Editing 1933 (section)

=== 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]].