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Famous Births
- Feb. 18: Yoko Ono - John Lennon's widow
- Mar. 15: Ruth Ginsburg - Supreme Court Justice
- Apr. 26: Carol Burnett - Desperate Housewives
- Apr. 30: Willie Nelson - Country Singer
- May 07: Johnny Unitas - Indianapolis Colts
- Jun.11: Gene Wilder - Young Frankenstein
- Jun. 22: Dianne Feinstein - U.S. Senator
6th Academy Awards
- Presented on: March 16, 1934
- Best Picture: Cavalcade
- Best Actor: C. Laughton in ...Life of Henry VIII
- Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory
- Best Director: Frank Lloyd for Cavalcade Rope of Silicon: Oscar Award Winners list
Top Athletes
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February 27 1933
February 27: The Reichstag in Berlin, Germany burnt down. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party blamed Communists and used it as a pretext to suspend civil liberties.
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February 1933
- February 17: Newsweek is first published in the United States
March 4 1933
March 4: During the height of the Great Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States.
March 12 1933
March 12: Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds his first fireside chat by radio, to encourage support for The New Deal.
March 1933
- March 2: King Kong debuts at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
March 5: The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
- March 5: Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
- March 22: During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
- March 23: The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.
April 1933
- April 1: Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
- April 19: The United States went off the gold standard.
May 1933
- May 2: The first modern sighting of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster.
- May 10: After taking power in Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis burn all books that contain "un-German" ideas.
October 1933
- October 14: Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- October 17: Albert Einstein arrived to the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
December 5 1933
December 5: The 18th Amendment was repealed with ratification of the 21st Amendment, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt this effectively ended the prohibition of alcohol
1933 Questions
Best thing since ____? Can you think of something better than sliced bread to replace the saying? 9 AnswersBest thing since...the creation of the Internet. I like jeffhoard's idea...but the Internet is the real source of everything. Imagine life without Mahalo, Googl... read more-
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1933, ta genifi? to muito viciada nao consigo parar :p
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Ik ben in het Berlijn van 1933 om te voorkomen dat de duif uitsterft. Ene Hitler won daardoor de verkiezingen; meld even hoe dat afloopt.
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Just got an aerial postcard of Lake Geneva WI before the Riviera was built. So cool to see it look so different. A big help for my 1933 WIP.
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Jimmie Lunceford Orch ~ White Heat [1933] ♫ http://blip.fm/~gmtbd
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"I'm not so much concerned about the return on my money as the return of my money." - Will Rogers, 1933
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