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Date	Event
January 3, 1933	Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
January 5, 1933	Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
January 24, 1933	The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
January 28, 1933	The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
January 30, 1933	Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.
February 3, 1933	Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Nazi foreign policy.
February 5, 1933	Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
February 10, 1933	In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
February 15, 1933	In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6.
February 20, 1933	The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
February 20, 1933	Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
February 25, 1933	Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy.
February 27, 1933	Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility.
March 4, 1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States. He was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4.
March 4, 1933	Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
March 4, 1933	The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure
March 5, 1933	Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
March 6, 1933	Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
March 9, 1933	Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
March 10, 1933	The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area, leaving around 108 people dead.
March 12, 1933	Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
March 20, 1933	Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
March 22, 1933	Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
March 22, 1933	Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.
March 23, 1933	The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
March 28, 1933	The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
March 31, 1933	The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
April 1, 1933	The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
April 3, 1933	First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
April 4, 1933	U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
April 5, 1933	U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
April 5, 1933	Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage.
April 7, 1933	Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
April 7, 1933	Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.
April 24, 1933	Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
April 26, 1933	The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
April 26, 1933	Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
May 2, 1933	Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front.
May 6, 1933	The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
May 8, 1933	Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
May 10, 1933	Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
May 12, 1933	The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
May 12, 1933	President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the predecessor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
May 15, 1933	All military aviation organizations within or under the control of the RLM of Germany were officially merged in a covert manner to form its Wehrmacht military's air arm, the Luftwaffe.
May 17, 1933	Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
May 18, 1933	New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
May 19, 1933	Finnish cavalry general C. G. E. Mannerheim was appointed the field marshal.
May 25, 1933	The Walt Disney Company cartoon Three Little Pigs premieres at Radio City Music Hall, featuring the hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
May 27, 1933	New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
June 6, 1933	The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
June 16, 1933	The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.
June 17, 1933	Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
July 6, 1933	The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
July 8, 1933	The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
July 14, 1933	In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
July 14, 1933	Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring requiring the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.
July 22, 1933	Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
August 1, 1933	Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
August 7, 1933	The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.
August 14, 1933	Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.
August 16, 1933	Christie Pits riot takes place in Toronto, Ontario.
August 18, 1933	The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the ‘eighth great power’.
August 24, 1933	The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
August 25, 1933	The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
August 27, 1933	The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
August 31, 1933	The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage.
September 3, 1933	Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
September 8, 1933	Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
September 12, 1933	Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
September 13, 1933	Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
September 21, 1933	Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
September 26, 1933	As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
October 7, 1933	Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.
October 10, 1933	A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
October 12, 1933	The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
October 14, 1933	Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
October 17, 1933	Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
November 7, 1933	Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
November 8, 1933	Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.
November 12, 1933	Nazi Germany uses a referendum to ratify its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
November 15, 1933	Thailand held its first election.
November 16, 1933	The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
December 5, 1933	The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
December 6, 1933	U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
December 17, 1933	The first NFL Championship Game is played at Wrigley Field in Chicago between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears. The Bears won 23–21.