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  • Eastern end of the Great Wall of China
    1933
    Second Sino-Japanese War

    The Japanese attacked the Great Wall region

    Eastern end of the Great Wall of China
    1933

    In 1933, the Japanese attacked the Great Wall region. The Tanggu Truce established in its aftermath, gave Japan control of Jehol province as well as a demilitarized zone between the Great Wall and Beiping-Tianjin region. Japan aimed to create another buffer zone between Manchukuo and the Chinese Nationalist government in Nanjing.




  • Troyes, France
    1933
    Lacoste

    Founding Lacoste

    Troyes, France
    1933

    René Lacoste founded La Chemise Lacoste in 1933 with André Gillier, the owner and president of the largest French knitwear manufacturing firm at the time.




  • Berlin, Germany
    Jan, 1933
    Martin Bormann

    The Machtergreifung (NSDAP Seizure of Power)

    Berlin, Germany
    Jan, 1933

    After the Machtergreifung (NSDAP seizure of power) in January 1933, the relief fund was repurposed to provide general accident and property insurance, so Bormann resigned from its administration.




  • Germany
    Sunday Jan 1, 1933
    Heinrich Himmler

    SS-Obergruppenführer

    Germany
    Sunday Jan 1, 1933

    Effective 1 January 1933, Hitler promoted Himmler to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, equal in rank to the senior SA commanders.




  • Germany
    1933
    Heinrich Himmler

    The Nazi Party Growth

    Germany
    1933

    The Nazi Party's rise to the power provided Himmler and the SS an unfettered opportunity to thrive. By 1933, the SS numbered 52,000 members. Strict membership requirements ensured that all members were of Hitler's Aryan Herrenvolk ("Aryan master race"). Applicants were vetted for Nordic qualities—in Himmler's words, "like a nursery gardener trying to reproduce a good old strain which has been adulterated and debased; we started from the principles of plant selection and then proceeded quite unashamedly to weed out the men whom we did not think we could use for the build-up of the SS." Few dared mention that by his own standards, Himmler did not meet his own ideals.




  • Moscow, Soviet Union
    Jan, 1933
    Ho Chi Minh

    The British quietly released him

    Moscow, Soviet Union
    Jan, 1933

    The British quietly released him in January 1933. He moved to the Soviet Union and in Moscow studied and taught at the Lenin Institute.




  • U.S.
    1933
    Rosa Parks

    Graduation

    U.S.
    1933

    Rosa took numerous jobs, ranging from domestic worker to hospital aide. At her husband's urging, she finished her high school studies in 1933, at a time when less than 7% of African Americans had a high-school diploma.


  • U.S.
    1933
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    The Rover

    U.S.
    1933

    In 1933, Hughes made a purchase of an unseen luxury steam yacht named the Rover, which was previously owned by British shipping magnate Lord Inchcape. "I have never seen the Rover but bought it on the blueprints, photographs and the reports of Lloyd's surveyors. My experience is that the English are the most honest race in the world." Hughes renamed the yacht Southern Cross and later sold her to Swedish entrepreneur Axel Wenner-Gren.


  • U.S.
    1933
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower graduated from the Army Industrial College

    U.S.
    1933

    Major Dwight D. Eisenhower graduated from the Army Industrial College (Washington, DC) in 1933 and later served on the faculty (it was later expanded to become the Industrial College of the Armed Services and is now known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy).


  • U.S.
    1933
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois resigned his job at The Crisis

    U.S.
    1933

    Du Bois did not have a good working relationship with Walter Francis White, president of the NAACP since 1931. That conflict, combined with the financial stresses of the Great Depression, precipitated a power struggle over The Crisis. Du Bois, concerned that his position as editor would be eliminated, resigned his job at The Crisis and accepted an academic position at Atlanta University in early 1933.


  • Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933
    Adolf Hitler

    New Cabinet

    Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933

    On 30 January 1933, the new cabinet was sworn in during a brief ceremony in Hindenburg's office. The NSDAP gained three posts: Hitler was named chancellor, Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring Minister of the Interior for Prussia.


  • Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933
    The Holocaust

    Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany

    Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933

    With the appointment in January 1933 of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi's seizure of power, German leaders proclaimed the rebirth of the Volksgemeinschaft ("people's community").


  • Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933
    Weimar Republic

    Hitler was appointed as Chancellor

    Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933

    Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor on the morning of 30 January 1933.


  • Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933
    World War II

    Hitler became the Chancellor

    Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933

    Adolf Hitler, after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow German government in 1923, he became the Chancellor in 30 January 1933.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Reich chancellor

    Berlin, Germany
    Monday Jan 30, 1933

    Support for the party continued to grow, but neither of these elections led to a majority government. In an effort to stabilize the country and improve economic conditions, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Reich chancellor on 30 January 1933. Goebbels was disappointed not to be given a post in Hitler's new cabinet. Bernhard Rust was appointed as Minister of Culture, the post that Goebbels was expecting to receive. Like other NSDAP officials, Goebbels had to deal with Hitler's leadership style of giving contradictory orders to his subordinates, while placing them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jan 30, 1933
    Winston Churchill

    Obsession

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jan 30, 1933

    After Hitler came to power on 30 January 1933, Churchill was quick to recognize the menace to the civilization of such a regime and expressed alarm that the British government had reduced air force spending and warned that Germany would soon overtake Britain in air force production.


  • Geneva, Switzerland
    Friday Feb 24, 1933
    World War II

    Japan withdrew from the League of Nations

    Geneva, Switzerland
    Friday Feb 24, 1933

    Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after being condemned for its incursion into Manchuria.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Monday Feb 27, 1933
    Adolf Hitler

    Reichstag building was set on fire

    Berlin, Germany
    Monday Feb 27, 1933

    On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building was set on fire.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Monday Feb 27, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    The Reichstag fire

    Berlin, Germany
    Monday Feb 27, 1933

    The NSDAP took advantage of the Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933, with Hindenburg passing the Reichstag Fire Decree the following day at Hitler's urging.


  • Munich, Germany
    Mar, 1933
    Heinrich Himmler

    Chief of the Munich Police

    Munich, Germany
    Mar, 1933

    In March 1933, Reich Governor of Bavaria Franz Ritter von Epp appointed Himmler chief of the Munich Police. Himmler appointed Heydrich commander of Department IV, the political police. Thereafter, Himmler and Heydrich took over the political police of state after state; soon only Prussia was controlled by Göring.


  • Dachau, Germany
    Mar, 1933
    Heinrich Himmler

    Himmler set up the first official concentration Camp

    Dachau, Germany
    Mar, 1933

    In March 1933, less than three months after the Nazis came to power, Himmler set up the first official concentration camp at Dachau.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Saturday Mar 4, 1933
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    A President

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Saturday Mar 4, 1933

    The presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Saturday Mar 4, 1933
    Great Depression

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as President

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Saturday Mar 4, 1933

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as President.


  • Germany
    Sunday Mar 5, 1933
    The Holocaust

    March 1933 Reichstag elections

    Germany
    Sunday Mar 5, 1933

    Before and after the March 1933 Reichstag elections, the Nazis intensified their campaign of violence against opponents, setting up concentration camps for extrajudicial imprisonment.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Sunday Mar 5, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    The defeat of the Nazis at the end of the Second World War

    Berlin, Germany
    Sunday Mar 5, 1933

    On 5 March, yet another Reichstag election took place, the last to be held before the defeat of the Nazis at the end of the Second World War. While the NSDAP increased their number of seats and percentage of the vote.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Tuesday Mar 14, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels appointed head of the newly created Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

    Berlin, Germany
    Tuesday Mar 14, 1933

    Goebbels finally received Hitler's appointment to the cabinet, officially becoming head of the newly created Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda on 14 March.


  • Paris, France
    1933
    Mona Lisa

    A detailed analysis in 1933

    Paris, France
    1933

    The Mona Lisa has survived for more than 500 years, and an international commission convened in 1952 noted that "the picture is in a remarkable state of preservation." It has never been fully restored, so the current condition is partly due to a variety of conservation treatments the painting has undergone. A detailed analysis in 1933 by Madame de Gironde revealed that earlier restorers had "acted with a great deal of restraint."


  • U.S.
    Monday Mar 20, 1933
    Great Depression

    Economy Act of 1933

    U.S.
    Monday Mar 20, 1933

    The controversial Economy Act of 1933 is signed into law, slashing $243 million in government salaries and pensions, and veterans' benefits. Despite the economic crisis, super majorities of American economists, policymakers, and the general public believed that the federal government needed to balance the budget and avoid deficit spending, to avoid putting further strain on the bond market which would negatively affect government borrowing costs, banks, corporations, and foreign investors. From 1929 to 1933, the total debt owed by the U.S. government rose from $16.9 billion to over $23 billion.


  • Potsdam, Germany
    Tuesday Mar 21, 1933
    Adolf Hitler

    New Reichstag

    Potsdam, Germany
    Tuesday Mar 21, 1933

    On 21 March 1933, the new Reichstag was constituted with an opening ceremony at the Garrison Church in Potsdam. This "Day of Potsdam" was held to demonstrate unity between the Nazi movement and the old Prussian elite and military. Hitler appeared in a morning coat and humbly greeted Hindenburg.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Tuesday Mar 21, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels organized Potsdam celebration

    Berlin, Germany
    Tuesday Mar 21, 1933

    Goebbels' first productions were staging the Day of Potsdam, a ceremonial passing of power from Hindenburg to Hitler, held in Potsdam on 21 March.


  • Germany
    Wednesday Mar 22, 1933
    The Holocaust

    Dachau opened

    Germany
    Wednesday Mar 22, 1933

    Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, opened on 22 March 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) became chancellor of Germany.


  • Germany
    Thursday Mar 23, 1933
    Adolf Hitler

    Reichstag assembled under turbulent circumstances

    Germany
    Thursday Mar 23, 1933

    On 23 March 1933, the Reichstag assembled at the Kroll Opera House under turbulent circumstances. Ranks of SA men served as guards inside the building, while large groups outside opposing the proposed legislation shouted slogans and threats towards the arriving members of parliament.


  • Germany
    Thursday Mar 23, 1933
    Weimar Republic

    Hitler proposed the Enabling Law to the Reichstag

    Germany
    Thursday Mar 23, 1933

    Enabling Act, law passed by the German Reichstag (Diet) in 1933 that enabled Adolf Hitler to assume dictatorial powers.


  • U.S.
    Mar, 1933
    Great Depression

    Over $1.1 billion in hoarded cash was deposited into the banking system

    U.S.
    Mar, 1933

    By the end of March, over $1.1 billion in hoarded cash was deposited into the banking system.


  • U.S.
    Friday Mar 31, 1933
    Great Depression

    Civilian Conservation Corps is created

    U.S.
    Friday Mar 31, 1933

    The Civilian Conservation Corps, a public works relief program, is created. It would last until 1942 and is an icon of the New Deal programs.


  • Germany
    Saturday Apr 1, 1933
    The Holocaust

    Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses

    Germany
    Saturday Apr 1, 1933

    On 1 April 1933, there was a boycott of Jewish businesses.


  • Germany
    Saturday Apr 1, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels composed the text of the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses

    Germany
    Saturday Apr 1, 1933

    He composed the text of Hitler's decree authorizing the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses, held on 1 April.


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Apr 5, 1933
    Great Depression

    Executive Order 6102 of President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued

    U.S.
    Wednesday Apr 5, 1933

    Executive Order 6102 of President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued, forbidding hoarding of gold coin, bullion, and certificates, effective from May 1, 1933.


  • Germany
    Thursday Apr 6, 1933
    The Holocaust

    Jewish businesses closed

    Germany
    Thursday Apr 6, 1933

    Jewish businesses were targeted for closure or "Aryanization", the forcible sale to Germans; of the approximately 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses in Germany in 1933.


  • Germany
    Friday Apr 7, 1933
    The Holocaust

    Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed

    Germany
    Friday Apr 7, 1933

    On 7 April 1933, the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed, which excluded Jews and other "non-Aryans" from the civil service. Jews were disbarred from practicing law, being editors or proprietors of newspapers, joining the Journalists' Association, or owning farms.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Apr 9, 1933
    Great Depression

    Emergency Banking Act was enacted

    U.S.
    Sunday Apr 9, 1933

    The Emergency Banking Act was enacted, which enabled a restructuring of the banking system.


  • U.S.
    1933
    Anna May Wong

    "I Protest"

    U.S.
    1933

    Wong also became more outspoken in her advocacy for Chinese American causes and for better film roles. In a 1933 interview for Film Weekly entitled "I Protest", Wong criticized the negative stereotyping in Daughter of the Dragon, saying, "Why is it that the screen Chinese is always the villain? And so crude a villain – murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass! We are not like that. How could we be, with a civilization that is so many times older than the West?".


  • Germany
    1933
    Heinrich Himmler

    Prussian secret police force

    Germany
    1933

    Göring had created a Prussian secret police force, the Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo in 1933, and appointed Rudolf Diels as its head. Göring, concerned that Diels was not ruthless enough to use the Gestapo effectively to counteract the power of the SA.


  • Germany
    Monday May 1, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels converted the 1 May holiday from a celebration of workers' rights into a day celebrating the NSDAP

    Germany
    Monday May 1, 1933

    Goebbels converted the 1 May holiday from a celebration of workers' rights (observed as such especially by the communists) into a day celebrating the NSDAP.


  • Germany
    Tuesday May 2, 1933
    Adolf Hitler

    All trade unions dissolve

    Germany
    Tuesday May 2, 1933

    On 2 May 1933 all trade unions were forced to dissolve and their leaders were arrested. Some were sent to concentration camps.


  • India
    Monday May 8, 1933
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    21-day fast of self-purification

    India
    Monday May 8, 1933

    In 1932, Gandhi began a new campaign to improve the lives of the untouchables, whom he started referring to as Harijans or "the children of god". On 8 May 1933, Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement. This new campaign was not universally embraced within the Dalit community. Ambedkar and his allies felt Gandhi was being paternalistic and was undermining Dalit political rights.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Wednesday May 10, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels's speech to burning the Nazi book

    Berlin, Germany
    Wednesday May 10, 1933

    Less than two weeks later, he gave a speech at the Nazi book burning in Berlin on 10 May.


  • U.S.
    Friday May 12, 1933
    Great Depression

    Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted

    U.S.
    Friday May 12, 1933

    The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted, designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.


  • U.S.
    Saturday May 27, 1933
    Great Depression

    Securities Act of 1933 is enacted

    U.S.
    Saturday May 27, 1933

    The Securities Act of 1933 is enacted, requiring the registration of all sales and purchases of financial securities, as well as the disclosure of critical financial information about the firms involved. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was established the following year, which helped combat insider trading and reducing transaction risk.


  • Tanggu District, Tianjin, China
    Wednesday May 31, 1933
    World War II

    Tanggu Truce

    Tanggu District, Tianjin, China
    Wednesday May 31, 1933

    The two nations then fought several battles, in Shanghai, Rehe and Hebei, until the Tanggu Truce was signed in 1933.


  • Dachau, Bavaria, Germany
    Jun, 1933
    Heinrich Himmler

    Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke

    Dachau, Bavaria, Germany
    Jun, 1933

    Hitler had stated that he did not want it to be just another prison or detention camp. Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke, a convicted felon and ardent Nazi, to run the camp in June 1933. Eicke devised a system that was used as a model for future camps throughout Germany. Its features included isolation of victims from the outside world, elaborate roll calls and work details, the use of force and executions to exact obedience, and a strict disciplinary code for the guards. Uniforms were issued for prisoners and guards alike; the guards' uniforms had a special Totenkopf insignia on their collars.


  • Germany
    Jun, 1933
    Heinrich Himmler

    Reichsleiter (Ranks after Ranks)

    Germany
    Jun, 1933

    On 2 June Himmler, along with the heads of the other two Nazi paramilitary organizations, the SA and the Hitler Youth, was named a Reichsleiter, the second-highest political rank in the Nazi Party.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Friday Jun 2, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels was appointed the second-highest political rank in the Nazi Party

    Berlin, Germany
    Friday Jun 2, 1933

    On 2 June 1933, Hitler appointed Goebbels a Reichsleiter, the second-highest political rank in the Nazi Party.


  • Germany
    Jun, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    The NSDAP controlled of the organizations except for the army and the churches

    Germany
    Jun, 1933

    By June 1933, virtually the only organizations not in the control of the NSDAP were the army and the churches.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Jun, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    The Reich Film Chamber was created

    Berlin, Germany
    Jun, 1933

    The Reich Film Chamber, which all members of the film industry were required to join, was created in June 1933.


  • Germany
    Thursday Jun 29, 1933
    Adolf Hitler

    Other parties had been intimidated into disbanding

    Germany
    Thursday Jun 29, 1933

    By the end of June, the other parties had been intimidated into disbanding. This included the Nazis' nominal coalition partner, the DNVP; with the SA's help, Hitler forced its leader, Hugenberg, to resign on 29 June.


  • Eccles Building, Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jul, 1933
    Great Depression

    Federal Reserve industrial production index rebounds to 85.5

    Eccles Building, Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jul, 1933

    Federal Reserve industrial production index rebounds to 85.5, a 57% increase over the 54.3 recorded in March 1933.


  • Germany
    Saturday Jul 1, 1933
    Martin Bormann

    The Chief of Staff In The Office of Rudolf Hess

    Germany
    Saturday Jul 1, 1933

    Bormann applied for a transfer and was accepted as chief of staff in the office of Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Führer, on 1 July 1933.


  • Germany
    Tuesday Jul 4, 1933
    Martin Bormann

    The Personal Secretary to Rudolf Hess

    Germany
    Tuesday Jul 4, 1933

    Bormann served as personal secretary to Hess from 4 July 1933 until May 1941.


  • Germany
    Friday Jul 14, 1933
    Adolf Hitler

    The Only legal political party in Germany

    Germany
    Friday Jul 14, 1933

    On 14 July 1933, the NSDAP was declared the only legal political party in Germany.


  • Germany
    Friday Jul 14, 1933
    The Holocaust

    Sterilization Law

    Germany
    Friday Jul 14, 1933

    On 14 July 1933, the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses), the Sterilization Law, was passed.


  • New York, U.S.
    1933
    IBM

    IBM

    New York, U.S.
    1933

    By 1933 most of the subsidiaries had been merged into one company, IBM.


  • Madrid, Spain
    1933
    Severo Ochoa

    Returning to Madrid

    Madrid, Spain
    1933

    In 1933 the Ochoas returned to Madrid where he began to study glycolysis in heart muscle.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    1933
    Yasunari Kawabata

    The Protest

    Tokyo, Japan
    1933

    In 1933, Kawabata protested publicly against the arrest, torture, and death of the young leftist writer Takiji Kobayashi in Tokyo by the Tokkō special political police.


  • Germany
    Oct, 1933
    Adolf Hitler

    Withdrew from the League of Nations

    Germany
    Oct, 1933

    Germany withdrew from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference in October 1933.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Wednesday Oct 4, 1933
    Joseph Goebbels

    The Nazi Party's control of the popular press

    Berlin, Germany
    Wednesday Oct 4, 1933

    On 4 October 1933 the Schriftleitergesetz (Editor's Law), which became the cornerstone of the Nazi Party's control of the popular press.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Tuesday Oct 10, 1933
    Martin Bormann

    Hitler named Bormann Reichsleiter

    Berlin, Germany
    Tuesday Oct 10, 1933

    On 10 October 1933 Hitler named Bormann Reichsleiter (national leader – the highest party rank) of the NSDAP.


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 8, 1933
    Great Depression

    Civil Works Administration is created

    U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 8, 1933

    The Civil Works Administration is created, which would employ over 4 million people and distribute over $400 million in funds for work programs through its end on March 31, 1934, when it would be replaced by the more permanent Works Progress Administration.


  • Spain
    Sunday Nov 19, 1933
    Spanish Civil War

    1933 Spanish general election

    Spain
    Sunday Nov 19, 1933

    In 1933, the parties of the right won the general elections, largely due to the anarchists' abstention from the vote, increased right-wing resentment of the incumbent government caused by a controversial decree implementing land reform, the Casas Viejas incident, and the formation of a right-wing alliance, Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups (CEDA). Another factor was the recent enfranchisement of women, most of whom voted for centre-right parties.


  • Spain
    Nov, 1933
    Spanish Civil War

    Black two years

    Spain
    Nov, 1933

    Events in the period after November 1933, called the "black two years", seemed to make a civil war more likely. Alejandro Lerroux of the Radical Republican Party (RRP) formed a government, reversing changes made by the previous administration and granting amnesty to the collaborators of the unsuccessful uprising by General José Sanjurjo in August 1932.


  • Germany
    Sunday Dec 3, 1933
    Weimar Republic

    Von Schleicher's government took over after the resignation of Franz von Papen

    Germany
    Sunday Dec 3, 1933

    The Von Schleicher Cabinet de jure formed the government of Weimar Germany between 3 December 1932 and 28 January 1933 upon the resignation of Franz von Papen


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 5, 1933
    Great Depression

    Prohibition is repealed at the national level

    U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 5, 1933

    Prohibition is repealed at the national level. 18 states continue with state-level prohibition. The end of Prohibition hurts organized crime, allows legal employment in alcoholic drink production, and increases state tax revenues.


  • Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    1933
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip was sent to Schule Schloss Salem

    Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    1933

    In 1933, Philip was sent to Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, which had the "advantage of saving school fees" because it was owned by the family of his brother-in-law, Berthold, Margrave of Baden.


  • China
    1933
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1933 Diexi Landslides

    China
    1933

    1933 Diexi landslides; triggered by the 1933 Diexi earthquake in China. This earthquake destroyed the town of Diexi and surrounding villages, and caused many landslides, and killed about 9,000 people. The old town of Diexi sank into the landslide dam-created Diexi Lake.


  • Washington, D.C., U.S.
    1933
    Jimmy Hoffa

    75,000 Members

    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    1933

    The Teamsters union had 75,000 members in 1933.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Dec 21, 1933
    The Holocaust

    "400,000 Germans to be sterilized"

    U.S.
    Thursday Dec 21, 1933

    The New York Times reported on 21 December that year: "400,000 Germans to be sterilized". There were 84,525 applications from doctors in the first year. The courts reached a decision in 64,499 of those cases; 56,244 were in favor of sterilization. Estimates for the number of involuntary sterilizations during the whole of the Third Reich range from 300,000 to 400,000.


  • Italy
    Sunday Dec 24, 1933
    Mother's Day

    Mother's Day (Italy)

    Italy
    Sunday Dec 24, 1933

    Mother's Day in Italy was celebrated for the first time on 24 December 1933 as the "Day of the mother and the child" (Giornata della madre e del fanciullo).


  • U.S.
    1933
    Great Depression

    The 1933 healing up

    U.S.
    1933

    The inflation rate turns positive, at 1% annually. Quarterly GDP growth turns positive by summer, but overall annual rate is -1.3% growth. Unemployment peaks at 25%. 2 million are homeless. Industrial production is half of what it was in 1929. US nominal GDP bottoms out at $57 billion (down from $105 billion in 1929).


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