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1933
1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
February
March
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March 1 - Kyriakos Varvaressos becomes Deputy Governor to the Bank of Greece
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March 3 - Mount Rushmore is dedicated.
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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.
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March 4 Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
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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).
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March 5 - in German elections, National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes
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March 9 - Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
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March 10 - Earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 117 people.
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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".
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March 20 - Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed - opened March 22
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March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
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March 27 - Japan leaves the League of Nations
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March 31 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Year in topic
Births
January
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January 6 - Emil Steinberger, cabaretist
- January 6 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (d. 2003)
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January 8 - Charles Osgood, journalist, commentator
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January 14 - Stan Brakhage, filmmaker (d. 2003)
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January 16 - Susan Sontag, author (d. 2004)
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January 17 - Dalida, French singer
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January 18 - John Boorman, director
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January 23 - Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
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January 25 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
February
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February 8 - Elly Ameling, soprano
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February 12 - Costa-Gavras, director, writer
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February 13 - Kim Novak, actress
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February 18 - Yoko Ono, singer, artist, wife of John Lennon
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February 21 - Nina Simone, singer
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February 22- Katharine, Duchess of Kent.
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February 26 - Godfrey Cambridge , actor (d. 1976)
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February 27 - Raymond Berry, American football player
March
April
May
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May 3 - James Brown, musician
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May 7 - Johnny Unitas, American football star (d. 2002)
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May 10 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer
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May 11 - Louis Farrakhan, Black Muslim leader
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May 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor
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May 21 - Maurice André, trumpet
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May 23 - Joan Collins, actress
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May 29 - Marc Carbonneau, taxi driver and FLQ terrorist
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May 29 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
- May 29 - Edward Whittemore, American writer and CIA agent
June
July
August
September
November
December
Deaths
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
October
November
December
Last updated: 10-24-2005 02:37:09
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