After the Reichstag Fire Decree, the German Communist Party (KPD) is essentially outlawed (though not formally banned) after the German government blames the Communists for burning down the Reichstag building
• Feb 28 On Adolf Hitler's advice, German President Paul von Hindenburg signs the Reichstag Fire Decree after the building is destroyed by fire in Berlin; this eliminates many civil liberties in Germany
• Feb 28 Pacifist and anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky arrested, sent to Esterwegen-Papenburg concentration camp
• Mar 1 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks

• Mar 2 Sanriku earthquake of 8.4 and tsunami hit Japan, country's most powerful earthquake in 180 years
• Mar 3 German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
• Mar 3 Mount Rushmore dedicated
• Mar 4 Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
• Mar 4 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st female member of the US Cabinet
• Mar 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd US President, pledges to pull US out of the Depression, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
• Mar 4 Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
• Mar 4 Noordwijk soccer team forms
• Mar 5 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
• Mar 5 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
• Mar 6 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday, to shut down the banking system, pass the Emergency Banking Act and restore public confidence

• Mar 6 Poland occupies the free city of Danzig (Gdańsk)
• Mar 9 "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
• Mar 9 Bulgarian communists Georgi Dimitrov, Blagoy Popov & Vasil Tanev arrested in Berlin, Germany, on charges of complicity in the Reichstag fire; all were acquitted
• Mar 9 US Congress is called into special session by President Franklin D Roosevelt, beginning its "100 days"
• Mar 10 Major earthquake (6.4 magnitude) in Long Beach, California kills 120, and destroys 70 school buildings
• Mar 10 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
• Mar 12 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
• Mar 13 American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday

• Mar 14 US Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation program
• Mar 15 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
• Mar 16 Adolf Hitler names Hjalmar Schacht as President of Bank of Germany
• Mar 18 Radio Clube de Mocambique's 1st radio transmission
• Mar 18 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
• Mar 20 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed
• Mar 21 Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February; Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg shake hands in public
• Mar 22 FDR signs the Cullen-Harrison Act, legalizing the sale of beer and wine with up to 3.2% alcohol
• Mar 23 German Reichstag hastily passes the Enabling Act and President Paul von Hindenburg signs it the same day, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
• Mar 23 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
• Mar 24 92nd Grand National: Dudley Williams aboard 25/1 chance Kellsboro' Jack wins by 3 lengths and a neck from Really True
• Mar 24 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
• Mar 27 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
• Mar 27 Japan leaves League of Nations
• Mar 27 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
• Mar 28 1st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 46-27
• Mar 31 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
• Mar 31 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
• Apr 1 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

• Apr 1 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses
• Apr 1 Scotland beats Ireland, 8-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
• Apr 3 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
• Apr 3 Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
• Apr 4 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]
• Apr 7 'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer
• Apr 7 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
• Apr 7 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
• Apr 8 Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror
• Apr 11 Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia
• Apr 12 US Navy commissions Air Station Sunnyvale (later renamed NAS Moffatt Field) in Santa Clara county, California (at the southern end of San Francisco Bay)
• Apr 13 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)

• Apr 17 37th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson in 2:31:01.6
• Apr 17 Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL Game beating NY Giants 23-21
• Apr 19 FDR announces US will leave gold standard

• Apr 22 Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address
• Apr 23 Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
• Apr 25 NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
• Apr 25 Philadelphia Phillies' Dick Bartell is 1st MLB player to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 innings
• Apr 26 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
• Apr 27 Adolf Hitler authorizes creation of Ministry of Aviation, in part to revive the German Luftwaffe, under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering
• Apr 27 Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership's first shop outside London.
• Apr 27 Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Washington, D.C.
• May 2 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
• May 3 Nellie T Ross the 1st female director of the US Mint takes office

• May 6 59th Kentucky Derby: Don Meade aboard Brokers Tip wins in 2:06.8
• May 6 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement

• May 9 Spanish anarchists call for general strike
• May 10 Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms
• May 10 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
• May 10 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
• May 10 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banished to Netherlands
• May 12 Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers
• May 13 58th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02
• May 15 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
• May 16 Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game

• May 18 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
• May 18 First MLB All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park; to be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair; fans to pick players
• May 18 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
• May 21 Mount Davidson Cross, San Francisco, lit by FDR via telegraph
• May 22 First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster by Aldie and John Mackay saw "something resembling a whale"
• May 22 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated

• May 26 2nd emergency Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn forms

• May 27 Austrian communist party banned
• May 27 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
• May 27 Federal Securities Act signed
• May 27 Martin Heidegger gives his inaugural rectoral address on “The Self-Assertion of the German University”, taken by some take as supporting the Nazi regime
• May 27 Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
• May 27 Walt Disney's short film "3 Little Pigs" released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934)
• May 30 Indianapolis 500: Louis Meyer wins accompanied by riding mechanic Lawson Harris; Mark Billman killed in a crash on lap 79; Lester Spangler and riding mechanic "Monk" Jordan die in a crash on lap 132
• May 30 Patent on invisible glass installation
• Jun 1 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
• Jun 2 FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
• Jun 2 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
• Jun 3 A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11

• Jun 5 French Championship Women's Tennis: England's Margaret Scriven is first woman from that country to win the singles title in Paris; beats Simonne Mathieu 6-2, 4-6, 6-4

• Jun 5 US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
• Jun 6 Richard Hollingshead opens the world's 1st Drive-In movie theater on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken, New Jersey
• Jun 6 US Employment Service created

• Jun 9 Spanish president Niceto Alcalá-Zamora takes power

• Jun 10 65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6

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