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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1930 1931 1932 – 1933 – 1934 1935 1936

1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Movies released
Hit songs
Images for kids
See also

Events

Wally Hammond

Wally Hammond in 1933

January 28 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali chose the name Pakistan in his pamphlet for a Muslim state in northwest India
January 30 – Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg
February 17 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time in the United States
March 3
- Earthquake in Japan kills 3.000 people
- Ching Yun University was established
March 10 – Earthquake in Long Beach, California
March 20 – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed
April 2 – In a cricket test match against New Zealand, England batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs.
May 8 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest for India
July 6 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago
July 8 – The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town
August 2 – Opening of the Stalin White Sea–Baltic Sea Canal, connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the Baltic
September 26 – Hurricane in Tampico, Mexico kills 1.000 people
October 7 – Air France is formed
December 5 – Prohibition ends in the United States
The Toyota company starts in Japan

Births

Crown Prince Akihito 1938-10

Crown Prince Akihito in 1938

January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
February 18 – Yoko Ono, singer, artist, wife of John Lennon
March 10 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet (d. 2004)
April 7 – Wayne Rogers, actor
May 3
- James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Feel Good) (d. 2006)
- Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 6 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
July 2 – Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player
July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
August 18 – Roman Polanski, movie director
August 25 – Tom Skerritt, actor
September 29 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
October 10 – Jay Sebring, hairstylist
November 3 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 12 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq
December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
December 23 – Akihito, Emperor of Japan

Deaths

Henri Duparc

Henri Duparc

January 5 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
January 31 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
February 12 – Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
March 1 – Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
April 17 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876)
May 2 – Leonard Huxley, English writer (b. 1860)
July 3 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, 18th President of Argentina (b. 1852)
August 15 – Christie Fuller, Australia singer
September 8 – Faisal I of Iraq, king of Iraq
October 16 – Ismael Montes, 26th President of Bolivia (b. 1861)
November 3 – Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853)
December 16 – Robert W. Chambers, American writer (b. 1865)

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics won by Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, English physicist
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist
Nobel Prize in Literature won by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer
Nobel Peace Prize won by Sir Norman Angell, British lecturer, writer, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party

Movies released

Katharine hepburn little women

Katharine Hepburn in Little Women

42nd Street
Alice in Wonderland
Duck Soup
Gold Diggers of 1933
King Kong
Little Women, starring Kathrine Hepburn
The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton
The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey
Queen Christina, starring Greta Garbo
Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill
Secrets, starring Mary Pickford
She Done Him Wrong, starring Cary Grant amd Mae West
The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack
Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres

Hit songs

"Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" by Eddy Duchin
"Just An Echo In the Valley" by Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
"Lazy Bones" by Ted Lewis Band; also version by Don Redman's band
"Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" by Ben Bernie
"Night and Day" by Eddy Duchin
"Shadow Waltz" by Bing Crosby
"Stormy Weather" by Ethel Waters
"You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" by Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1933 para niños

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