1933 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1933?
- January 3, 1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
- January 26, 1933 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 6, 1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.
- February 17, 1933 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time.
- February 20, 1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
- February 25, 1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
- February 27, 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- March 9, 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
- March 20, 1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida’s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- May 10, 1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
- May 17, 1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
- May 18, 1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- May 27, 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
- July 22, 1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15596 mi in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
- August 14, 1933 – 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 acre.
- October 10, 1933 – United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
- October 12, 1933 – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
- October 14, 1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
- November 7, 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
- December 26, 1933 – FM radio is patented.
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