WORLD HISTORY · 1933 日本語
Events of 1933Showa 8 (Japan) · Year of the Rooster
What happened in 1933?
In 1933, the League of Nations reviewed the Lytton Report and adopted a recommendation against Japan, and Japan announced its withdrawal from the League. The Showa Sanriku earthquake also struck, and in Germany Hitler was appointed chancellor.
- Hitler appointed chancellorEurope
- League of Nations adopts report against JapanAsia
- Reichstag fire in GermanyAsia
- Showa Sanriku earthquake strikesAsia
- Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated as presidentNorth America
- Takigawa Incident over academic freedomAsia
- Tanggu Truce ends Manchurian IncidentAsia
- Prohibition repealed in United StatesNorth America
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1933 at a glance
| Japanese era | Showa 8 |
|---|---|
| Chinese zodiac | Year of the Rooster |
| Age of people born in 1933 | Turn 93 in 2026 |
| Previous / next year | 1932 (Showa 7) ／ 1934 (Showa 9) |
| Events | 91 |
| AP World History | Unit 7 (Global Conflict) |
| AP U.S. History | Period 7 |
Famous people born in 1933
Our birthday pages list 551 people born in 1933. Here are some of them.
- Chita RiveraBorn January 23 · turns 93 this year · American Broadway dancer, singer, and actress famed for roles in West Side Stor…
- Nina SimoneBorn February 21 · turns 93 this year · American singer, pianist, and songwriter whose blend of jazz, blues, folk, and…
- Quincy JonesBorn March 14 · turns 93 this year · American record producer, composer, and arranger who produced Michael Jackson's…
- Ruth Bader GinsburgBorn March 15 · turns 93 this year · U.S. Supreme Court justice and pioneering women's rights lawyer who joined the…
- Carol BurnettBorn April 26 · turns 93 this year · American comedian and actress best known as the star of the classic TV variety…
- James BrownBorn May 3 · turns 93 this year · American singer, songwriter, and bandleader known as the "Godfather of Soul" an…
- Johnny UnitasBorn May 7 · turns 93 this year · Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts and set a 47-game touchdow…
- Joan CollinsBorn May 23 · turns 93 this year · English actress and author best known for playing the scheming Alexis Carringto…
- Gene WilderBorn June 11 · turns 93 this year · American comic actor and writer remembered for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Fact…
- Oliver SacksBorn July 9 · turns 93 this year · British-born neurologist and author whose case-study books, including Awakening…
- Karl LagerfeldBorn September 10 · turns 93 this year · German fashion designer who led Chanel for more than three decades and revived…
- Tetsuko KuroyanagiBorn August 9 · turns 93 this year
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- Roman PolanskiBorn August 18 · turns 93 this year
- James HormelBorn January 1 · turns 93 this year
- Joe OrtonBorn January 1 · turns 93 this year
- Richard RileyBorn January 2 · turns 93 this year
- Anne StevensonBorn January 3 · turns 93 this year
- Geoffrey BindmanBorn January 3 · turns 93 this year
- Rolf SteinerBorn January 3 · turns 93 this year
- John CliveBorn January 6 · turns 93 this year
- Oleg Grigoryevich MakarovBorn January 6 · turns 93 this year
- Elliott KastnerBorn January 7 · turns 93 this year
- Charles OsgoodBorn January 8 · turns 93 this year
- Jean-Marie StraubBorn January 8 · turns 93 this year
- Roy DwightBorn January 9 · turns 93 this year
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- Goldie HillBorn January 11 · turns 93 this year
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- Tom GolaBorn January 13 · turns 93 this year
- Stan BrakhageBorn January 14 · turns 93 this year
- Ernest J. GainesBorn January 15 · turns 93 this year
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Events of 1933 (timeline · 91)
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Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
Casas Viejas incident: 22 peasants killed by the Security and Assault Corps in Casas Viejas, Spain.
The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Nazi foreign policy.
Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
LAPD Red Squad raid on John Reed Club art show in the U.S. results in the destruction of a dozen political artworks.
In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6.
Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy.
Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility.
The film King Kong premieres in Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in New York City.
The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
The United States Senate confirms Frances Perkins as United States Secretary of Labor and she is sworn in the same day, making her the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area, leaving around 108 people dead.
Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appoints Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
Japanese invasion of Manchuria: Japan leaves the League of Nations after it approves the Lytton Report that ruled in favour of China.
The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.
Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
The Australian state of Western Australia votes to secede from the federation in a non-binding referendum, although efforts to implement the result prove unsuccessful.
Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
The Deutsche Studentenschaft attack Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the predecessor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
All military aviation organizations within or under the control of the RLM of Germany are officially merged in a covert manner to form its Wehrmacht military's air arm, the Luftwaffe.
Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The Walt Disney Company cartoon Three Little Pigs premieres at Radio City Music Hall, featuring the hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.
Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring requiring the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.
Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.
Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.
The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the 'eighth great power'.
The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
Nazi Germany and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the Haavara Agreement. The agreement was a major factor in breaking the anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 and facilitated Jewish emigration from Germany and into British Mandate of Palestine.
The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage.
Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.
Nazi Germany uses a referendum to ratify its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition in the United States.
In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision affirming free expression.
The first NFL Championship Game is played at Wrigley Field in Chicago between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears. The Bears win 23–21.
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FAQ
What year was 1933 in the Japanese calendar?
1933 was Showa 8 in the Japanese era system.
What Chinese zodiac animal is 1933?
1933 is the Year of the Rooster.
How old is someone born in 1933?
They turn 93 on their birthday in 2026.
What happened in 1933?
In 1933, the League of Nations reviewed the Lytton Report and adopted a recommendation against Japan, and Japan announced its withdrawal from the League. The Showa Sanriku earthquake also struck, and in Germany Hitler was appointed chancellor.
Dates and events are based on Wikipedia and other references. Summaries and regions are written by the site editors.