May 1933 in History

Events in History

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May 2 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

May 3 Nellie T Ross the 1st female director of the US Mint takes office

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May 4 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador)

May 6 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement

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May 8 Mahatma Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India

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 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

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May 17 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway

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

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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

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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 30 Patent on invisible glass installation

Birthdays in History

May 10 Barbara Taylor Bradford, author

Louis Farrakhan (89 years old)

May 11 American religious leader (Nation of Islam, Million Man March), born in New York City

May 12 Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet, born in Moscow, Soviet Union (d. 2010)
May 13 Sid Morrison, American politician (Rep-R-WA, 1981-93), born in Yakima, Washington
May 18 Bernadette Chirac, French politician and wife of President Jacques Chirac, born in Paris, France
May 18 H. D. [Haradanahalli Doddegowda] Deve Gowda, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1996-97), born in Haradanahalli, Kingdom of Mysore
May 23 Bruce A Peterson, US test pilot (M2, HL-10)
May 23 Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture & land & fishing (CDA)
May 24 Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox Jewish rabbi, born in Paris (d. 2015)
May 24 Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal (d. 2014)
May 24 Jane Byrne, American politician and 50th Mayor of Chicago, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2014)
May 24 Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, Spanish painter, born in Madrid (d. 2010)
May 24 Tony Mullett, dir-general (National Criminal Intelligence Service)
May 28 Philip Otton, high court judge
May 30 Sid Mark [Fliegelman], American disc jockey and 'Frank-ophile' (The Sounds of Sinatra, 1960-2022), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 2022)

Deaths in History

May 13 Paul Ernst, German writer, dies at 67
May 21 John Henry Mackay, Scottish German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
May 25 James E. Kelly, American sculptor "Sculptor of American History", dies at 77
May 26 Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
May 27 Jean de Merode, Belgian lieutenant colonel, Grand Marshal of the Court of Belgium, and Prince de Merode, dies at 65