Editing 1933 (section)

== Events ==

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1933}}
[[File:Golden Gate Bridge from underneath.jpg|thumb|140px|right| [[January 5]]: Construction of the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] begins.]]
[[File:LocationPhilippines.png|thumb|140px|right|[[January 17]]: Vote on [[Philippines]] independence.]]
* [[January 11]] – Australian aviator Sir [[Charles Kingsford Smith]] makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* [[January 17]] – The [[United States Congress]] votes in favour of [[Philippines]] independence, against the wishes of U.S. President [[Herbert Hoover]].<ref>{{cite book|author=M. Epstein|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1935|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EkvODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA640|date=December 28, 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27064-0|pages=640}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] – "[[Pakistan Declaration]]": [[Choudhry Rahmat Ali]] publishes (in [[Cambridge]], UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls "[[Pakistan|Pakstan]]"; this influences the [[Pakistan Movement]].<ref name="RahmatʻAli1978">{{cite book|author=Choudhary RahmatʻAli|title=Pakistan: The Fatherland of the Pak Nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPkJAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Book Traders|page=24}}</ref>
* [[January 30]]
** [[Nazi Party]] leader [[Adolf Hitler]] is appointed [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] by President of Germany [[Paul von Hindenburg]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Shirer | first = William L. | author-link = William L. Shirer | title = The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | publisher = Simon & Schuster | location = New York | year = 1960 | lccn = 60-6729 | title-link = The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich| page=184}}</ref>
** [[Édouard Daladier]] forms a government in France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/histoire/personnages/daladier-edouard-1884-1970-26-08-2013-1717267_1617.php|title=Édouard Daladier, un résistant entre paix et guerre|work=Le Point|date=2013-10-30|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref> in succession to [[Joseph Paul-Boncour]]. He is succeeded on October 26 by [[Albert Sarraut]] and on November 26 by [[Camille Chautemps]].

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1933}}
[[File:Reichstagsbrand.jpg|thumb|240px|right|[[February 27]]: [[Reichstag fire]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Adolf Hitler]] gives his "Proclamation to the German People" in Berlin.
* [[February 3]] – Adolf Hitler gives a secret speech to his military leaders, outlining his plans to rearm Germany in defiance of the [[Treaty of Versailles]] and to adopt a policy of ''[[Lebensraum]]'' in eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Hoffmann|author-link=Peter Hoffmann (historian)|title=German resistance to Hitler|url=https://archive.org/details/germanresistance00pete|url-access=registration|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Mass|year=1988|pages=[https://archive.org/details/germanresistance00pete/page/15 15–16]}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – A [[mutiny]] starts on the [[Royal Netherlands Navy]] [[coastal defence ship]] [[HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (1909)|''De Zeven Provinciën'']] in the [[Dutch East Indies]]. After 6 days, it is bombed by a Dutch aircraft, killing 23 men, and the remaining mutineers surrender. 
* [[February 6]]–[[February 7|7]] – Officers on the [[USS Ramapo (AO-12)|USS ''Ramapo'']] record a 34-meter high sea wave in the Pacific Ocean.
* [[February 9]] – [[The King and Country debate]]: The [[Oxford Union]] student debating society in England passes a resolution stating, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and country."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ceadel|first=Martin|title=The King and Country Debate, 1933: Student Politics, Pacifism and the Dictators|journal=[[The Historical Journal]]|volume=22|issue=2|year=1979|pages=397–422|doi=10.1017/s0018246x00016885|s2cid=153490642 }}</ref>
* [[February 10]] – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first [[singing telegram]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 10, 1983|title=The Singing Telegram at 50: Singing Telegrams are Catching On|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/10/business/the-singing-telegram-at-50.html|access-date=June 14, 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] – In [[Miami]], [[Giuseppe Zangara]] attempts to assassinate President-elect [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], but instead fatally wounds the [[Mayor of Chicago]], [[Anton Cermak]]. Zangara is executed on March 20 by the [[electric chair]].
* [[February 17]] – [[Repeal of Prohibition in the United States]]: The [[Blaine Act]] passes the [[United States Senate]], submitting the proposed [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution]] to the states for ratification. The amendment is ratified on December 5, ending [[prohibition in the United States]].
*[[February 23]] – The [[Imperial Japanese Army]] [[Battle of Rehe|invades Rehe province]] in northern China.
* [[February 25]] – Arminda de Jesus is burned for witchcraft in [[Marco de Canaveses|Soalhães, Portugal]]. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Hutchinson |first=Joshua |date=2025-03-08 |title=International Women's Day Stories: The 1933 Burning of Arminda de Jesus for Witchcraft in Soalhaes, Portugal |url=https://witchhuntshow.com/2025/03/07/international-womens-day-stories-the-1933-burning-of-arminda-de-jesus-for-witchcraft-in-soalhaes-portugal/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Witch Hunt: The Podcast of Witch Trials and Harmful Practices Related to Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Reichstag fire]]: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the [[Reichstag building]], is set on fire under controversial circumstances.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Holborn |first1=Hajo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYn-quXf_9cC |title=Republic to Reich: The Making of the Nazi Revolution; Ten Essays |date=1972 |publisher=Pantheon Books |isbn=978-0-394-47122-8 |page=182 |language=en}}</ref> The following day, the [[Reichstag Fire Decree]] is passed in response to the Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties.
* [[February 28]] – [[English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33]]: The [[England cricket team]] wins [[The Ashes]] using the controversial [[bodyline]] tactic.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/510 510]–512}}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1933}}
* [[March 2]] – [[King Kong]]: The [[King Kong (1933 film)|original ''King Kong'' film]], starring [[Fay Wray]] and directed by [[Merian C. Cooper]], debuts in [[New York City]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lasky |first=Betty |title=RKO, the biggest little major of them all |date=1984 |publisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn=978-0-13-781451-0 |location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J}}</ref>
* [[March 3]] – [[1933 Sanriku earthquake]]: A powerful earthquake and [[tsunami]] hit [[Honshū]], Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people.
* [[March 4]]
** The [[Parliament of Austria]] is suspended because of a quibble over procedure; [[Chancellor of Austria|Chancellor]] [[Engelbert Dollfuss]] initiates authoritarian rule by decree, an origin of [[Austrofascism]].
** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] is [[First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt|sworn in]] as the [[Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1941)|32nd president]] of the [[United States]].
* [[March 5]]
** The [[Great Depression]]: President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] declares a "[[Emergency Banking Act|Bank holiday]]", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on [[March 13]]).
** [[March 1933 German federal election]]: The [[Nazi Party]] gains 43.9% of the votes.
* [[March 7]] – The real-estate trading board game ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]'' is developed in the United States.
* [[March 10]] – The 6.4 {{M|w}} [[1933 Long Beach earthquake|Long Beach earthquake]] shakes [[Southern California]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), killing 115 people.
* [[March 12]] – [[Great Depression]]: [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his "[[Fireside chats]]".
* [[March 14]] – Indonesian Association football club [[Persib Bandung]] is founded as Bandoeng Inlandsche Voetbal Bond.
* [[March 15]]
** The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] rises from 53.84 to 62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index.
** Austrian Chancellor [[Engelbert Dollfuss]] keeps members of the [[National Council of Austria|National Council]] from convening, starting the [[Austrofascism|Austrofascist]] dictatorship.
* [[March 20]]
** [[Dachau concentration camp|Dachau]], the first [[Nazi concentration camp]], is completed in Germany (it opens [[March 22]] to hold political prisoners).
** First of a series of meetings in the United States called by Jewish organizations calling for an international [[1933 anti-Nazi boycott|anti-Nazi boycott]] in response to the persecution of German Jews.
* [[March 22]] – President Franklin Roosevelt signs the [[Cullen–Harrison Act]], an amendment to the Volstead Act, allowing the manufacture and sale from April 7 of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines,<ref>"Roosevelt Authorizes Beer Sale By Signing Bill For 3.2 Brew". ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' March 23, 1933, p.1.</ref> 8 months before the full [[repeal of Prohibition in the United States]] in December.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213|year=2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|page=213}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – ''[[Gleichschaltung]]'': The [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] passes the [[Enabling Act of 1933|Enabling Act]], making [[Adolf Hitler]] effectively the [[dictator]] of Germany.<ref name=1933Mc>{{cite journal|first=Frank|last=McDonough|title=1933: death of a democracy|journal=[[History Today]]|volume=70|issue=2|date=February 2020|pages=70–83}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – Japan announces it will leave the [[League of Nations]] (due to a cancellation period of exactly two years, the egression becomes effective March 27, 1935).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zaoerv.de/04_1934/4_1934_1_b_148_151_1.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.zaoerv.de/04_1934/4_1934_1_b_148_151_1.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=pdf}}</ref> 
* [[March 29]] – Welsh journalist [[Gareth Jones (journalist)|Gareth Jones]] makes the first report in the West of the [[Holodomor]] famine genocide in Ukraine.
* [[March 31]]
** March revolution in [[Uruguay]]: President [[Gabriel Terra]] carries out a coup with the support of the civilian population, police officers and firefighters and rules as a dictator until 1938.
** The [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] is established in the United States as an unemployment relief program.

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1933}}
* [[April 1]] – The recently elected [[Nazism|Nazis]] (under [[Julius Streicher]]) organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.<ref name="Häsler1969">{{cite book|author=Alfred A. Häsler|title=The Lifeboat is Full: Switzerland and the Refugees, 1933-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d4BCAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls|page=55}}</ref>
* [[April 2]] – As a member of the [[English cricket team in New Zealand in 1932–33|English cricket team touring New Zealand, 1933]], batsman [[Wally Hammond]] scores a record 336 runs in a test match at [[Eden Park]], [[Auckland]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[April 3]]
** An anti-monarchist rebellion occurs in Siam ([[Thailand]]).
** The first flight over [[Mount Everest]] is made by the British [[Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition]], led by the [[Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton|Marquis of Clydesdale]], and funded by [[Lucy, Lady Houston]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Watson Davis|title=The Advance of Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EItCAQAAIAAJ|year=1934|publisher=Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated|oclc=25639966|page=124}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] – American airship ''[[USS Akron (ZRS-4)|Akron]]'' crashes off the coast of [[New Jersey]], killing 73 of its 76 crewmen. It is the worst aviation accident in history up to this date (and until [[1950]]).
* [[April 5]]
** The [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]] decides that [[Greenland]] belongs to Denmark, and condemns [[Erik the Red's Land|Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland]]. Norway submits to the decision.
** United States President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] declares a national emergency and issues [[Executive Order 6102]], making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own substantial amounts of monetary gold or [[bullion]].
* [[April 7]] – In Germany, the [[Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service]] is passed, the first law of the new regime directed against Jews (as well as political opponents).<ref>{{cite book|first=Diemut|last=Majer|title="Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_BCNrHG9K8C&pg=RA4-PA85|year=2003|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-6493-3|pages=4}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] – Aviator [[Bill Lancaster (aviator)|Bill Lancaster]] takes off from Lympne in England, in an attempt to make a speed record to the [[Cape of Good Hope]], but vanishes (his body is not found in the [[Sahara Desert]] until [[1962]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Flight International|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QDWifwN0igC|year=1975|publisher=Illiffe Transport Publications|page=509}}</ref>
* [[April 13]] – The [[Children and Young Persons Act 1933|Children and Young Persons Act]] is passed in the [[United Kingdom]]. This raises the [[age of criminal responsibility]] from 7 to 8, raises the minimum age for [[Capital punishment in the United Kingdom|capital punishment]] to 18, places restrictions on the identification in the press of persons under 18 appearing in court, sets a minimum full-time working age of 14 and makes it illegal to sell tobacco products to under-16s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Halsbury's Statutes of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4NQAQAAIAAJ|year=1970|page=438}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] – [[Nazi Germany]] outlaws the [[kosher]] ritual ''[[shechita]]''.
* [[April 24]] – In Nazi Germany:
** [[Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany|Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses]] begins with the seizure of the Bible Students' office in [[Magdeburg]].
** Jewish physicians are excluded from official insurance schemes, forcing many to give up their practices.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Margarete|last1=Limberg|first2=Hubert|last2=Rübsaat|title=Germans No More: Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933–1938|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2006|pages=17–8}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] – The [[Gestapo]] [[secret police]] is established in Nazi Germany by [[Hermann Göring]].
* [[April 27]] – The [[Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten|Stahlhelm]] veterans' organization joins the [[Nazism|Nazi]] party in Germany.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1933}}
* [[May 2]] – ''[[Gleichschaltung]]'': [[Adolf Hitler]] prohibits [[trade union]]s.
* [[May 3]]
** In the [[Irish Free State]], [[Dáil Éireann]] abolishes the [[oath of allegiance]] to the [[British Crown]].
** [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] becomes the first woman to be named director of the [[United States Mint]].
* [[May 5]] – The detection by [[Karl Jansky]] of radio waves from the center of the [[Milky Way]] Galaxy is reported in ''The New York Times''. The discovery leads to the birth of [[radio astronomy]].
* [[May 8]] – [[Mohandas Gandhi]] begins a 3-week [[hunger strike]] because of the mistreatment of the lower castes in [[India]].
* [[May 10]] – [[Chaco War]]: [[Paraguay]] formally declares war on [[Bolivia]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-05 |title=Chaco War {{!}} Bolivia, Paraguay & Causes [1932–1935] {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Chaco-War |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] – [[Vidkun Quisling]] and [[Johan Bernhard Hjort]] form the [[Nasjonal Samling]] (the National Gathering Party) of Norway.
* [[May 18]] – [[New Deal]]: President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs an act creating the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]].
* [[May 26]] – The [[Nazism|Nazi]] Party in Germany introduces a law to legalize [[eugenics|eugenic]] [[Human sterilization|sterilization]].
* [[May 27]]
** [[New Deal]] in the United States: The [[Federal Securities Act]] is signed into law, requiring the registration of securities with the [[Federal Trade Commission]].
** The ''[[Century of Progress]]'' [[World's Fair]] opens in Chicago.

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1933}}
* June – The [[Holodomor]] famine-genocide in [[Ukraine]] reaches its peak, with 30,000 deaths from human-made starvation each day.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://holodomorct.org/holodomor-facts-and-history/|title=Holodomor Facts and History: chronology of events surrounding the famine}}</ref> The average life expectancy for a Ukrainian male born this year is 7.3 years.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Vallin|first1=Jacques |last2=Meslé|first2=France|last3=Adamets |first3=Serguei|last4=Pyrozhkov|first4=Serhii|title=A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses during the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s|url=http://ncua.inform-decisions.com/eng/files/VallinNewEstimate.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ncua.inform-decisions.com/eng/files/VallinNewEstimate.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=[[Population Studies]]|volume=56|issue=3|year=2002 |pages=249–264|doi=10.1080/00324720215934|pmid=12553326|s2cid=21128795}}</ref> 
* [[June 5]] – The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] abrogates the United States use of the [[gold standard]], by enacting a joint resolution<ref>48 Stat. 112.</ref> nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
* [[June 6]] – The first [[drive-in theater|drive-in movie theater]] is opened in [[Pennsauken Township, New Jersey|Pennsauken Township]], near [[Camden, New Jersey]], by [[Richard Hollingshead]], according to his patent granted May 16.<ref>{{US patent|1909537}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/82_years_ago_first_drive-in_theatre_opened_in_nj.html|title=82 years ago today, first U.S. drive-in theater opened in N.J.|date=June 2015|website=NJ.com|access-date=2017-10-16}}</ref>
* [[June 12]] – The [[London Economic Conference]] is held.
* [[June 17]] – [[Kansas City massacre]]: At the Union Station in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], gangsters kill four law enforcement officers and detained fugitive bank robber [[Frank Nash]].
* [[June 22]] – [[Nazi Germany]] outlaws the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social-Democratic Party]] (SPD).<ref>{{cite book |last=Evans|first=Richard J. |title=The Coming of the Third Reich |publisher=Penguin Press |location=New York |year=2003 |page=359 |isbn=978-0-143-03469-8}}</ref>
* [[June 25]] – Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the [[persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany]].
* [[June 26]] – In the United States:
** The American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine, at the [[Arlington Park]] race track near Chicago.
** Founding of [[Twentieth Century Pictures]] as a motion picture production company by [[Joseph Schenck]] and [[Darryl F. Zanuck]] in Hollywood.

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1933}}
* [[July 1]]
** The [[London Passenger Transport Board]] begins operation.
** [[Business Plot]]: [[Smedley Butler]] becomes involved in a coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against the President of the United States [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] which fails (according to his testimony in 1934).
* [[July 4]] – [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] is sentenced to prison in 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 (rugby union)|test match]] is played between the [[Australia national rugby union team|Wallabies of Australia]] and the [[South Africa national rugby union team|Springboks of South Africa]], at Newlands in [[Cape Town]].
* [[July 14]] – In [[Nazi Germany]]:
** Formation of new political parties is forbidden.<ref name=1933Mc/>
** The [[Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring]] is enacted,<ref>Coming into force January 1934. {{cite book|title=[[IBM and the Holocaust]]|first=Edwin|last=Black|author-link=Edwin Black |year=2001 |publisher=Crown / Random House|page=93}}</ref> allowing [[compulsory sterilization]] of citizens suffering from a list of alleged [[genetic disorders]].
* [[July 15]]
** The [[Four-Power Pact]] is signed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
** The [[Left Opposition|International Left Opposition]] (ILO) is renamed the International Communist League (ICL).
* [[July 20]] – ''[[Reichskonkordat]]'': Vatican state secretary Eugenio Pacelli (later [[Pope Pius XII]]) signs an accord with Germany.
* [[July 22]]
** [[Wiley Post]] becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, landing at [[Floyd Bennett Field]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York, after traveling eastbound {{convert|15596|mi|km|abbr=on}} in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.
** "[[Machine Gun Kelly (gangster)|Machine Gun Kelly]]" and [[Albert Bates (criminal)|Albert Bates]] kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom.

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1933}}
* [[August 1]] – The Blue Eagle emblem of the [[National Recovery Administration]] in the United States is displayed publicly for the first time.
* [[August 2]] – The [[White Sea–Baltic Canal]], Stalin's 227 [[km]] [[ship canal]] constructed using [[forced labour]] in the [[Soviet Union]], opens, connecting the [[White Sea]] with [[Lake Onega]] and the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]].
* [[August 7]] – [[Simele massacre]]: More than 3,000 [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] Iraqis are killed by [[Iraq]]i government troops.
* [[August 12]] – British politician [[Winston Churchill]] makes his first speech publicly warning of the dangers of German rearmament.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=376–377|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] – Loggers cause a [[forest fire]] in the [[Oregon Coast Range|Coast Range]] of [[Oregon]], later known as the first forest fire of the [[Tillamook Burn]]. It is extinguished on [[September 5]], after destroying {{convert|240,000|acre|km2}}.
* [[August 25]] – The [[1933 Diexi earthquake|Diexi earthquake]] shakes [[Mao County]], [[Sichuan]], China and kills 9,000 people.
* [[August 30]] – German-Jewish philosopher [[Theodor Lessing]] is shot in Marienbad ([[Mariánské Lázně]]), [[Czechoslovakia]], dying the following day.

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1933}}
* [[September 12]]
** [[Alejandro Lerroux]] forms a new government in Spain.
** [[Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on [[Southampton Row]] in [[Bloomsbury]] (London), conceives the idea of the [[nuclear chain reaction]].
* [[September 26]] – [[1933 Tampico hurricane]]: A hurricane destroys the town of [[Tampico]], [[Mexico]].

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1933}}
* [[October 1]] – [[Engelbert Dollfuss]], leader of the [[Fatherland's Front]] in Austria, is seriously injured in a failed assassination attempt.
* [[October 7]] – [[Air France]] is formed by the merger of five French airline companies, beginning operations with 250 planes.
* [[October 10]] – [[1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion]]: A bomb destroys a [[United Airlines]] [[Boeing 247]] on a transcontinental flight in mid-air near [[Chesterton, Indiana]], killing all 7 on board, in the first proven case of sabotage in civil aviation, although no suspect is ever identified.
* [[October 12]] – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on [[Alcatraz]] is acquired by the [[United States Department of Justice]], which plans to incorporate the island into its [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] as a [[Prison|penitentiary]].
* [[October 14]] – Germany announces its withdrawal from the [[League of Nations]] and the World Disarmament Conference, after the U.S., the U.K. and France deny its request to increase its defence armaments under the Versailles Treaty.
* [[October 14]]–[[October 16|16]] – The [[Constitution of Estonia#Second Constitution (1934–1938)|new constitution]] of [[Estonia]] is approved only on the [[October 1933 Estonian constitutional referendum|third consecutive referendum]].
* [[October 16]] – [[Parricide]]s committed in the United States by [[Victor Licata]] lead to calls for the legal prohibition of [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]].
* [[October 17]] – Scientist [[Albert Einstein]] arrives from Europe in the United States, where he settles permanently as a refugee from [[Nazi Germany]] and takes up a position at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]], [[Princeton, New Jersey]].

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1933}}
* [[November 5]] – Spanish [[Basque people]] [[1933 Basque autonomy referendum|vote for autonomy]].
* [[November 8]]
** [[New Deal]]: U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] unveils the [[Civil Works Administration]], an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4&nbsp;million of the unemployed.
** [[Mohammad Zahir Shah]] becomes [[King of Afghanistan]] at the age of 19, following the assassination of his father King [[Mohammad Nadir Shah]].
* [[November 11]] – [[Dust Bowl]]: In [[South Dakota]], a very strong [[dust storm]] ("the great black blizzard") strips [[topsoil]] from desiccated farmlands (one of a series of disastrous dust storms this year).
* [[November 12]] &ndash; Japan Precision Optical Industry, predecessor of the global [[Canon Inc.|Canon]] [[camera]] and [[photocopier]] [[brand]] is founded in Japan.<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Canon 1933-1961|url=https://global.canon/en/corporate/history/01.html|website=Canon|access-date=2021-11-14}}</ref>
* [[November 16]]
** The United States and the [[Soviet Union]] establish formal [[Diplomacy|diplomatic relations]].
** American aviator [[Jimmie Angel]] becomes the first foreigner to see the [[Angel Falls]] in [[Venezuela]] (they are named after him).
* [[November 17]] – The [[Marx Brothers]]' [[anarchic comedy film]] ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]'' is released in the United States.
* [[November 19]] – [[Second Spanish Republic]]: General elections result in a victory by the right-wing parties.
* [[November 22]] – The [[Fujian People's Government]] is declared in [[Fujian Province]], China.

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1933}}
* [[December 5]] – The [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution]] is ratified, [[Repeal of Prohibition in the United States|repealing Prohibition in the United States]], making production and sale of alcohol legal in the U.S.
* [[December 17]] – The [[1933 NFL Championship Game|first NFL Championship game]] in American football is played. The [[Chicago Bears]] defeat the [[New York Giants]] 23–21.
* [[December 21]] – [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]] returns to [[Crown colony]] status, following financial collapse.<ref name=CBH/>
* [[December 23]] – [[Lagny-Pomponne rail accident]]: A train collision near [[Lagny-sur-Marne]] in France kills 204.
* [[December 26]]
** [[Montevideo Convention]] on the Rights and Duties of States is signed by participants in the 7th [[International Conference of American States]]; it is significant in the development of the [[Sovereign state#Declarative theory|declarative theory of statehood]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100005689|title=Convention on Rights and Duties of State|year=2024|department=UIA Global Civil Society Database|website=uia.org|publisher=[[Union of International Associations]]|agency=Yearbook of International Organizations Online|location=Brussels|access-date=2025-01-12|url-status=}}</ref>
** The [[Nissan Motors|Nissan]] Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.
** [[Frequency modulation|FM radio]] is patented.
* [[December 29]] – Members of the [[Iron Guard]] assassinate [[Ion Gheorghe Duca]], prime minister of [[Romania]].

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* [[Turkey]] concludes a treaty with the creditors of the former [[Ottoman Empire]] to schedule the payments in Paris (Turkey succeeds in clearing all the debt in less than twenty years).
* The [[Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery]] is created by the [[League of Nations]]. <ref>Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 216</ref>
* The first dated [[Inter-School Christian Fellowship]] group is started in Australia at [[North Sydney Boys High School]], with the group continuing into the 21st century.
* The ''[[Adélaïde Concerto]]'', a spurious violin work attributed to [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], is published as "edited" (actually composed) by [[Marius Casadesus]].