Editing 1933 (section)

=== 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.