June 1933 in History

Events in History

Jun 1 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
Jun 2 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air

Catholic Encyclical

Jun 3 Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"

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

Bonnie & Clyde Crash

Jun 10 Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker flip their car into a ravine. Parker suffers serious third degree burns from the accident which would affect her for the rest of her life.

Dillinger Robs 1st Bank

Jun 10 John Dillinger robs his first bank, in New Carlisle, Ohio. He takes $10, 600

Jun 12 Financial and Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
Jun 13 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady, NY)
Jun 13 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized

Gestapo Established

Jun 13 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering

Jun 16 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
Jun 16 US National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
Jun 17 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob
Jun 19 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' government bans Nazi organizations
Jun 21 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
Jun 22 German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden
Jun 30 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
Jun 30 US Assay Offices close in Helena, MT, Boise, ID and Salt Lake City, UT

Birthdays in History

Jun 1 Charles Wilson, American politician (Rep-D-TX, 1973-97), born in Trinity, Texas (d. 2010)
Jun 3 Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, 1st emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), born in Jasra, Bahrain (d. 1999)
Jun 4 John Sparrow, Chairman (British Horserace Betting Levy Board)
Jun 6 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986), born in Buchs, Switzerland (d. 2013)
Jun 7 Henk Koning, Dutch State Secretary of Finances (VVD), born in Beilen, Netherlands (d. 2016)
Jun 8 Dr Robert Stevens, British lawyer and Master (Pembroke College, Oxford)
Jun 8 Eric Parker, English industrialist, deputy CEO (Trafalgar House), born in Shropshire, England (d. 2014)
Jun 9 Don Young, American politician (US Representative from Alaska (R), 1973- 2022), born in Meridian, California (d. 2022)
Jun 10 F. Lee Bailey, American criminal defense attorney (Sam Shepard; Boston Strangler; Patty Hearst; OJ Simpson), born in Waltham, Massachusetts (d. 2021)
Jun 10 Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Communist politician (Prime Minister 1986-90) (d. 2022)
Jun 12 Eddie Adams, American photographer (photograph of execution of a Viet Cong soldier, Pulitzer Prize 1969), born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
Jun 13 Tom King, British politician and minister (C), born in Rugby
Jun 14 Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There), born in Łódź, Poland (d. 1991)
Jun 15 Mohammad Ali Rajai, President of Iran (1981) who was assassinated by a bomb while in office, born in Qazvin, Persia (d. 1981)
Jun 16 Joachim Nowotny, German writer, born in Rietschen, Germany (d. 2014)
Jun 17 Anthony Bevilacqua, Roman Catholic Cardinal (Philadelphia), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)

Jun 17 Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst (d. 2006)
Jun 19 Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), born in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, Soviet Union (d. 1971)
Jun 20 Claire Tomalin, English biographer and editor, born in London, England
Jun 20 Earl of Cranbrook, CEO (Nature Conservancy Council)
Jun 20 Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist 'European father of the internet' (Internet Protocol,), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2020)
Jun 22 Dianne Feinstein, American politician, 1st female mayor of San Francisco (1978-88), (Senator-D-Ca 1992-), born in San Francisco, California
Jun 25 Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect, born in Matosinhos, Portugal

James Meredith (90 years old)

Jun 25 American civil rights activist (1st African-American at the University of Mississippi), born in Kosciusko, Mississippi

Jun 25 Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist (glass painter), born in Biella, Italy
Jun 26 David Winnick, British Labour Party MP, born in Brighton, Sussex, England
Jun 28 Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician and leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2011)
Jun 29 John Bradshaw, American theologian, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)