The year in history
1933
Someone born in 1933 turns 93 in 2026
1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1933rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 933rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1930s decade.
What happened in 1933
Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
The King and Country debate: The Oxford Union student debating society in England passes a resolution stating, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and country."
1933 Sanriku earthquake: A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit HonshΕ«, Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people.
Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler effectively the dictator of Germany.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark, and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. Norway submits to the decision.
The Stahlhelm veterans' organization joins the Nazi party in Germany.
The Nazi Party in Germany introduces a law to legalize eugenic sterilization.
Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany.
The International Left Opposition (ILO) is renamed the International Communist League (ICL).
Alejandro Lerroux forms a new government in Spain.
Scientist Albert Einstein arrives from Europe in the United States, where he settles permanently as a refugee from Nazi Germany and takes up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
The first NFL Championship game in American football is played. The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23β21.
Famous people born in 1933
Joe Orton
English playwright (d. 1967)
January 1 β
Shari Lewis
American ventriloquist (d. 1998)
January 17 β
Archduke Joseph ΓrpΓ‘d of Austria
Austro-Hungarian royal (d. 2017)
February 8 β
Frank Moores
second Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador (d. 2005)
February 18 β
JesΓΊs Gil
Spanish right-wing politician, construction businessman and football team owner (d. 2004)
March 12 β
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist and Nobel laureate
April 1 β
Elizabeth Montgomery
American actress (Bewitched) (d. 1995)
April 15 β
James Brown
African-American soul musician (d. 2006)
May 3 β
Chen Jingrun
Chinese mathematician (d. 1996)
May 22 β
Gene Wilder
American actor (d. 2016)
June 11 β
Sam Jones
American basketball player (d. 2021)
June 24 β
Lidy Stoppelman
Dutch figure skater
July 3 β
John Hopfield
American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
July 15 β
Robert Fuller
American actor and rancher
July 29 β
Richard R. Ernst
Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
August 14 β
Guillermo Bredeston
Argentine actor (d. 2018)
August 24 β
Hillevi Rombin
Swedish athlete, model and Miss Universe 1955 (d. 1996)
September 14 β
Raffaele Farina
Italian cardinal, archivist of the Holy Roman Church
September 24 β
Michael Parenti
American political scientist (d. 2026)
September 30 β
Dom Geraldo Majella
Brazilian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 2023)
October 19 β
Michael Dukakis
American politician, former governor of Massachusetts, and 1988 presidential candidate
November 3 β
Larry King
American Hall of Fame broadcaster (Larry King Live, Larry King Now, Politicking with Larry King) (d. 2021)
November 19 β
Lou Rawls
American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor and record producer (d. 2006)
December 1 β
Eva Wilma
Brazilian actress (d. 2021)
December 14 β