1933

**1933** (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events 
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* January 28 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali chooses the name Pakistan in his pamphlet for a Muslim country in northwest India
* January 30 – Adolf Hitler is 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 4 – Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as US President
* March 10 – Earthquake in Long Beach, California
* March 20 – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed 
* April 2 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago
* July 8 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Opening of the Stalin White Sea&ndash;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 &ndash; Air France is formed
* December 5 – Prohibition ends in the United States
* The Toyota company starts in Japan

## Births 
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* January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)

### February 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* April 9 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021)
* April 18 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)

### May 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* August 18 – Roman Polanski, Polish movie director

### September 
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* September 29 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (d. 1986)

### October 
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* October 21 – Paco Gento, Spanish footballer (d. 2022)

### November 
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* 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 
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* December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. Filipino politician (d. 2019)
* December 23 – Akihito, Emperor of Japan

## Deaths 
* January 5 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
* April 17 &ndash; Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876)
* May 2 &ndash; Leonard Huxley, English writer (b. 1860)
* July 3 &ndash; Hipólito Yrigoyen, 18th President of Argentina (b. 1852)
* August 15 – Christie Fuller, Australia singer
* September 8 &ndash; Faisal I of Iraq, king of Iraq
* October 2 - Elizabeth Thompson, British painter
* October 16 &ndash; Ismael Montes, 26th President of Bolivia (b. 1861)
* November 3 &ndash; Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853)
* December 16 &ndash; 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 
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* *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

## References