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What Happened In March 1933 In History

Historical Events for March, 1933

  • 4th » Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
  • 4th » The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure Chancellor of Austria called Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an Austrofascism or authoritarian rule by decree.
  • 5th » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "Emergency Banking Act called bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
  • 9th » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
  • 10th » An 1933 Long Beach earthquake known as earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million in damage.
  • 12th » Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
  • 13th » Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President of the United States or President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
  • 15th » Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council of Austria e.g National Council from convening, starting the austrofascism called austrofascist dictatorship.
  • 20th » Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau Concentration Camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
  • 21st » Construction of Dachau concentration camp named Dachau, the first Nazi Germany e.g Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
  • 23rd » The 'Reichstag (Weimar Republic) named Reichstag' passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
  • 28th » The Imperial Airways biplane 'City of Liverpool' is believed to be the first airline lost to sabotage when a passenger 1933 Imperial Airways Dixmude crash or sets a fire on board.
  • 31st » The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1933

  • 1st » Gerry Bron, English record producer and manager (d. 2012)
  • 3rd » Margaret Fink, Australian film producer
  • 3rd » Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (d. 2013)
  • 3rd » Marco Antonio Muñiz, Mexican singer and actor
  • 3rd » Lee Radziwill, American actress and author
  • 4th » Ann Burton, Dutch singer (d. 1989)
  • 4th » John W. Mills, English sculptor
  • 4th » Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver
  • 5th » Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (d. 2005)
  • 5th » Kostas Linoxilakis, Greek footballer
  • 5th » Tommy Tucker (singer) e.g Tommy Tucker, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
  • 6th » Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
  • 6th » William Davis (journalist) e.g William Davis, German-English journalist and economist
  • 7th » Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (d. 1998)
  • 7th » Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (d. 2013)
  • 8th » Luca Ronconi, Italian actor and director
  • 8th » Evelyn Ay Sempier, American model, Miss America 1954 (d. 2008)
  • 9th » Mel Lastman, Canadian businessman and politician, 62nd Mayor of Toronto
  • 9th » Reinhard Lettmann, German bishop (d. 2013)
  • 9th » Lloyd Price, American singer-songwriter
  • 9th » David Weatherall, British physician and researcher
  • 10th » Ralph Emery, American television host
  • 12th » Barbara Feldon, American actress
  • 13th » Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (d. 2014)
  • 13th » Mike Stoller, American songwriter and producer
  • 13th » Gero von Wilpert, German author and academic (d. 2009)
  • 14th » Michael Caine, English actor and author
  • 14th » René Felber, Swiss politician
  • 14th » Quincy Jones, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
  • 15th » Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American lawyer and judge
  • 15th » Philippe de Broca, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
  • 16th » Keith Critchlow, English architect and academic, co-founded Temenos Academy
  • 16th » Sanford I. Weill, American banker, financier, and philanthropist
  • 17th » Myrlie Evers-Williams, American journalist and activist
  • 17th » Penelope Lively, Egyptian-English author
  • 17th » Sándor Rácz, Hungarian politician (d. 2013)
  • 18th » Unita Blackwell, American activist and politician
  • 19th » Norman King (Royal Navy officer) named Norman King, English admiral (d. 2013)
  • 19th » Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer
  • 19th » Philip Roth, American author
  • 19th » Renée Taylor, American actress and screenwriter
  • 19th » Richard Williams (animator) e.g Richard Williams, Canadian-English animator, director, and screenwriter
  • 20th » Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
  • 20th » George Altman, American baseball player
  • 20th » Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
  • 20th » Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (d. 1988)
  • 20th » Ian Walsh (rugby league) named Ian Walsh, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 2013)
  • 21st » John Hall (businessman) or John Hall, English businessman
  • 21st » Michael Heseltine, Welsh businessman and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • 22nd » Abulhassan Banisadr, Iranian politician, 1st President of Iran
  • 22nd » May Britt, Swedish-American actress
  • 22nd » Linden Chiles, American actor (d. 2013)
  • 23rd » Norman Bailey (bass-baritone) known as Norman Bailey, English-American opera singer
  • 23rd » Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic
  • 24th » William Smith (actor) or William Smith, American actor
  • 26th » Vine Deloria, Jr., American historian, author, and theologian (d. 2005)
  • 26th » Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (d. 1996)
  • 27th » Guido Bodrato, Italian politician
  • 27th » Robert Castel, French sociologist (d. 2013)
  • 27th » Vince Gibson, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
  • 27th » Michel Guérard, French chef and author
  • 27th » Hazel Henderson, English economist and activist
  • 27th » Don Lassetter, American baseball player
  • 27th » Gino Pivatelli, Italian footballer and coach
  • 27th » Le Van Hung, Vietnamese general (d. 1975)
  • 28th » Tete Montoliu, Spanish pianist (d. 1997)
  • 28th » Frank Murkowski, American politician, 8th Governor of Alaska
  • 29th » Jacques Brault, Canadian poet and academic
  • 30th » Luis Bacalov, Argentinian-Italian composer
  • 30th » Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
  • 30th » George Morfogen, American actor
  • 31st » Anita Carter, American singer-songwriter and bassist (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (d. 1999)
  • 31st » Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)

Famous Deaths for March 1933

  • 1st » Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
  • 6th » Anton Cermak, Czech-American politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
  • 14th » Balto, American sled dog (b. 1919)
  • 18th » Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (b. 1873)
  • 20th » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900)
  • 26th » Eddie Lang, American guitarist (b. 1902)

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