Title: 1933 Content: 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. == Events == * January 28 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali chose the name Pakistan in his pamphlet for a Muslim state in northwest India * January 30 – Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg * February 17 – Newsweek magazine is published for the first time in the United States * March 3 ** Earthquake in Japan kills 3.000 people ** Ching Yun University was established * March 10 – Earthquake in Long Beach, California * March 20 – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed * April 2 - In a cricket test match against New Zealand, England batsman Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs. * May 8 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest for India * July 6 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago * July 8 - The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town * August 2 - Opening of the Stalin White Sea- Baltic Sea Canal, connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the Baltic * September 26 – Hurricane in Tampico, Mexico kills 1.000 people * October 7 - Air France is formed * December 5 – Prohibition ends in the United States * The Toyota company starts in Japan == Births == === January === * January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009) === February === * February 13 – Paul Biya President of Cameroon * February 13 – Kim Novak, American actress * February 18 – Yoko Ono, Japanese singer, artist, wife of John Lennon * February 18 – Bobby Robson, English association football player and manager (d. 2009) === March === * March 10 – Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet (d. 2004) * March 13 – Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (d. 1991) * March 19 – Teresa Berganza, Spanish mezzo-soprano (d. 2022) * March 22 – Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018) === April === * April 9 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021) * April 18 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995) === May === * May 3 – James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Feel Good) (d. 2006) * May 3 – Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021) === June === * June 6 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) * June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016) * June 15 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, President of Iran (d. 1981) === July === * July 2 – Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017) * July 16 – John Baddeley, British diplomat * July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta === August === * August 18 – Roman Polanski, Polish movie director === September === * September 29 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (d. 1986) === October === * October 21 – Paco Gento, Spanish footballer (d. 2022) === November === * November 3 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate * November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Hong Kong-British-American physicist (d. 2018) * November 12 – Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq (d. 2017) === December === * December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. Filipino politician (d. 2019) * December 23 – Akihito, Emperor of Japan == Deaths == thumb|Henri Duparc * January 5 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872) * January 31 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) * February 12 – Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848) * March 1 - Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900) * April 17 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876) * May 2 - Leonard Huxley, English writer (b. 1860) * July 3 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, 18th President of Argentina (b. 1852) * August 15 – Christie Fuller, Australia singer * September 8 - Faisal I of Iraq, king of Iraq * October 16 - Ismael Montes, 26th President of Bolivia (b. 1861) * November 3 - Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853) * December 16 - Robert W. Chambers, American writer (b. 1865) == Nobel Prizes == * Nobel Prize in Physics won by Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, English physicist * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist * Nobel Prize in Literature won by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer * Nobel Peace Prize won by Sir Norman Angell, British lecturer, writer, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party == Movies released == * 42nd Street * Alice in Wonderland * Duck Soup * Gold Diggers of 1933 * King Kong * Little Women, starring Kathrine Hepburn * The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton * The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey * Queen Christina, starring Greta Garbo * Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill * Secrets, starring Mary Pickford * She Done Him Wrong, starring Cary Grant amd Mae West * The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack * Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy * State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres == Hit songs == * "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" by Eddy Duchin * "Just An Echo In the Valley" by Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee * "Lazy Bones" by Ted Lewis Band; also version by Don Redman's band * "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" by Ben Bernie * "Night and Day" by Eddy Duchin * "Shadow Waltz" by Bing Crosby * "Stormy Weather" by Ethel Waters * "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" by Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians