Notable Historical Events - 1933
1933 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test |
Jan 2 |
Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3 |
Jan 2 |
Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th) |
Jan 2 |
US troops leave Nicaragua |
Jan 3 |
Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States. |
Jan 5 |
Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side |
Jan 6 |
Clyde Barrow kills Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis after walking into a trap set for another criminal |
Jan 7 |
1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands |
Jan 9 |
Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction |
Jan 12 |
US Congress recognize independence Philippines |
Jan 12 |
Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies |
Jan 16 |
Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test |
Jan 17 |
Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled |
Jan 18 |
White Sands National Monument, NM established |
Jan 23 |
20th amendment ratified changed date of US presidential inaugurations to 1/20 |
Jan 24 |
Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in NYC |
Jan 27 |
Otto Meisnner (Head of the German President's Office) dines with British ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold |
Jan 28 |
French government of Paul Boncour falls |
Jan 28 |
German government of Von Schleicher falls |
Jan 28 |
The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence. |
Jan 29 |
German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor |
Jan 30 |
"Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio |
Jan 30 |
Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen |
Jan 30 |
Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match |
Jan 31 |
French government of Daladier takes power |
Jan 31 |
Hitler promises parliamentary democracy |
Feb 1 |
Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname |
Feb 1 |
Dutch bishops forbid membership of non-catholic unions |
Feb 1 |
German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe |
Feb 2 |
2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament |
Feb 2 |
Hermann Goering bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany |
Feb 2 |
Ucicky's "Rotten Morning," premieres in Berlin |
Feb 3 |
1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC |
Feb 3 |
German Minister Hermann Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts |
Feb 3 |
Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin |
Feb 4 |
-Feb 10] Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts |
Feb 4 |
German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press |
Feb 5 |
Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary |
Feb 6 |
-90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record) |
Feb 6 |
Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in North Pacific hurricane by USS Ramapo |
Feb 6 |
Pres von Hindenburg & von Papen ends Prussian parliament |
Feb 7 |
Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators |
Feb 7 |
Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead |
Feb 8 |
-23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record) |
Feb 8 |
1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247 |
Feb 9 |
-63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record) |
Feb 10 |
-54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record) |
Feb 10 |
Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC) |
Feb 10 |
Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship |
Feb 10 |
Hitler proclaims end of Marxism |
Feb 10 |
Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed |
Feb 12 |
German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis |
Feb 15 |
Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party |
Feb 15 |
Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt |
Feb 15 |
Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin |
Feb 16 |
Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists |
Feb 16 |
England regains the Ashes, thanks to bodyline tactics |
Feb 17 |
1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine published |
Feb 17 |
Marinus van der Lubbe arrives in Glindow, at Potsdam |
Feb 17 |
US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition |
Feb 19 |
Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers |
Feb 20 |
Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech |
Feb 20 |
House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition |
Feb 20 |
Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn," premieres in NYC |
Feb 24 |
Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin |
Feb 24 |
League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria |
Feb 25 |
1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger |
Feb 25 |
Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line) |
Feb 25 |
Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox |
Feb 26 |
Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field |
Feb 26 |
Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell |
Feb 27 |
German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire |
Feb 27 |
Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris |
Feb 27 |
Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on Communists |
Feb 28 |
1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor |
Feb 28 |
German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion |
Feb 28 |
Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD) |
Mar 1 |
Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks |
Mar 2 |
"King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC |
Mar 2 |
Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan |
Mar 3 |
German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested |
Mar 3 |
Mount Rushmore dedicated |
Mar 3 |
NYC premiere of "King Kong" |
Mar 4 |
Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament |
Mar 4 |
Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member |
Mar 4 |
Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC |
Mar 4 |
Noordwijk soccer team forms |
Mar 4 |
FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" |
Mar 4 |
Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. |
Mar 5 |
FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday |
Mar 5 |
Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) |
Mar 6 |
FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday |
Mar 6 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses" premieres in NYC |
Mar 6 |
Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) |
Mar 7 |
Game of "Monopoly" invented |
Mar 9 |
Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin |
Mar 9 |
Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days" |
Mar 10 |
Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif |
Mar 10 |
Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics |
Mar 12 |
FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat" |
Mar 13 |
Banks reopen |
Mar 13 |
Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda |
Mar 14 |
Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation |
Mar 15 |
NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination |
Mar 16 |
Hitler names Hjalmar Schacht, president of Bank of Germany |
Mar 18 |
Radio Clube de Mocambique's 1st radio transmission |
Mar 18 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
Mar 18 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
Mar 20 |
Dachau, 1st Nazi concentration camp, completed |
Mar 21 |
Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin |
Mar 22 |
FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal |
Mar 23 |
Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers |
Mar 23 |
Kroll Opera in Berlin opens |
Mar 24 |
Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency |
Mar 27 |
Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized |
Mar 27 |
Japan leaves League of Nations |
Mar 27 |
Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett |
Mar 28 |
German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler |
Mar 31 |
1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga) |
Mar 31 |
Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps |
Mar 31 |
German Republic gives power to Hitler |
Apr 1 |
Hammond scores 336* v NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes |
Apr 1 |
Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany |
Apr 1 |
Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses |
Apr 3 |
1st airplane flight over Mt Everest |
Apr 3 |
Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0 |
Apr 4 |
US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die |
Apr 7 |
1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service |
Apr 7 |
'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer |
Apr 7 |
University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic |
Apr 8 |
Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror |
Apr 11 |
Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia |
Apr 12 |
Moffatt Field commissioned |
Apr 13 |
1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale) |
Apr 13 |
Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 |
Apr 17 |
Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL Game beating NY Giants 23-21 |
Apr 19 |
37th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:31:01.6 |
Apr 19 |
FDR announces US will leave gold standard |
Apr 22 |
Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address |
Apr 23 |
Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal |
Apr 24 |
1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell) |
Apr 25 |
NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0 |
Apr 25 |
US & Canada drop Gold Standard |
Apr 26 |
Jewish students are barred from school in Germany |
Apr 27 |
Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Wash DC |
Apr 27 |
Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership's first shop outside London. |
May 2 |
In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions |
May 3 |
1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office |
May 4 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) |
May 6 |
59th Kentucky Derby: Don Meade aboard Brokers Tip wins in 2:06.8 |
May 6 |
Italy & USSR sign trade agreement |
May 8 |
Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India. |
May 9 |
Spanish anarchists call for general strike |
May 10 |
Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms |
May 10 |
Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany |
May 10 |
Paraguay declares war on Bolivia |
May 10 |
Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands |
May 12 |
Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers |
May 13 |
59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02 |
May 15 |
1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate |
May 16 |
Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game |
May 17 |
Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. |
May 18 |
Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams |
May 18 |
1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair |
May 21 |
Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph |
May 22 |
Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay |
May 22 |
World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated |
May 24 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's Preludes premieres in Moscow |
May 26 |
2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms |
May 26 |
Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards |
May 27 |
Austrian communist party banned |
May 27 |
Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago |
May 27 |
Federal Securities Act signed |
May 27 |
Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11 |
May 27 |
Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released |
May 30 |
Patent on invisible glass installation |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Louis Meyer wins in 4:48:00.774 (167.632 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago |
Jun 2 |
FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House |
Jun 2 |
WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air |
Jun 3 |
A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11 |
Jun 3 |
Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain" |
Jun 5 |
Gold standard abolished |
Jun 6 |
1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ) |
Jun 6 |
US Employment Service created |
Jun 7 |
George Balanchine/Kurt Weills "7 Deadly Sins" premiers in Paris |
Jun 8 |
A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs |
Jun 9 |
Spanish president Zamora takes power |
Jun 9 |
Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager |
Jun 10 |
37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill |
Jun 10 |
65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6 |
Jun 10 |
John Dillinger robs his first bank, in New Carlisle, Ohio. He takes $10, 600 |
Jun 10 |
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Park flip their car into a ravine, and Parker suffers serious third degree burns from the accident which would affect her for the rest of her life |
Jun 12 |
Financial & Economy World conference opens (66 countries) |
Jun 13 |
1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY) |
Jun 13 |
Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized |
Jun 13 |
German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Göring |
Jun 14 |
Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games |
Jun 16 |
National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down) |
Jun 16 |
US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created |
Jun 17 |
Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob |
Jun 19 |
Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations |
Jun 21 |
1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans |
Jun 22 |
German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden |
Jun 23 |
Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC |
Jun 27 |
4th Ryder Cup: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½ at Southport & Ainsdale, England |
Jun 29 |
Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 30 |
50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war |
Jun 30 |
Card's Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2 |
Jun 30 |
US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes |
Jul 1 |
German nazi regime declares that married women shouldn't work |
Jul 1 |
Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden |
Jul 1 |
The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. |
Jul 2 |
Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk |
Jul 4 |
Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge |
Jul 5 |
German party Catholic Center disbands |
Jul 6 |
1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Babe Ruth hits first All Star home run |
Jul 7 |
53rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Crawford beats E Vines (4-6 11-9 6-2 2-6 6-4) |
Jul 8 |
46th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (6-4 6-8 6-3) |
Jul 8 |
Public Works Administration becomes effective |
Jul 8 |
68th British Golf Open: Denny Shute shoots a 292 at Old Course at St Andrews |
Jul 9 |
Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened 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 |
Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness |
Jul 14 |
NSDAP (Nazis) becomes only political party in Germany |
Jul 14 |
Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44, at Leyton |
Jul 15 |
Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world |
Jul 17 |
After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances. |
Jul 19 |
1st time brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox |
Jul 19 |
Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers |
Jul 20 |
Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler |
Jul 20 |
In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism. |
Jul 20 |
Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. |
Jul 21 |
Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens |
Jul 22 |
1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post) |
Jul 22 |
Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida", NYC-1st negro prima donna in US |
Jul 24 |
German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe |
Jul 25 |
1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington |
Jul 26 |
Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League |
Jul 28 |
1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC |
Jul 28 |
NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions |
Jul 28 |
Spain recognizes the USSR |
Jul 30 |
28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2) |
Aug 1 |
Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3) |
Aug 1 |
Death penality for anti-fascists in Germany |
Aug 1 |
Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrests Sukarno |
Aug 1 |
NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms |
Aug 3 |
Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931) |
Aug 7 |
The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day. |
Aug 11 |
Temp reaches 136°F (57.8°C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record) |
Aug 12 |
Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup |
Aug 13 |
16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee |
Aug 13 |
Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist |
Aug 14 |
Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle & sets AL record with 9 RBIs |
Aug 17 |
Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game |
Aug 17 |
Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") |
Aug 19 |
47th US Women's Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (8-6 3-6 3-0 ret) |
Aug 22 |
Bill Veeck urges midsummer inter-league games & a split season |
Aug 22 |
International Zionists Congress opens in Prague |
Aug 23 |
1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London |
Aug 23 |
Mahatma Gandhi released from Indian jail following yet another hunger strike |
Aug 26 |
Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km) |
Aug 27 |
Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0 |
Aug 30 |
Air France forms |
Aug 30 |
Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE) |
Sep 1 |
Soccer team DVS '33 forms |
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 4 |
Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista |
Sep 8 |
Spain's 2nd government of Azaña forms |
Sep 9 |
53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (6-3 11-13 4-6 6-0 6-1) |
Sep 10 |
1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park) |
Sep 10 |
53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (6-3 11-13 4-6 6-0 6-1) |
Sep 11 |
Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship |
Sep 12 |
Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government |
Sep 12 |
Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms |
Sep 12 |
Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. |
Sep 13 |
Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first New Zealand woman Member of Parliament |
Sep 14 |
2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire |
Sep 14 |
Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London |
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 |
Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12 |
Sep 25 |
1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia |
Sep 25 |
5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China |
Sep 26 |
Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White" premieres in NYC |
Sep 28 |
Greer Garson wed Edward Snelson |
Sep 29 |
Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut |
Sep 30 |
Berlin/Hart/Heyman/Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer," premieres in NYC |
Oct 1 |
Antwerp Sports arena opens |
Oct 1 |
Packers make 5 1st downs, Giants make 0, but still win 10-7 |
Oct 1 |
Wash Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57 |
Oct 2 |
Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness" premieres in NYC |
Oct 3 |
Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant |
Oct 4 |
Esquire magazine is 1st published |
Oct 7 |
NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series |
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 12 |
John Dillinger escapes from jail in Allen County, Ohio |
Oct 12 |
Gangster George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun Kelly, is sentenced to life imprisonment |
Oct 13 |
JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich" premieres in Paris |
Oct 13 |
Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren |
Oct 14 |
Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations |
Oct 15 |
20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March |
Oct 15 |
Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0 |
Oct 17 |
Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany |
Oct 19 |
Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936 |
Oct 22 |
Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 23 |
John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank, in Greencastle, Indiana. They take $75, 000 |
Oct 24 |
Langston Hughes' "Mulatto" premieres in NYC |
Oct 26 |
French government of Serraut forms |
Oct 27 |
Valentin Boreyko, Russia, rower (Oly Gld 1960), (d. 2012) |
Nov 4 |
Bradman scores 200 NSW v Queensland, 184 mins, 26 fours |
Nov 4 |
Hermann Goering & Georgi Dimitrov duel |
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 7 |
Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City. |
Nov 8 |
FDR creates Civil Works Administration |
Nov 10 |
Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic |
Nov 11 |
"Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in Great Plains |
Nov 11 |
Billie Holiday's second song and first hit, "Riffin' the Scotch", is released |
Nov 12 |
1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) |
Nov 12 |
1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0 |
Nov 12 |
First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken |
Nov 12 |
Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany |
Nov 13 |
1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn |
Nov 16 |
Brazilian President Getulio Vargas declares himself dictator |
Nov 16 |
Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR |
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 |
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 1 |
Rudolf Hess & Earnest Rohm become a minister in Hitler government |
Dec 2 |
Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady", released |
Dec 3 |
Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000 |
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 "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC |
Dec 5 |
21st Amendment ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST) |
Dec 6 |
Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US lifted |
Dec 9 |
21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3 |
Dec 9 |
Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard |
Dec 12 |
Eddie Shore hits Toronto Maple Leaf star Ace Bailey from behind, fracturing his skull and ending his career |
Dec 14 |
Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam |
Dec 15 |
Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15 |
Dec 16 |
Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht |
Dec 17 |
B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, Eng v India at Bombay |
Dec 17 |
Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118) |
Dec 17 |
Spain's 2nd government of Lerroux forms |
Dec 17 |
NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game |
Dec 19 |
Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized |
Dec 20 |
Bolivia & Paraguay sign cease fire |
Dec 21 |
Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania |
Dec 21 |
Fox Films signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract |
Dec 21 |
Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony of Great Britain |
Dec 23 |
Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251 |
Dec 23 |
Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death |
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 |
Bradman scores 187* NSW v Victoria, 294 mins, 13 fours |
Dec 26 |
US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere |
Dec 26 |
FM radio is patented. |
Dec 29 |
Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin 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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