1933

January 2

• Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th). [1]
• US troops leave Nicaragua. [1]

January 3

• Wilhelm Cuno German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at age 56. [1]

January 4

• Lucas Lindeboom Dutch evangelist (Vredebond), dies at age 87. [1]
• In an attempt to gain power, Franz von Papen makes a deal with Adolf Hitler and is able to have him appointed chancellor of Germany. Von Papen believed he would be able to control Hitler and the Nazis. [37]

January 5

• French liner L'Atlantique (42,500 tons) burns out in the English Channel, with no passengers, en route to Le Havre. The ship is a total write-off. [260.98]
• Calvin Coolidge 30th President (1923-29), dies in Northampton Massachusetts at age 60. [1]
• Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating for the structure's anchorages. [1] [129] [443.40]

January 7

• First edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands. [1]

January 9

• Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction. [1]

January 12

• US Congress recognize independence Philippines. [1]
• Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies. [1]
• Vaclav Suk composer, dies at age 71. [1]

January 16

• Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test. [1]

January 18

• White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established. [1]

January 23

• 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20. [1]

January 24

• Noël Coward's "Design for Living" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]

January 27

• Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold. [1]

January 28

• French government of Paul Boncour falls. [1]
• German government of Von Schleicher falls. [1]
• Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus] German classicist/writer, dies at age 80. [1]

January 30

• "The Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC radio. [1]
• German President Paul von Hindenburg offers Chancellorship to Adolf Hitler, who accepts. [10]
• Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland second inn, 13-135 for match. [1]

January 31

• French government of Daladier takes power. [1]
• Hitler promises parliamentary democracy. [1]
• John Galsworthy England, writer (Forsythe, Nobel Prize 1932), dies at age 65. [1]

February 1

• Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname. [1]
• Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions. [1]
• German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe. [1]

February 2

• Two days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament. [1]
• Adolf Hitler meets with a group of generals and admirals at the home of General von Hammerstein. He assures them they could begin a rearmament program, in defiance of the Versailles Treaty. [10]
• Göring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany. [1]
• Ucicky's "Rotten Morning" premieres in Berlin. [1]

February 3

• First interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington DC. [1]
• German Chancellor Adolf Hitler tells his top generals of his determination to conquer land, to the east. [10]
• German minister Göring bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwärts. [1]
• Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin. [1]

February 4

• Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts. [1]
• German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press. [1]

February 5

• Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary. [1]

February 6

• -90 degrees F (-68 degrees C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record). [1]
• 20th Amendment goes into effect; Presidential term begins in Jan not March. [1]
• Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 metres (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila. [1]
• President von Hindenburg and von Papen end Prussian parliament. [1]

February 7

• Albert György Earl Apponyi Hung minister of Education, dies at age 86. [1]
• Colonial troops in Suriname kill two demonstrators. [1]
• Social-Democrat meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead. [1]

February 8

• -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Seminole Texas (state record). [1]
• First flight of all-metal Boeing 247. [1]

February 9

• -63 degrees F (-53 degrees C), Moran Wyoming (state record). [1]

February 10

• -54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Seneca Oregon (state record). [1]
• Delivery of first singing telegram (Postal Telegram Company New York City). [1]
• Dutch sea-plane bombs Dutch ship. [1]
• Hitler proclaims end of Marxism. [1]
• Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began February 4th), 23 killed. [1]

February 12

• German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis. [1]
• Henri Duparc French composer, dies at age 85. [1]

February 15

• Anton J Cermak (Mayor-Democrat-Chicago), assassinated in Miami. [1]
• Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party. [1]
• President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt. [1]
• Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwärts" banned again in Berlin. [1]

February 16

• Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis/communists. [1]
• England regains the Ashes, thanks to bodyline tactics. [1]

February 17

• First issue of "Newsweek" magazine published. [1]
• Blondie Boopadoop marries Dagwood Bumstead; Dagwood's father promptly disinherits him. [1]
• Henri[cus A] Viotta Dutch composer (Handbook of Music), dies at age 84. [1]
• Marinus van der Lubbe arrives in Glindow, at Potsdam. [1]
• US Senate accept Blaine Act ending prohibition. [1]

February 19

• Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn composer, dies at age 77. [1]
• Prussian minister Göring bans all Catholic newspapers. [1]

February 20

• Curom, Curaçaose Broadcast System starts Princess Juliana's speech. [1]
• House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition. [1]
• Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]

February 22

• Göring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50. [1]

February 24

• Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin. [1]
• League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria. [1]
• Spottiswoode Aitken actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at age 64. [1]

February 25

• First genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger. [1]

February 26

• Antonio Nicolau Spanish composer/conductor, dies at age 74. [1]
• Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field. [1]
• Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell. [1]

February 27

• German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists). [1]
• Jean Genet's "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris. [1]

February 28

• First female in cabinet Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor. [1]
• German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion. [1]
• Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD). [1]

March 1

• Bank holidays declared in six states, to prevent run on banks. [1]

March 2

• "King Kong" premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City. [1]
• Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan. [1]

March 3

• German Presidential candidate Earnest Thälmann (KPD) arrested. [1]
• Mount Rushmore dedicated. [1]
• New York City, New York premiere of "King Kong". [1]

March 4

• Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament. [1]
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. [1] [129] [434.60]
• Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, first US woman cabinet member. [1]
• Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in New York City. [1]
• Willie Walker US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at age 36. [1]
• By the end of the day, banks in 32 of the 48 US states are closed. [434.60]

March 5

• Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9 percent - 17.2 million votes). [1]

March 6

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday," closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions. [1] [410.84] (March 5 [1] [5])
• Anton J Cermak US mayor of Chicago, dies. [1]
• Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]
• Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk). [1]

March 7

• Game of "Monopoly" invented. [1]

March 9

• Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin. [1]
• US Congress is called into special session by Franklin Roosevelt, and begins its "100 days". [1]

March 10

• Major earthquake in Long Beach California. [1]
• Nevada becomes first US state to regulate narcotics. [1]

March 12

• US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address or "fireside chat," broadcast directly from the White House. [1] [5] [129] [392.41]

March 13

• Banks re-open in the USA. [1]
• Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda. [1]

March 14

• Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation. [1]
• In the British House of Commons, Winston Churchill urges creation of an air force adequate to defend the civilian population. [10]

March 15

• The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes with a record one-day percentage gain of 15.34 percent. [227]
• NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination. [1]

March 16

• Alfred Her Hungarian mathematician, dies at age 47. [1]
• Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany. [1]

March 17

• Ferdinand Von Alten actor (Champagne), dies at age 48. [1]

March 18

• Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at age 60. [1]
• Radio Clube de Mocambique's, first radio transmission. [1]

March 20

• Dachau, first concentration camp, completed. [1]
• Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara electrocuted for assassination attempt on Franklin Roosevelt. [1]

March 21

• Hitler, Göring, Prince Ruprecht, Brüning and top army meet in Berlin. [1]

March 22

• Franklin Roosevelt makes wine and beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal. [1]

March 23

• Winston Churchill urges the British government not to press for French disarmament while Germany is busy rearming. [10]
• Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers. [1]
• Kroll Opera in Berlin opens. [1]

March 24

• Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency. [1]

March 27

• Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized. [1]
• Japan leaves League of Nations. [1]
• Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett. [1]

March 29

• Alexander Schmuller Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at age 52. [1]

March 31

• First newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia). [1]
• US Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps. [1]
• German Republic gives power to Hitler. [1]

April 1

• Frederick Lord Chelmsford viceroy of British-India (1916-21), dies at age 64. [1]
• Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany. [1]
• Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses. [1]

April 3

• First airplane flight over Mount Everest. [1]

April 4

• US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die. [1]

April 5

• US President Franklin Roosevelt issues Executive Order 6102, requiring public to turn in gold certificates, bullion, and coins for placement in the Federal Reserve. [434.60] [485.38]

April 7

• First two Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal and public service. [1]
• Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered. [1]
• Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment. [1]
• University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic. [1]

April 8

• Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror. [1]

April 9

• Sigfrid Karg-Elert composer, dies at age 55. [1]

April 11

• Hermann Göring becomes premier of Prussia. [1]

April 12

• Moffatt Field commissioned. [1]

April 13

• First flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale). [1]

April 19

• Franklin Roosevelt announces US will leave the gold standard. [1] [400.56]

April 20

• US suspends convertibility of paper money to gold. [488.36]

April 22

• Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address. [1]
• Frederick Henry Royce motorcar pioneer, dies. [1]

April 25

• US and Canada drop Gold Standard. [1]

April 26

• Jewish students are barred from school in Germany. [1]

April 27

• Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Washington DC. [1]

April 28

• Robin Irvine actor (Easy Virtue), dies at age 31. [1]

April 30

• Luis Sanchez Cerro President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza. [1]

May 2

• Scottish newspaper Inverness Courier reports on a couple's claim to have seen "an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface" of Loch Ness. [129]
• In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions. [1]

May 4

• Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador). [1]

May 6

• Italy and USSR sign trade agreement. [1]

May 9

• Spanish anarchists call for general strike. [1]

May 10

• Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms. [1]
• Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany. [1]
• Paraguay declares war on Bolivia. [1]
• Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands. [1]

May 12

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers. [1]

May 13

• Paul Ernst writer, dies at age 67. [1]

May 15

• First voice amplification system to be used in US Senate. [1]
• Ernest Torrence actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at age 54. [1]

May 18

• Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by Franklin Roosevelt, to build dams. [1]

May 21

• John Henry Mackay Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at age 69. [1]
• Mount Davidson Cross lit by Franklin Roosevelt via telegraph. [1]

May 22

• US Congress declares all currency in circulation legal tender dollar for dollar as if it were gold. [407.60] [412.84]
• Loch Ness Monster is first reportedly sighted by John Mackay. [1]
• World Trade Day/National Maritime Day first celebrated. [1]

May 24

• Dmitri Shostakovich's Preludes, premieres in Moscow. [1]

May 26

• Second emergency Dutch Government of Colijn forms. [1]
• Jimmie Rodgers country singer, dies at age 35. [1]

May 27

• Austrian communist party banned. [1]
• Federal Securities Act signed. [1]
• Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released. [1]

May 30

• Patent on invisible glass installation. [1]

June 2

• WNJ-AM in Newark New Jersey goes off the air. [1]

June 3

• Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain". [1]

June 6

• Richard Hollingshead opens the first drive-in cinema, in Camden, New Jersey, on a 10-acre site, with room for 400 cars. The screen is 40x30 feet. [1] [5] [55.39]
• US Employment Service created. [1]

June 13

• First sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady New York). [1]
• Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized. [1]

June 15

• C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya and #1279 Uganda. [1]

June 16

• National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down). [1]
• US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created. [1]

June 21

• First Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans. [1]

June 29

• Death of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; actor (Keystone Comedies, Mabel and Fatty). [1] [5]

June 30

• US Assay Offices in Helena Montana, Boise Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah closes. [1]

July 1

• G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1590 Tsiolkovskaja. [1]

July 4

• Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge. [1]

July 8

• Public Works Administration becomes effective. [1]

July 9

• Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles. [1]

July 12

• Congress establishes the first minimum wage law at 33 cents per hour. [1] [418.44]

July 15

• Wiley Post begins first solo flight around the world. [1]

July 22

• Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight. [1]

July 24

• K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1645 Waterfield, #1668 Hanna. [1]

July 27

• G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1312 Vassar. [1]
• K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1284 Latvia. [1]

July 28

• First singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City. [1]

August 1

• NRA (National Recovery Administration) established. [1]

August 11

• Temp reaches 136 degrees F (58 degrees C) at San Luis Potosí, Mexico (world record). [1]

September 4

• First airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois. [1]

September 12

• Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. [5]

September 14

• Two billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire. [1]

October 8

• Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco, a monument to firefighters. [1]

October 10

• First synthetic detergent for home use marketed. [1]

October 12

• Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially). [1]
• John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, Ohio, jail. [1]

October 14

• Germany withdraws from the Disarmament Conference at Geneva, Switzerland. [10]

October 17

• Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany. [1]

October 21

• German Chancellor Adolf Hitler withdraws Germany from the League of Nations. [10]

November 4

• Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young. [1]

November 5

• Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0). [1]

November 7

• Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports. [1]

November 8

• Franklin Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration. [1]
• King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig. [1]

November 11

• "Great Black Blizzard" first great dust storm in the Great Plains. [1]

November 12

• First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken. [1]
• Nazis receive 92 percent of vote in Germany. [1]

November 13

• First modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minnesota. [1]

November 16

• Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR. [1]

November 21

• First US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service. [1]

November 25

• First Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m). [1]

November 29

• First state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania). [1]

December 1

• Rudolf Hess and Earnest Röhm become a minister in Hitler government. [1]

December 2

• First transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson). [1]
• Fred Astaire's first film, "Dancing Lady" is released. [1]
• Josef Gruber composer, dies at age 78. [1]

December 3

• Richard Henry Warren composer, dies at age 74. [1]

December 4

• Franklin Roosevelt creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration. [1]
• Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road" premieres in New York City, New York. [1]
• Stefan George German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at age 65. [1]

December 5

• 21st Amendment ratified, only amendment adopted to repeal an earlier amendment [18th Amendment (Prohibition)] (5:32 PM EST). [1]

December 6

• Auguste Chapuis composer, dies at age 75. [1]
• Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US, lifted. [1]

December 9

• Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard. [1]

December 11

• Emile C Wauters Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at age 87. [1]

December 12

• Theodore Moses Tobani composer, dies at age 78. [1]

December 14

• Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam. [1]

December 16

• Abe de Vries and Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht. [1]

December 17

• Hans Vaihinger German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at age 81. [1]
• Spain's second Government of Lerroux forms. [1]

December 19

• Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized. [1]

December 20

• Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire. [1]

December 21

• 20th Century Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract. [1]
• Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania. [1]
• Knud J V Rasmussen Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at age 54. [1]
• Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony. [1]

December 23

• Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death. [1]
• Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die. [1]

December 24

• Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France). [1]

December 25

• Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor. [1]

December 26

• FM radio is patented. [5]
• Lunatscharski writer, dies. [1]
• US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere. [1]

December 29

• Joh Georghe Duca premier of Romania, murdered. [1]

December 30

• -50 degrees F (-46 degrees C) in Bloomfield VT (state record). [1]
• Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service. [1]