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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1933

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Birthdays

January 1 - Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1967)
January 1 - Frederick Lowy, Canadian educator
January 1 - Norman Yemm, Australian actor
January 2 - Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006)
January 2 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
January 4 - Ilia II Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia.,
January 6 - Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
January 6 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
January 7 - Elliott Kastner, U.S. film producer
January 8 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
January 8 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
January 8 - Ko Un, Korean poet
January 9 - Robert Garcia, American politician
January 9 - Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
January 10 - Anton Rodgers, English actor (d. 2007)
January 12 - Michael Aspel, English broadcaster
January 14 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
January 15 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author
January 16 - Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
January 17 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
January 17 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
January 17 - Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998)
January 18 - John Boorman, Irish film director
January 18 - Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system)
January 20 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (d. 2001)
January 21 - Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007)
January 23 - Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer
January 25 - Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines
January 26 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
January 27 - Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian billionaire businessman
January 28 - Jack Hill, American film director
January 29 - Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
January 29 - Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
January 29 - Paul Sally, American mathematician
January 30 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
January 31 - Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997)
January 31 - Bernardo Provenzano, Mafia Boss
February 2 - Tony Jay, English actor (d. 2006)
February 2 - Than Shwe, ruler of Myanmar
February 3 - Paul Sarbanes, American politician
February 5 - Jörn Donner, Finnish writer/director
February 6 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)
February 7 - John Anderton, English footballer
February 8 - Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
February 8 - Jack Larson, American actor
February 9 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (d. 2003)
February 10 - Richard Schickel, American film critic
February 13 - Paul Biya, Cameroon politician
February 13 - Costa Gavras, Greek-French filmmaker
February 13 - Kim Novak, American actress
February 13 - Caroline Blakiston, British actress
February 14 - Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
February 17 - Bobby Lewis, American singer
February 17 - Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
February 18 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer
February 18 - Sir Bobby Robson, English football manager
February 18 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)
February 21 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
February 22 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent
February 22 - Bobby Smith, English footballer
February 24 - Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher
February 27 - Raymond Berry, American football player
February 28 - Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (d.1989)
February 28 - Miro Steržaj, Slovenian 9-pin bowler
February 28 - Rein Taagepera, Estonian politician
March 3 - Marco Antonio Muñiz, Mexican singer (Los Tres Aces)
March 3 - Margaret Fink, Australian film producer
March 3 - Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive
March 3 - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor
March 4 - Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
March 4 - John W Mills, British sculptor
March 4 - Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver
March 5 - Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (d. 2005)
March 5 - Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1982)
March 6 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
March 7 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
March 8 - Luca Ronconi, Italian theater and opera director
March 8 - Evelyn Margaret Ay, American beauty pageant winner
March 9 - Mel Lastman, Canadian politician
March 9 - Lloyd Price, American singer
March 13 - Mike Stoller, American songwriter
March 14 - Sir Michael Caine, British actor
March 14 - René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
March 14 - Quincy Jones, American musician and composer
March 15 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurist
March 15 - Philippe de Broca, French film director (d. 2004)
March 16 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
March 19 - Philip Roth, American author
March 19 - Renée Taylor, American actress
March 20 - George Altman, American baseball player
March 20 - Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
March 21 - Michael Heseltine, English politician
March 22 - Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
March 22 - May Britt, Swedish actress
March 23 - Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist
March 28 - Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
March 28 - Frank Murkowski, American politician
March 29 - Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet
March 30 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
March 31 - Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
April 1 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist
April 1 - Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)
April 4 - Bill France, Jr.
April 5 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist
April 5 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)
April 6 - Roy Goode, British lawyer
April 6 - Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)
April 7 - Wayne Rogers, American actor
April 8 - Fred Ebb, American composer (d. 2004)
April 9 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
April 10 - Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author
April 11 - Tony Brown, American journalist
April 12 - Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
April 13 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. politician
April 15 - Roy Clark, American musician
April 15 - David Hamilton, British photographer
April 15 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
April 15 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian author
April 16 - Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
April 19 - Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
April 19 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
April 24 - Patricia Bosworth, American actor
April 24 - Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
April 24 - Alan Eagleson, Canadian ice hockey agent and promoter
April 24 - Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor
April 24 - Freddie Scott, American singer (d. 2007)
April 25 - Jerry Leiber, American composer
April 26 - Carol Burnett, American comedian
April 26 - Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist
April 26 - Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
April 29 - Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
April 29 - Rod McKuen, American poet and composer
April 30 - Dickie Davies, British television presenter
April 30 - Willie Nelson, American musician
May 3 - James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
May 3 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist
May 3 - Alex Cord, American actor
May 4 - J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher
May 7 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002)
May 7 - Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer
May 10 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
May 11 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
May 12 - Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet
May 14 - Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector
May 14 - Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
May 18 - Bernadette Chirac, French politician
May 21 - Maurice André, French trumpeter
May 23 - Joan Collins, English actress
May 24 - Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
May 25 - Ray Spencer, English footballer
May 27 - Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur
May 29 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
May 31 - Henry B. Eyring, LDS apostle
June 1 - Charles Wilson, American politician
June 3 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
June 6 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist
June 8 - Joan Rivers, American comedian and author
June 10 - Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Prime Minister
June 10 - F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
June 11 - Gene Wilder, American actor
June 12 - Eddie Adams, American photographer
June 13 - Tom King, British politician
June 14 - Jerzy Kosinski, Polish author (d. 1991)
June 14 - Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
June 15 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (d. 2005)
June 15 - Mark Jones, English footballer (d. 1958)
June 17 - Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer
June 17 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
June 17 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (d. 1970)
June 19 - Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut
June 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor
June 22 - Dianne Feinstein, American politician
June 22 - Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007)
June 22 - Libor Pešek, Czech conductor
June 25 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
June 25 - Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
June 26 - Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
June 26 - Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)
June 28 - Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
June 29 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
June 29 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
June 30 - Lea Massari, Italian actress
June 30 - Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player
July 2 - Kenny Wharram, Canadian hockey player
July 3 - Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
July 6 - Frank Austin, English footballer
July 7 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
July 7 - David McCullough, American historian and author
July 8 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
July 8 - Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice
July 12 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
July 13 - Patsy Byrne, English actress
July 14 - Robert Bourassa, Quebec politician (d. 1996)
July 15 - Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
July 15 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
July 17 - Bruce Wells, British boxer & actor
July 17 - Tony Pithey, Former South African Cricketer (d. 2006)
July 18 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
July 18 - Syd Mead, American industrial and conceptual designer
July 18 - Jean Yanne, French film actor and director (d. 2003)
July 20 - Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
July 20 - Cormac McCarthy, American author
July 20 - Rex Williams, English snooker player
July 21 - John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
July 23 - Bert Convy, American game show host and performer (d. 1991)
July 24 - Doug Sanders, American golfer
July 24 - John Aniston, American actor; father of Jennifer Aniston
July 27 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
July 27 - Nick Reynolds, American folk singer
July 28 - Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
July 29 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
July 29 - Colin Davis, British racing driver
July 29 - Robert Fuller, American actor
July 30 - Edd Byrnes, American actor
July 31 - Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
August 1 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
August 1 - Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
August 1 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
August 1 - Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
August 3 - Pat Crawford, Former Australian cricketer
August 6 - A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
August 7 - Eddie Firmani, South African football player and coach
August 8 - Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
August 8 - Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (d. 2007)
August 9 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
August 10 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
August 10 - Rocky Colavito, American baseball player
August 10 - Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; d. 2005)
August 11 - Jerry Falwell, American preacher (d. 2007)
August 12 - Parnelli Jones, American race car driver and team owner
August 13 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders, American physician
August 14 - Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
August 15 - Bobby Helms, American pop singer (d. 1997)
August 15 - Jim Lange, American game show host
August 16 - Julie Newmar, American actress
August 16 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (d. 1994)
August 17 - Eugene F. Kranz, American NASA executive
August 17 - Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
August 18 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
August 18 - Just Fontaine, French footballer
August 20 - George J. Mitchell, former United States Senator
August 21 - Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
August 23 - Robert Curl, American chemist
August 23 - Pete Wilson, Governor of California
August 25 - Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician
August 25 - Tom Skerritt, American actor
August 29 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
August 30 - Don Getty, Canadian politician
September 1 - Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
September 1 - Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)
September 2 - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor
September 3 - Tompall Glaser, American singer
September 3 - Basil Butcher, West Indian cricketer
September 5 - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilian catholic archbishop
September 8 - Asha Bhonsle, Indian singer
September 8 - Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician; father of Heidi Fleiss
September 8 - Michael Frayn, British playwright
September 8 - Eric Salzman, American composer
September 10 - Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
September 10 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
September 11 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
September 12 - Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
September 13 - Eileen Fulton, American actress
September 14 - Harve Presnell, American actor
September 15 - Henry Darrow, American actor
September 15 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
September 17 - Chuck Grassley, American politician
September 17 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
September 17 - Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
September 18 - Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
September 18 - Robert Blake, American actor
September 18 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer
September 18 - Robert Foster Bennett, American senator (Utah)
September 19 - David McCallum, Scottish actor
September 20 - Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)
September 21 - Dick Simon, American racing driver
September 25 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
September 25 - Erik Darling, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
September 25 - Brian Murphy, British actor
September 26 - Donna Douglas, American actress
September 27 - Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
September 27 - Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996)
September 27 - Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)
September 28 - Miguel Berrocal, Sculptor (d. 2006)
September 30 - Cissy Houston, American gospel/r&b singer
September 30 - Barbara Knox, English actress
October 2 - Phill Niblock, American composer
October 3 - Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
October 5 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress
October 9 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist
October 10 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
October 12 - Guido Molinari, Canadian painter (d. 2004)
October 13 - Raynald Frechette, Quebec politician and judge (d. 2007)
October 13 - Queen Narriman, second and last wife of King Farouk and mother of their only child King Fuad (d. 2005)
October 13 - Baron Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
October 17 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
October 18 - Forrest Gregg, American football player
October 22 - Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
October 24 - Ronald and Reginald Kray, British gangsters (Ronald d. 1995; Reginald d. 2000)
October 24 - Norman Rush, American writer
October 25 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (d. 2005)
October 27 - Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
October 28 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
October 31 - Phil Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player
November 3 - Ken Berry, American actor
November 3 - John Barry, English composer
November 3 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
November 3 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
November 3 - Michael Dukakis, American politician
November 3 - Amartya Sen, Indian economist
November 4 - Tito Francona, American baseball player
November 8 - Peter Arundell, British racing driver
November 10 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
November 13 - Adrienne Corri, Scottish actress
November 14 - Fred Haise, American astronaut
November 16 - Garnet Mimms, American singer
November 17 - Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
November 19 - Larry King, American TV personality
November 19 - Jerry Sheindlin, American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin
November 21 - Joseph Campanella, American actor
November 23 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and revolutionary
November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
November 25 - Kathryn Grant, American actress
November 26 - Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
November 27 - Jacques Godbout, French Canadian novelist
November 28 - Joe Knollenberg, American politician
November 29 - John Mayall, British blues musician
November 29 - James Rosenquist, American artist
November 30 - Norman Deeley, English footballer (d. 2007)
December 1 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996)
December 1 - Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006)
December 2 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
December 2 - K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
December 3 - Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist
December 4 - Horst Buchholz, German-born actor (d. 2003)
December 6 - Henryk Górecki, Polish composer
December 8 - Flip Wilson, American comedian (d. 1998)
December 9 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
December 9 - Monique Miller, French Canadian actress
December 9 - Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)
December 10 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
December 11 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
December 15 - Bapu, Indian cartoonist
December 15 - Tim Conway, American actor and comedian
December 15 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2001)
December 18 - Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected serial killer (d. 1992)
December 19 - Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete
December 19 - Cicely Tyson, American actress
December 20 - Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator
December 20 - Rik van Looy, Belgian cyclist
December 23 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
December 26 - Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality
December 26 - Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer
December 28 - John Y. Brown, Jr.
December 31 - Edward Bunker, American author and actor (d. 2005)

Deaths

January 3 - Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
January 3 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
January 5 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
January 6 - Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist (b. 1848)
January 17 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
January 21 - George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
January 26 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
January 29 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
January 31 - John Galsworthy, English writer
February 4 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
February 12 - Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
February 18 - James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)
February 26 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)
March 1 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
March 6 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
March 14 - Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925
March 26 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
April 6 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
April 22 - Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
April 29 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
May 26 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
May 26 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
June 2 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
June 3 - William Muldoon, wrestler (b. 1852)
June 22 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
June 29 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
July 3 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
July 8 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
July 15 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
July 15 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
August 8 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
August 28 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
September 8 - King Faysal I of Iraq, (b. 1883)
September 16 - George Gore, baseball player (b. 1857)
September 17 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
September 20 - Annie Besant, women's rights activist (b. 1847)
September 24 - Mike Donlin, American baseball player (b. 1878)
September 24 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
September 25 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
October 5 - Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
October 5 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
October 29 - Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
October 29 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
November 3 - Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
November 5 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper
November 30 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
December 4 - Stefan George, German poet (b. 1868)
December 17 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
December 19 - George Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1857)
December 21 - Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist (b. 1879)
December 25 - Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
December 26 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (b. 1875)

Events

January 3 - 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 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
January 28 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
January 30 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
February 2 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament.
February 6 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
February 10 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
February 10 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
February 10 - Adolf Hitler takes a speech in Sportpalast, Berlin
February 15 - In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
February 17 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
February 20 - The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would end Prohibition in the United States.
February 25 - The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the US Navys first custom-built aircraft carrier.
February 27 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
February 28 - Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
March 4 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
March 4 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
March 4 - The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure
March 5 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
March 5 - In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
March 9 - Great Depression: The United States Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to the Congress.
March 10 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
March 12 - Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."
March 13 - Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandated a "bank holiday".
March 15 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
March 20 - Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
March 21 - Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.
March 22 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
March 31 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
April 1 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will gradually, yet ultimately lead to the Holocaust.
April 7 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
April 10 - New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.
April 26 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
April 27 - Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership's first shop outside London.
May 2 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
May 3 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
May 8 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
May 10 - Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
May 17 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
May 18 - New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
May 27 - New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
May 27 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
May 27 - The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
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 opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
June 17 - Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
July 1 - The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
July 6 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League, 4-2.
July 14 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
July 17 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
July 20 - Vice-Chancellor of Germany Franz von Papen and Vatican Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations.
July 20 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
July 20 - Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
July 22 - Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
July 28 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
August 7 - The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
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 (970 km²).
August 25 - The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
September 3 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union
September 12 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
October 10 - 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 - The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
October 14 - Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
October 17 - Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the U.S..
October 19 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
November 7 - Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
November 8 - Great Depression: New Deal
November 12 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
November 17 - United States recognizes Soviet Union.
December 5 - Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).
December 6 - U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
December 26 - The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.
December 26 - FM radio is patented.

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