The International Court of Justice in The Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark, condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland Machine gun demonstrated in Japan 1,000 shots per minute Editors of the Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House (it is returned two days later) Joe DiMaggio’s 61 game hitting streak ends in July Aviator Bill Lancaster attempts a speed record from England to the Cape of Good Hope. His body is found in the Sahara Desert in 1962. Coit Tower is dedicated to SF firefighters First baseball All Star Game is played at Comiskey Park as part of the World’s Fair Nobel Price for Literature – Ivan Bunin Lone Ranger debuted on radio The first flight over Mount Everest is made by the British Houston- Mount Everest Flight Expedition Welsh journalist Gareth Jones makes the first report in the West of the Holodomor famine genocide in Ukraine First drive in movie theater in NJ Newfoundland returns to Crown colony status, following financial collapse Birthday buddies (group 2): Willie Nelson, Roman Polanski, Quincy Jones, Marty Feldman, Jayne Mansfield Wiley Post first person to fly solo around the world Miracle Whip by Kraft Average cost of a new home $5,750 Birthday buddies (group 3): Carol Burnett, James Brown, Johnny Unitas, Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder Strong winds lead to Dust Bowl Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany FDIC created Nobel Price for Physiology or Medicine – Thomas Hunt Morgan The film King Kong premieres in March FM radio The Adélaïde Concerto, a spurious work attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is published as "edited" (actually composed) by Marius Casadesus Japan Precision Optical Industry, predecessor Canon is founded in Japan In August, Lou Gehrig plays 1,308 games straight breaking a record "Machine Gun Kelly" and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom Worst year of depression, over 25% unemployment The first NFL Championship game in American football is played. The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23-21 Toll House Cookies invented First minimum wage law establishes 33 cents/hr In October, Babe Ruth makes his final pitching performance pitching all 9 innings Long Beach earthquake shakes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII Édouard Daladier forms a government in France succeeding Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is shortly succeeded by Albert Sarraut and then by Camille Chautemps. Radio Telescope invented - Karl Jansky 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago Einstein immigrates to US Kit Kat candy bar invented US Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover 21st amendment passes, prohibition ends Francis Perkins, first women to sit in the Cabinet Labor Secretary The year MCMXXXIII The London Passenger Transport Board begins operation Nobel Price for Physics – Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Average price of a movie was 25 cents Opened Dachau as first concentration camp Haifa harbor opens in Palestine The London Economic Conference is held US officially leaves the gold standard Birthday buddies (group 1): Larry King, Joan Collins, Michael Caine, Yoko Ono, Michael Dukakis First issue of Newsweek On March 13, the Dow rose over 15% from 53.84 to 65.10 FDR unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations The first alleged modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster occurs Calvin Coolidge dies Caterina Jarboro becomes the first African American opera singer to perform in the US in Aida Gallon of gas 10 cents The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan First of fireside chats begin in March Smedley Butler becomes involved in a coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against the president (FDR) which fails Popular song “We’re In The Money” and “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” Nobel Price for Peace – Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) Civilian Conservation Corps created Construction of Golden Gate bridge begins 20th Amendment is ratified changing the date of Presidential inauguration to Jan. 20 First singing telegram was delivered to Rudy Valle in NY As a member of the English cricket team touring New Zealand, 1933, batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs in a test match American aviator Jimmie Angel becomes the first foreigner to see the Angel Falls in Venezuela The International Court of Justice in The Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark, condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland Machine gun demonstrated in Japan 1,000 shots per minute Editors of the Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House (it is returned two days later) Joe DiMaggio’s 61 game hitting streak ends in July Aviator Bill Lancaster attempts a speed record from England to the Cape of Good Hope. His body is found in the Sahara Desert in 1962. Coit Tower is dedicated to SF firefighters First baseball All Star Game is played at Comiskey Park as part of the World’s Fair Nobel Price for Literature – Ivan Bunin Lone Ranger debuted on radio The first flight over Mount Everest is made by the British Houston- Mount Everest Flight Expedition Welsh journalist Gareth Jones makes the first report in the West of the Holodomor famine genocide in Ukraine First drive in movie theater in NJ Newfoundland returns to Crown colony status, following financial collapse Birthday buddies (group 2): Willie Nelson, Roman Polanski, Quincy Jones, Marty Feldman, Jayne Mansfield Wiley Post first person to fly solo around the world Miracle Whip by Kraft Average cost of a new home $5,750 Birthday buddies (group 3): Carol Burnett, James Brown, Johnny Unitas, Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder Strong winds lead to Dust Bowl Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany FDIC created Nobel Price for Physiology or Medicine – Thomas Hunt Morgan The film King Kong premieres in March FM radio The Adélaïde Concerto, a spurious work attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is published as "edited" (actually composed) by Marius Casadesus Japan Precision Optical Industry, predecessor Canon is founded in Japan In August, Lou Gehrig plays 1,308 games straight breaking a record "Machine Gun Kelly" and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom Worst year of depression, over 25% unemployment The first NFL Championship game in American football is played. The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23-21 Toll House Cookies invented First minimum wage law establishes 33 cents/hr In October, Babe Ruth makes his final pitching performance pitching all 9 innings Long Beach earthquake shakes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII Édouard Daladier forms a government in France succeeding Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is shortly succeeded by Albert Sarraut and then by Camille Chautemps. Radio Telescope invented - Karl Jansky 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago Einstein immigrates to US Kit Kat candy bar invented US Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover 21st amendment passes, prohibition ends Francis Perkins, first women to sit in the Cabinet Labor Secretary The year MCMXXXIII The London Passenger Transport Board begins operation Nobel Price for Physics – Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Average price of a movie was 25 cents Opened Dachau as first concentration camp Haifa harbor opens in Palestine The London Economic Conference is held US officially leaves the gold standard Birthday buddies (group 1): Larry King, Joan Collins, Michael Caine, Yoko Ono, Michael Dukakis First issue of Newsweek On March 13, the Dow rose over 15% from 53.84 to 65.10 FDR unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations The first alleged modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster occurs Calvin Coolidge dies Caterina Jarboro becomes the first African American opera singer to perform in the US in Aida Gallon of gas 10 cents The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan First of fireside chats begin in March Smedley Butler becomes involved in a coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against the president (FDR) which fails Popular song “We’re In The Money” and “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” Nobel Price for Peace – Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) Civilian Conservation Corps created Construction of Golden Gate bridge begins 20th Amendment is ratified changing the date of Presidential inauguration to Jan. 20 First singing telegram was delivered to Rudy Valle in NY As a member of the English cricket team touring New Zealand, 1933, batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs in a test match American aviator Jimmie Angel becomes the first foreigner to see the Angel Falls in Venezuela
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The International Court of Justice in The Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark, condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland
Machine gun demonstrated in Japan 1,000 shots per minute
Editors of the Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House (it is returned two days later)
Joe DiMaggio’s 61 game hitting streak ends in July
Aviator Bill Lancaster attempts a speed record from England to the Cape of Good Hope. His body is found in the Sahara Desert in 1962.
Coit Tower is dedicated to SF firefighters
First baseball All Star Game is played at Comiskey Park as part of the World’s Fair
Nobel Price for Literature – Ivan Bunin
Lone Ranger debuted on radio
The first flight over Mount Everest is made by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition
Welsh journalist Gareth Jones makes the first report in the West of the Holodomor famine genocide in Ukraine
First drive in movie theater in NJ
Newfoundland returns to Crown colony status, following financial collapse
Birthday buddies (group 2): Willie Nelson, Roman Polanski, Quincy Jones, Marty Feldman, Jayne Mansfield
Wiley Post first person to fly solo around the world
Miracle Whip by Kraft
Average cost of a new home $5,750
Birthday buddies (group 3): Carol Burnett, James Brown, Johnny Unitas, Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder
Strong winds lead to Dust Bowl
Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany
FDIC created
Nobel Price for Physiology or Medicine – Thomas Hunt Morgan
The film King Kong premieres in March
FM radio
The Adélaïde Concerto, a spurious work attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is published as "edited" (actually composed) by Marius Casadesus
Japan Precision Optical Industry, predecessor Canon is founded in Japan
In August, Lou Gehrig plays 1,308 games straight breaking a record
"Machine Gun Kelly" and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom
Worst year of depression, over 25% unemployment
The first NFL Championship game in American football is played. The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23-21
Toll House Cookies invented
First minimum wage law establishes 33 cents/hr
In October, Babe Ruth makes his final pitching performance pitching all 9 innings
Long Beach earthquake shakes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII
Édouard Daladier forms a government in France succeeding Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is shortly succeeded by Albert Sarraut and then by Camille Chautemps.
Radio Telescope invented - Karl Jansky
1933 World’s Fair in Chicago
Einstein immigrates to US
Kit Kat candy bar invented
US Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover
21st amendment passes, prohibition ends
Francis Perkins, first women to sit in the Cabinet Labor Secretary
The year MCMXXXIII
The London Passenger Transport Board begins operation
Nobel Price for Physics – Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Average price of a movie was 25 cents
Opened Dachau as first concentration camp
Haifa harbor opens in Palestine
The London Economic Conference is held
US officially leaves the gold standard
Birthday buddies (group 1): Larry King, Joan Collins, Michael Caine, Yoko Ono, Michael Dukakis
First issue of Newsweek
On March 13, the Dow rose over 15% from 53.84 to 65.10
FDR unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed
The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations
The first alleged modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster occurs
Calvin Coolidge dies
Caterina Jarboro becomes the first African American opera singer to perform in the US in Aida
Gallon of gas 10 cents
The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan
First of fireside chats begin in March
Smedley Butler becomes involved in a coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against the president (FDR) which fails
Popular song “We’re In The Money” and “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
Nobel Price for Peace – Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
Civilian Conservation Corps created
Construction of Golden Gate bridge begins
20th Amendment is ratified changing the date of Presidential inauguration to Jan. 20
First singing telegram was delivered to Rudy Valle in NY
As a member of the English cricket team touring New Zealand, 1933, batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs in a test match
American aviator Jimmie Angel becomes the first foreigner to see the Angel Falls in Venezuela
