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