Editing 1933 (section)

=== 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.