1933 Calendar

January 26, 1933 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.

January 30, 1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

March 4, 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.

March 5, 1933 – Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.

March 24, 1933 – The Enabling Act of 1933 is passed by the German Reichstag, allowing Adolf Hitler to gain plenary power.

April 5, 1933 – 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.

June 17, 1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.

July 17, 1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.

December 15, 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.

January 17, 1933 – Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998)

January 31, 1933 – Bernardo Provenzano, Sicilian organized crime figure

March 21, 1933 – Michael Heseltine, English politician

March 30, 1933 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)

April 24, 1933 – Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor

August 3, 1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer

August 6, 1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)

August 25, 1933 – Tom Skerritt, American actor

September 15, 1933 – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor

September 30, 1933 – Ben Cooper, American actor