December 1933 in History

Events in History

Dec 1 Rudolf Hess & Ernest Rohm become ministers in Hitler government

Dec 4 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration

Dec 6 Ban on James Joyce's "Ulysses" in US lifted

Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"

Dec 2 K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
Dec 3 Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
Dec 5 Edward Daly, Irish Bishop "Bloody Sunday" priest, born in Belleek, County Fermanagh (d. 2016)
Dec 11 Earnest P van Altena, author/interpreter (Chansons van Earnest)
Dec 11 Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician
Dec 15 Tim Conway, Willoughby Oh, comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
Dec 15 Donald Woods, South African journalist, anti-apartheid activist and author (Biko, Asking for Trouble), born in Elliotdale, South Africa (d. 2001)
Dec 17 Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet
Dec 18 Arthur Leigh Allen, Suspected Zodiac serial killer (d. 1992)
Dec 20 Gordon Getty, son and heir of J. Paul Getty, born in Los Angeles
Dec 20 Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator
Dec 21 Huib Eversdijk, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
Dec 23 Akihito, emperor of Japan (1989- )
Dec 28 John Y. Brown, Jr., American politician
Dec 31 Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, Athens Greece, Greek American artist

Dec 4 Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
Dec 11 Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
Dec 17 Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
Dec 17 Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama, dies at 57
Dec 19 George Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1857)
Dec 21 Knud J. V. Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54
Dec 25 Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
Dec 26 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, author and literary critic, dies at 58
Dec 29 Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered