1933

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1900s  1910s  1920s  – 1930s –  1940s  1950s  1960s
Years:	1930 1931 1932 – 1933 – 1934 1935 1936

Events

• January 28 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali has chosen the name Pakistan in his pamphlet
• January 30 – Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
• 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
• May 8 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a 21 day fast in protest for India.
• September 26 – A Hurricane in Tampico, Mexico kills 1.000 people.
• December 5 – Prohibition ends
• The Toyota company starts in Japan.

Births

• February 18 – Yoko Ono, singer, artist, wife of John Lennon
• March 10 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet (d. 2004)
• April 7 – Wayne Rogers, actor
• August 18 – Roman Polanski, movie director
• August 25 – Tom Skerritt, actor
• October 10 – Jay Sebring, hairstylist
• December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
• December 23 – Akihito, Emperor of Japan

Deaths

• January 31 – John Galsworthy, British writer
• August 15 – Christie Fuller, Australia singer

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physics – Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
• Medicine – Thomas Hunt Morgan
• Literature – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer
• Peace – 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