1933
1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
February
March
March 1 - Kyriakos Varvaressos becomes Deputy Governor to the Bank of Greece
March 3 - Mount Rushmore is dedicated.
March 4 - American President Herbert Clark Hoover is succeeded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt , who in reference to the Great Depression , gives his "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" inauguration speech.
March 4 Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor , first female member of the United States Cabinet .
March 5 - Great Depression : President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ended on March 13 ).
March 5 - in German elections, National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes
March 9 - Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
March 10 - Earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 117 people.
March 12 - Great Depression : Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States . This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats ".
March 20 - Dachau , the first Nazi concentration camp , is completed - opened March 22
March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act , making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany .
March 27 - Japan leaves the League of Nations
March 31 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
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Births
January
January 6 - Emil Steinberger , cabaretist
January 6 - Oleg Makarov , cosmonaut (d. 2003 )
January 8 - Charles Osgood , journalist, commentator
January 14 - Stan Brakhage , filmmaker (d. 2003 )
January 16 - Susan Sontag , author (d. 2004 )
January 17 - Dalida , French singer
January 18 - John Boorman , director
January 23 - Chita Rivera , actress, dancer
January 25 - Corazon Aquino , President of the Philippines
February
February 8 - Elly Ameling , soprano
February 12 - Costa-Gavras , director, writer
February 13 - Kim Novak , actress
February 18 - Yoko Ono , singer, artist, wife of John Lennon
February 21 - Nina Simone , singer
February 22 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent .
February 26 - Godfrey Cambridge , actor (d. 1976 )
February 27 - Raymond Berry , American football player
March
April
May
May 3 - James Brown , musician
May 7 - Johnny Unitas , American football star (d. 2002 )
May 10 - Barbara Taylor Bradford , writer
May 11 - Louis Farrakhan , Black Muslim leader
May 20 - Danny Aiello , American actor
May 21 - Maurice André , trumpet
May 23 - Joan Collins , actress
May 29 - Marc Carbonneau , taxi driver and FLQ terrorist
May 29 - Helmuth Rilling , German conductor
May 29 - Edward Whittemore , American writer and CIA agent
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