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- Former President Calvin Coolidge dies at age 60
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- Michigan governor William Comstock orders all banks in the state to close for eight days
- Joe Zangara attempts to assassinate FDR in Miami, but instead kills Chicago mayor Anton Cermak and wounds three others
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- First Inauguration of FDR
- FDR's first fireside chat
- Begin of Hundred Days Legislative Session
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- After over 15 years of Prohibition, beer is legal once again
- After first appeal, "Scottsboro Boy" Heywood Patterson found guilty of rape for second time
- Senate passes bill limiting 5 day work week and six hour day in an attempt to force employers to hire more workers
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- Creation of Tennessee Valley Authority for the industrial development of a 640,000 sq. mi. watershed
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- Chicago World's Fair--"A Century of Progress"--opens
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- Birth of National Recovery Administration
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- Kansas City jury sentences Walter McGee to hang for kidnapping Mary McElray, part of a nationwide wave of kidnappings
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- Guards use tear gas and bullets to quell riot during a Pennsylvania coal mine strike
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- Alcatraz becomes home to nation's worst criminals
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- After second appeal, "Scottsboro Boy" Heywood Patterson found for a third time to be guilty of raping Victoria Price
- End of Prohibition
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- Sir Malcolm Campbell sets land speed record of 272.1 m.p.h. on the beach at Daytona, FL
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- Navy dirigible U.S.S Akron crashes, placing the future of the program in doubt
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- Lt. Cmdr. Francis Monroe Hawks breaks his own record for with a non-stop cross-country flight of 13.5 hours, aided by his autopilot "Mr. Zilch"
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- Wiley Post completes solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes with the aid of such technology as automatic pilot
- A fleet of Italian seaplanes touches down on Lake Michigan as part of the Chicago Exposition
- Maud Slye of the University of Chicago announces the likliehood that susceptibility to cancer is inheritable
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- Dictograph Products and Sonotone each announce improvements in marketable hearing aids
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- Plant pathologists determine cause of Dutch Elm Disease
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- Marconi announces discovery of micro-waves
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- Princeton and Michigan share the national college football championship
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- She Done Him Wrong--"Why don't you come up some time and see me?"
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- Fay Wray co-stars with a giant mechanical ape in King Kong
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- Louis Meyer wins Indianapolis 500--drivers Mark Billman and Lester Spangler die in crash
- The Three Little Pigs--a morality play for the age
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- She Done Him Wrong, starring Mae West
- 42nd Street, starring Julian Marsh
- King Kong, starring Fay Wray
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- The Three Little Pigs, produced by Walt Disney
- Gold Diggers of 1933, starring Joan Blondell
- Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney
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Songs Released in 1933 |
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- "Lazybones," by Ted Lewis
- "Can You Take It," by Fletcher Henderson
- "Love Is The Sweetest Thing," by Ray Noble
- "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?," by Don Bestor
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- New York Giants (NL) defeat the Washington Senators (AL) in five games to win 30th World Series
- Footlight Parade features choreography by Busby Berkeley
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Books Released in 1933
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- God's Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell
- A Draft Of XXX Cantos, by Ezra Pound
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
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- A Green Bough, by William Faulkner
- The Shape Of Things To Come, by H. G. Wells
- Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- Manhattan Federal Judge John M. Woolsey rules in favor of author James Joyce in case of "The U.S. v. One Book Entitled Ulysses," a decisive victory for freedom of publishing that narrows the definition of pornography
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- Adolph Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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- Reports of Nazi mistreatment of Jews include dismissals from government and business positions, shop boycotts, raiding of homes, and beatings
- The Reichstag, the seat of German government, burns in Berlin
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- Gerardo Machado forced to step down as president of Cuba during "August Revolution"
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- The United States and the U.S.S.R. establish diplomatic relations for the first time
- Cannonization of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
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