1933
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s 1960s |
| Years: | 1930 1931 1932 – 1933 – 1934 1935 1936 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1933 MCMXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2686 |
| Armenian calendar | 1382 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6683 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 89–90 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1854–1855 |
| Bengali calendar | 1340 |
| Berber calendar | 2883 |
| British Regnal year | 23 Geo. 5 – 24 Geo. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2477 |
| Burmese calendar | 1295 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7441–7442 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4629 or 4569 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4630 or 4570 |
| Coptic calendar | 1649–1650 |
| Discordian calendar | 3099 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1925–1926 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5693–5694 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1989–1990 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1854–1855 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5033–5034 |
| Holocene calendar | 11933 |
| Igbo calendar | 933–934 |
| Iranian calendar | 1311–1312 |
| Islamic calendar | 1351–1352 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 8 (昭和８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1863–1864 |
| Juche calendar | 22 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4266 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 22 民國22年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 465 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2475–2476 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 2059 or 1678 or 906 — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 2060 or 1679 or 907 |
1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar, the 933rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1930s decade
Events[change]
- January 28 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali chooses the name Pakistan in his pamphlet for a Muslim country in northwest India
- January 30 – Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg
- February 17 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time in the United States
- March 3
- Earthquake in Japan kills 3.000 people
- Ching Yun University was established
- March 4 – Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as US President
- March 10 – Earthquake in Long Beach, California
- March 20 – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed
- April 2 – In a cricket test match against New Zealand, England batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs.[1]
- May 8 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest for India
- July 6 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago
- July 8 – The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town
- August 2 – Opening of the Stalin White Sea–Baltic Sea Canal, connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the Baltic
- September 26 – Hurricane in Tampico, Mexico kills 1.000 people
- October 7 – Air France is formed
- December 5 – Prohibition ends in the United States
- The Toyota company starts in Japan
Births[change]
January[change]
- January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
February[change]
- February 13 – Paul Biya President of Cameroon
- February 13 – Kim Novak, American actress
- February 18 – Yoko Ono, Japanese singer, artist, wife of John Lennon
- February 18 – Bobby Robson, English association football player and manager (d. 2009)
March[change]
- March 10 – Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet (d. 2004)
- March 13 – Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (d. 1991)
- March 19 – Teresa Berganza, Spanish mezzo-soprano (d. 2022)
- March 22 – Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018)
April[change]
- April 9 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021)
- April 18 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
May[change]
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- May 3 – James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Feel Good) (d. 2006)
- May 3 – Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
June[change]
- June 6 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
- June 15 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, President of Iran (d. 1981)
July[change]
- July 2 – Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- July 16 – John Baddeley, British diplomat
- July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
August[change]
- August 18 – Roman Polanski, Polish movie director
September[change]
October[change]
- October 21 – Paco Gento, Spanish footballer (d. 2022)
November[change]
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- November 3 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Hong Kong-British-American physicist (d. 2018)
- November 12 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq (d. 2017)
December[change]
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- December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. Filipino politician (d. 2019)
- December 23 – Akihito, Emperor of Japan
Deaths[change]
- January 5 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
- January 31 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
- February 12 – Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
- March 1 – Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
- April 17 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876)
- May 2 – Leonard Huxley, English writer (b. 1860)
- July 3 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, 18th President of Argentina (b. 1852)
- August 15 – Christie Fuller, Australia singer
- September 8 – Faisal I of Iraq, king of Iraq
- October 2 - Elizabeth Thompson, British painter
- October 16 – Ismael Montes, 26th President of Bolivia (b. 1861)
- November 3 – Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853)
- December 16 – Robert W. Chambers, American writer (b. 1865)
Nobel Prizes[change]
- Nobel Prize in Physics won by Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, English physicist
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist
- Nobel Prize in Literature won by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer
- Nobel Peace Prize won by Sir Norman Angell, British lecturer, writer, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party
Movies released[change]
- 42nd Street
- Alice in Wonderland
- Duck Soup
- Gold Diggers of 1933
- King Kong
- Little Women, starring Kathrine Hepburn
- The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton
- The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey
- Queen Christina, starring Greta Garbo
- Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill
- Secrets, starring Mary Pickford
- She Done Him Wrong, starring Cary Grant amd Mae West
- The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack
- Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres
Hit songs[change]
- "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" by Eddy Duchin
- "Just An Echo In the Valley" by Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
- "Lazy Bones" by Ted Lewis Band; also version by Don Redman's band
- "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" by Ben Bernie
- "Night and Day" by Eddy Duchin
- "Shadow Waltz" by Bing Crosby
- "Stormy Weather" by Ethel Waters
- "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" by Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians
References[change]
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 510–512. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.