1933

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[edit] January

• January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
• January 11 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
• January 15 - Political violence has caused almost 100 deaths in Spain
• January 17 - US Congress votes favorable for Philippines independence, against the view of president Hoover
• January 30 - Edouard Daladier forms a government in France
• January 30 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
• January 30 - The first airing of episode 1 of 2,956 episodes of the radio program The Lone Ranger.

[edit] February

• February 4 - Mutiny starts on the Dutch pantserschip Zeven Provincien.
• February 6 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
• February 6-7 - Officers on the USS Ramapo record 34 meters high sea-wave in the Pacific
• February 10 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
• February 15 - In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead kills Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
• February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
• February 17 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
• February 27 - Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.

[edit] March

• March 1 - Kyriakos Varvaressos becomes Deputy Governor to the Bank of Greece
• March 2 - The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy Theater in New York City.
• March 3 - Mount Rushmore]] is dedicated.
• March 4 - American President Herbert Clark Hoover is succeeded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who in reference to the Great Depression, gives his "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" inauguration speech.
• March 4 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
• March 4 - The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree.
• March 5 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ended on March 13).
• March 5 - in German elections, National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes
• March 9 - Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
• March 10 - Earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 117 people.
• March 12 - Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats".
• March 20 - Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed - opened March 22
• March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
• March 27 - Japan leaves the League of Nations
• March 31 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.

[edit] April

• April 1 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
• April 3 - Anti-monarchist rebellion in Siam.
• April 4 - US airship Akron crashes near New York - 74 dead.
• April 5 - International court in the Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. Norway submits to the decision.
• April 7 - Beer is legalized in the US 8 months before the full repeal of Prohibition on December 5, 1933
• April 11 - Aviator William Lancaster takes off in England in an attempt to make a speed record to Cape. He vanishes (body is found 1962 in Sahara)
• April 21 - Nazi Germany outlaws kosher ritual shechita.
• April 23 - Japanese crown prince Akihito born
• April 26 - Gestapo established.
• April 26 - Editors of Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House. It is returned two days later.
• April 27 - Stahlhelm organizations joins the Nazi party

[edit] May

• May - Detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy reported
• May 2 - First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
• May 2 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
• May 8 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes
• May 10 - Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• May 10 - Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
• May 17 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Samling - the national-socialist party of Norway.
• May 18 - New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• May 26 - Nazi party in Germany introduces law to legalize eugenic sterilization
• May 27 - The Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.

[edit] June

• June 5 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
• June 6 - The first drive-in theater opened in Camden New Jersey.
• June 17 - In Kansas City, Missouri, Pretty Boy Floyd kills four unarmed FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash in a failed attempt to free Nash. This becomes known as the Union Station Massacre.
• June 21 - All non-Nazi parties forbidden in Germany
• June 26 - American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine at Arlington Park racetrack near Chicago.
• June 25 - Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegate convention in Berlin

[edit] July

• July 4 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi sentenced to prison
• July 14 - Forming new political parties forbidden in Germany.
• July 22 - Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world, traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours, and 45 minutes.
• July 22 - "Machine-Gun" Kelly and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demands $200,000 ransom.

[edit] August

• August 14 - Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (971 km²).
• August 30 - Assassination of Theodore Lessing in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia
• August 30 - Air France begins operations with 250 planes.

[edit] September

• September 3 - Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain.
• September 12 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury England, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
• September 26 - Tornado destroys the town of Tampico in Mexico.

[edit] October

• October 1 - Failed assassination attempt against Englebert Dolfuss]only injures him seriously.
• October 10 - A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed near Chesterton, Indiana by a bomb. This was the first proven case of air sabotage in commercial airline history.
• October 12 - The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz is acquired by the United States Department of Justice, which plans to incorporate the island into its Bureau of Prisons as a federal penitentiary.
• October 16 - Germany announces intention to leave the League of Nations - officially
• October 17 - Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

[edit] November

• November 4 - In Paris, a burglar tries to rob an antique store wearing an armor suit but is captured.
• November 8 - Great Depression: New Deal - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
• November 11 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands (this is just one of a series of disastrous dust storms that year).
• November 16 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
• November 16 - President of Brazil Getulio Vargas names himself dictator

[edit] December

• December 5 - The repeal of prohibition in the United States went into effect.
• December 24 - Train crash in Lagny, France - over 200 dead
• December 26 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan.
• December 26 - FM radio is patented.
• December 29 - Members of the Iron Guard assassinate Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania.

[edit] Undated

• British Interplanetary Society founded
• The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield.
• The United States Federal Government ends Prohibition and outlaws marijuana.
• London Passenger Transport Board founded.
• Nazi Germany forms the Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy under Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick.