37 events found for 1933
In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring…
Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world…
Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in…
The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day…
Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn;…
Christie Pits riot takes place in Toronto, Ontario.
The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of…
The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933…
The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
Nazi Germany and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the Haavara Agreement. The agreement was a major factor in…
The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with…
Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil…
Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.