page_title: January 1933
section_title: January 7, 1933 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: January 1933 / January 7, 1933 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Lawrence Tibbett
context_page_description: The following events occurred in January 1933:
context_section_description: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin addressed the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party on the results of his first Five-Year Plan, reporting that Soviet industrial output had tripled (219% increase) while production in other countries dropped, as proof that the Soviet system was superior to capitalism.
  The radio show WWVA Jamboree, the second-oldest country music radio show in the United States (after Grand Ole Opry) made its initial broadcast from the WWVA radio station in Wheeling, West Virginia.
  An opera based on The Emperor Jones, Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play and composed by Louis Gruenberg, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, with baritone Lawrence Tibbett in the title role of a black escaped convict turned ruler. Tibbett, who was white, appeared in blackface, but several other cast members were African-Americans.
  Born: Anthony A. Martino, American entrepreneur who founded AAMCO Transmissions and the MAACO painting and collision repair franchises; in Philadelphia (d. 2008).
  Died: Bert Hinkler, 40, Australian aviator, after taking off from Heathrow Airport in an attempt to fly around the world. Hinkler's body and the wreckage of his airplane would be found on April 27 in the Apennine Mountains in Italy.
caption: Tibbett without makeup
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