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
Famous Deaths
- Jan. 05: Calvin Coolidge - 30th President of the USA
Top Grossing Films
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
Championship Teams
Top Athletes
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1933 Timline
January 5 1933
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.
February 1933
- February 17: Newsweek is first published in 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.
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December 5: The 18th Amendment was repealed with ratification of the 21st Amendment, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt this effectively ended the prohibition of alcohol
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.