Historical Events in 1933 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 360 of 360

• Jun 30 US Assay Offices close in Helena, MT, Boise, ID and Salt Lake City, UT
• Jul 1 114°F (45.6°C), Las Animas, Colorado (state record, tied in 1954; broken in 2019)
• Jul 1 German nazi regime declares that married women shouldn't work

• Jul 1 Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres at the Semperoper Opera House in Dresden, Germany
• Jul 1 The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.

• Jul 4 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
• Jul 5 German party Catholic Center disbands

• Jul 8 US Public Works Administration becomes effective
• Jul 9 Philadelphia-based NFL team Frankford Yellow Jackets sold; rebranded Philadelphia Eagles
• Jul 10 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
• Jul 12 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
• Jul 14 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany
• Jul 14 Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses
• Jul 14 Hedley Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44 for Yorkshire at Leyton

• Jul 17 After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Germany under mysterious circumstances

• Jul 20 Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets
• Jul 20 In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism

• Jul 21 Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens
• Jul 22 Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida" at the New York Hippodrome, becoming the 1st black female opera singer to perform in the US
• Jul 22 Wiley Post completes the 1st solo flight round the world, takes 7 days and 19 hours

• Jul 28 NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
• Jul 28 Spain recognizes the USSR

• Aug 1 Death penalty for anti-fascists in Germany

• Aug 1 NY's future Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell sets MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings at 45 1/3 as Giants lose 3-1 v Boston Braves
• Aug 3 Philadelphia A's beat NY Yankees, 7-0, first time in 308 games 'Bronx Bombers' are shut out
• Aug 7 The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
• Aug 12 Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
• Aug 13 Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist

• Aug 17 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
• Aug 22 18th International Zionists Congress opens in Prague, Czechoslovakia
• Aug 22 Chicago Cubs president William Veeck, Sr. urges MLB to incorporate midsummer inter-league games and a split season
• Aug 23 First televised boxing match — 6-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Lauri Raiteri; aired by BBC-TV

• Aug 26 Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
• Aug 30 Air France forms from five French airlines

• Sep 1 US Navy renames NAS Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, California, NAS Moffett Field, in honor of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett; Moffett championed the construction of the base, but died in the crash of airship USS Akron before the base opened
• Sep 3 Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m)
• Sep 4 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il

• Sep 10 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
• Sep 11 Antwerps Sportpaleis, the largest indoor arena in Europe opens; renovated 2010-13
• Sep 12 Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government
• Sep 12 Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms

• Sep 13 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first New Zealand female Member of Parliament
• Sep 14 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
• Sep 19 NY Giants clinch the pennant
• Sep 20 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
• Sep 21 Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens
• Sep 23 MLB New York Yankees commit 5 errors (3 by shortstop Frankie Crosetti), but beat Red Sox 16-12 at Fenway Park, Boston
• Sep 25 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
• Sep 25 5th "extermination campaign" begins against communists in Nanjing and Jiangxi province, China
• Sep 25 Netherlands opens the Afsluitdijk, a dam and motorway that completes its damming of the Zuiderzee, an inlet of the North Sea - considered one of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World
• Sep 26 Sidney Kingsley's play "Men in White" premieres in NYC (Pulitzer prize for Drama 1934)
• Sep 29 Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debuts
• Sep 30 Berlin/Hart/Heyman/Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer," premieres in NYC

• Oct 1 Washington Senators coach Nick Altrock plays in a MLB game at age 57 as a pinch-hitter; faces Rube Walberg of the Philadelphia A's; goes hitless in 3-0 loss

• Oct 3 Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
• Oct 4 Esquire magazine is 1st published
• Oct 8 Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters
• Oct 8 Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
• Oct 10 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
• Oct 12 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)

• Oct 13 JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich" premieres in Paris
• Oct 13 Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren
• Oct 14 Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations
• Oct 15 20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect, changing the start of a Presidential term from March to January

• Oct 15 Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0

• Oct 19 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936

• Oct 23 John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank, in Greencastle, Indiana. They take $75, 000.
• Oct 26 French government of Albert Sarraut forms

• Nov 4 Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
• Nov 5 Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
• Nov 5 Spanish Basques vote for autonomy

• Nov 7 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports

• Nov 10 Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
• Nov 11 "Great Black Blizzard" 1st of the great dust storms that created the dust bowl rips through South Dakota

• Nov 12 1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Eagles tie Chicago Bears, 3-3
• Nov 12 1st NFL football game on a Sunday at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field - sporting events on Sunday had been illegal on Sundays; Pirates lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0
• Nov 12 First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken by Hugh Gray
• Nov 12 Nazis receive 92% of vote in German parliamentary elections
• Nov 13 First modern sit-down strike by Hormel meat packers in Austin, Minnesota

• Nov 16 Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky publishes the first evidence for the existence of dark matter in his seminal article "The Redshift of Extragalactic Nebulae" [1]
• Nov 16 US President Franklin Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
• Nov 17 Marx brothers film "Duck Soup" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers is released in the US
• Nov 17 United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade
• Nov 19 Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
• Nov 21 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service

• Nov 25 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
• Nov 26 Camille Chautemps becomes French premier for the second time
• Nov 28 A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis
• Nov 29 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
• Nov 29 Japan begins persecution of communists
• Nov 30 CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District

• Dec 3 Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
• Dec 4 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
• Dec 4 Jack Kirkland's play "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC, became the longest-running play of its time
• Dec 5 Prohibition ends in the US when 21st Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, 18th Amendment repealed (5:32 PM EST)

• Dec 8 French nun Bernadette Soubirous, who saw the vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, is canonized by the Catholic Church
• Dec 9 Romania prohibits fascist Iron Guard

• Dec 15 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
• Dec 16 Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
• Dec 17 Bryan Valentine (136) and Lala Amarnath (102no) score centuries on their Test Cricket debut on Day 3 of 1st Test between England and India at Bombay
• Dec 17 Spain's 2nd government of Lerroux forms
• Dec 19 US President Roosevelt creates Electric Home & Farm Authority (EHFA) to assist low income household with purchase of major appliances [1]
• Dec 20 Bolivia & Paraguay sign cease fire
• Dec 21 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania

• Dec 21 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony of Great Britain

• Dec 23 Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
• Dec 24 Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
• Dec 25 Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
• Dec 25 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
• Dec 25 Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria v Tasmania at Hobart
• Dec 26 FM radio patent granted to American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong
• Dec 26 US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere

• Dec 29 New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert refuses to release future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds
• Dec 30 -50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
• Dec 30 Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service
• Dec 30 Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton

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