1933

Years: 1930 1931 1932 - 1933 - 1934 1935 1936

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s

Events of 1933

January

• January 11 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
• January 15 - Political violence causes almost 100 deaths in Spain.
• January 17 - US Congress votes favorably for Philippines independence, against the view of President Herbert Hoover.
• January 30
  • Edouard Daladier forms a new government in France.
  • Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.

February

• February 1 - Adolf Hitler makes his "Proclamation to the German People" in Berlin.
• February 4 - Mutiny starts on the Dutch pantserschip De Zeven Provinciën.
• February 9 - The Oxford Union approves a resolution stating, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for King and country."
• February 15 - In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
• February 17
  • The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
  • The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
• February 27 - Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire by a Communist.
• February 28 - Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in response to the Reichstag fire.

March

• March 3 A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honshū, Japan killing some 3,000.
• March 4 USA President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in reference to the Great Depression, gives his "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" inauguration speech. FDR is sworn in.
• 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).
  • In German new General Election, National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes.
• March 10 - Earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 117 people.
• March 15 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises from $53.84 to $62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains to date as the largest one-day percentage gain for the index.
• March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act in Germany.
• March 24 - Judea Declares War on Germany
• March 27 - The Japanese Empire leaves the League of Nations.

April

• April 1 - Julius Streicher organizes a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
• April 3 - Anti-monarchist rebellion in Siam (Thailand).
• April 4 - US airship Akron crashes off the coast of New Jersey- 73 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 Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service passed in Germany
• April 11 - Aviator William Lancaster takes off in England in an attempt to make a speed record to the Cape of Good Hope. He vanishes. His body is not found until 1962, in the Sahara Desert.
• April 19 - The United States officially goes off the gold standard.
• April 21 - Germany outlaws kosher ritual slaughter, (shechita).
• April 26 - Gestapo established.
• April 27 - Stahlhelmbund organizations joins the NSDAP in Germany.

May

• May 2 - German Government bans trade unions.
• May 10 - Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
• May 17 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling - the National Socialist party of Norway.
• May 26 - Germany introduces Eugenics legislation.

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 12 - London Economic Conference.
• June 21 - All non-National Socialist parties banned in Germany.
• June 25 - Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegate convention in Berlin

July

• July 4 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi sentenced to prison.
• July 14 - Forming new political parties forbidden in Germany.
• July 14 - German Reichstag passes The Denaturalization Law which applied to those deemed "undesirable" and to anyone who had been given new citizenship under the Weimar Republic.
• July 20 - Vatican state secretary Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) signs an Accord with Hitler.
• 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.

August - September

• August 30 - Assassination of Theodore Lessing in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia
• August 30 - Air France begins operations with 250 planes.
• September 3 - Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain.
• September 26 - Tornado destroys the town of Tampico in Mexico.

October

• 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 Federal Bureau of Prisons as a federal penitentiary.
• October 16 - Germany announces intention to leave the League of Nations.

November

• November 5 - Spanish Basques voted for autonomy.
• 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 16
  • United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
  • President of Brazil Getulio Vargas declares himself dictator
• November 19 - General Elections in the Spanish Second Republic, victory by the parties of the Right.

December

• December 5 - The 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition in the United States, went into effect.
• December 21 - British Plastics Federation founded - oldest plastics federation in the world
• December 24 - Train crash in Lagny, France - over 200 dead
• December 26
  • The Nissan Motor Company was founded in Tokyo, Japan.
  • FM radio is patented.
• December 29 - Members of the Iron Guard assassinate Ion Gheorghe Duca, Prime Minister of Romania

Births

• May 11 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
• August 2 - Goren Assar Oredsson, Swedish National Socialist leader (d. 2010)
• September 11 - William Luther Pierce, American author, White nationalist and founder of the National Alliance (d. 2002)

Deaths

• January 5 - John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
• September 8 - Theodor Fritsch, German publisher and author (b. 1852)