Today in History for March 1933

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 45 of 45

1st - Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
2nd - "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC
2nd - Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
3rd - German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
3rd - Mount Rushmore dedicated
3rd - NYC premiere of "King Kong"
4th - Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
4th - Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
4th - Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
4th - Noordwijk soccer team forms
4th - FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
4th - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
5th - FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
5th - Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
6th - FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday
6th - Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses," premieres in NYC
6th - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
7th - Game of "Monopoly" invented
9th - Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
9th - Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"
10th - Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif
10th - Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
12th - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
13th - Banks reopen
13th - Josef Goebbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
14th - Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
14th - Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
15th - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
16th - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
18th - Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
18th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
18th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
20th - Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed
21st - Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin
22nd - FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolph Hitler 23rd - Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers
23rd - Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
24th - Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
27th - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
27th - Japan leaves League of Nations
27th - Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
28th - German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler
31st - 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
31st - Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
31st - German Republic gives power to Hitler

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 58 of 58

1st - Istvan Lang, composer
1st - Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
1st - Myrlie Evers, politician/commissioner (LA Board of Public works)
3rd - Lee Radziwell Ross, NYC, princess (Jackie O's sister)
3rd - Marco Antonio Munoz, Mexico, spanish singer (Murmullos)
3rd - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor
4th - Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer
4th - John W Mills, British sculptor
5th - Norbert Linke, composer
6th - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer
6th - Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
6th - Kim Elgie, cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl)
6th - William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
6th - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
7th - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
8th - Johnny Dollar, singer
9th - Lloyd Price, Kenner La, singer (Just Because)
9th - William Francis McBeth, composer
9th - Mel Lastman, Canadian politician
9th - William McBeth, Ropesville, Texas, composer, (d. 2012)
10th - Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer
11th - Terry J Hatter Jr, US judge in California
13th - Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R-AK, 1981- )
13th - Mike Stoller, composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
Actor Michael Caine (14th) 14th - Michael Caine, [Maurice J Micklewhite], London, actor (Alfie)
14th - Quincy Jones Jr, Chicago Ill, composer/singer (We Are The World)
14th - René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
15th - Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer/jazz pianist (U of Wisconsin)
15th - Ronald Roseman, composer
16th - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
16th - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
18th - Unita Blackwell, 1st black mayor in Mississippi
19th - Philip Roth, Newark, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
19th - Renée Taylor, American actress
20th - David James Moore, educationalist
20th - Jacquez Guyonnet, composer
20th - George Altman, American baseball player
20th - Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
21st - John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
Composer & Singer Quincy Jones Jr (14th) 21st - Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense (1986)/MP
22nd - Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
22nd - Chris Duckworth, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1956-57)
22nd - Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
22nd - May Britt, Swedish actress
23rd - Geoffrey Leigh, CEO (Allied London Properties)
23rd - Monique van Vooren, Belgium, actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
23rd - Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman)
23rd - Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
24th - David Harries, composer
27th - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
27th - Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
27th - J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
28th - Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
29th - Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet
30th - Jean-Claude Brialy, Aumale Algeria, actor (Circle of Love, Cousins)
31st - Bob Simmons, Fulham England, stuntman (double for James Bond)
31st - Shirley Jones, Smithton Pa, actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry)
31st - Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 11 of 11

1st - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
4th - Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
6th - Anton J Cermak, US mayor of Chicago, murdered
14th - Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925
16th - Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
17th - Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies at 48
18th - Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60
20th - Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR
26th - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
27th - Lionel Palairet, cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies
29th - Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at 52