What Happened In December 1933 In History

Historical Events for December, 1933

• 5th » Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the Eighteenth Ame
• 15th » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Eighteenth Amendment that Prohibition in the United States prohibited the sale, manufacture, an

Famous Birthdays on December in 1933

• 1st » Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
• 1st » Curro Romero, Spanish bullfighter
• 2nd » Peter Robin Harding, English marshal and pilot
• 2nd » Mike Larrabee, American sprinter (d. 2003)
• 2nd » K. Veeramani, Indian lawyer and academic
• 3rd » Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate
• 4th » Horst Buchholz, German actor (d. 2003)
• 6th » Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (d. 2010)
• 6th » Ioannis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician (d. 2012)
• 6th » Donald J. Kutyna, American general
• 7th » Krsto Papić, Croatian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 8th » Flip Wilson, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 9th » Ashleigh Brilliant, English-American author and illustrator
• 9th » Morton Downey, Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (d. 2001)
• 9th » Monique Miller, Canadian actress
• 9th » Orville Moody, American sergeant and golfer (d. 2008)
• 9th » Martin Puhvel, Estonian-Canadian philologist and academic
• 10th » Philip R. Craig, American author (d. 2007)
• 10th » Larry Morris, American football player (d. 2012)
• 10th » Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 10th » Angus Stirling, English historian
• 11th » Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines
• 13th » Doug Mohns, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2014)
• 15th » Bapu (film director) known as Bapu, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 15th » Tim Conway, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 15th » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (d. 2001)
• 18th » Lonnie Brooks, American singer and guitarist
• 19th » Kevan Gosper, Australian runner and politician
• 19th » Christopher Smout, Scottish historian and academic
• 19th » Cicely Tyson, American actress
• 20th » Jean Carnahan, American politician
• 20th » Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist
• 21st » Denis E. Dillon, American politician (d. 2010)
• 21st » Robert Worcester, American businessman, founder of MORI
• 22nd » John Hartle, English motorcycle racer (d. 1968)
• 23rd » Akihito, Japanese emperor
• 23rd » Noella Leduc, American baseball player (d. 2014)
• 26th » Ugly Dave Gray, English-Australian actor
• 26th » Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and voice actor
• 28th » John Y. Brown, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky
• 29th » Samuel Brittan, English journalist and author
• 31st » Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005)

Famous Deaths for December 1933

• 4th » Stefan George, German-Swiss poet (b. 1868)
• 17th » 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
• 19th » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (b. 1857)
• 21st » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 25th » Francesc Macià i Llussà, Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (b. 1859)
• 26th » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 26th » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)
• 26th » Eduard Vilde, Estonian author and diplomat (b. 1865)

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