In history, year 1933 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1933.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 15 january | A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux. |
| 28 january | Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet entitled 'Now or Never' in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he termed 'Pakstan'. |
| 25 february | USS Ranger, the first ship of the United States Navyconstructed as an aircraft carrier, was launched. |
| 27 february | The Reichstag building in Berlin, the assembly location of the German Parliament, was set on fire, a pivotal event in theestablishment of the Nazi regime in Germany. |
| 02 march | The film King Kong made its premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. |
| 04 march | Frances Perkins was appointed United States Secretary of Labor,making her the first female member of the Cabinet. |
| 22 march | The Holocaust-The construction of the first Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was completed. |
| 28 march | A passenger board the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool set a fire on board, causing it to break apart in mid-air and crash. |
| 24 april | Nazi Germany began its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg. |
| 26 april | The Gestapo, the official secret police force in Nazi Germany, was established. |
| 08 may | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi started a 21-day fast of self purification on May 8, 1933. Harijan movement was inaugurated by him on the same day to improve the lives of untouchables. Gandhi named the Dalits of Hindu community as Harijan, the children of god but his campaign was condemned by Dalit Leader B.R. Ambedkar,the Architect of Indian Constitution post independence. |
| 10 may | On May 10, 1933 Paraguay declared war on Bolivia. This conflict is also known as Chaco war between the two countries to take control over northern part of Gran Chaco of South America, assumed to be rich in oil. |
| 17 may | Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling was founded on May 17, 1933 by Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort. It made a huge impact on Norwegian politics despite the fact that it never achieved more than 2.5% of the votes and finally dissolved in 1945. |
| 29 may | Gandhi ends his 21-day fast, his second for the cause of the 'untouchables.' He was fighting for the rights of dalits or lower caste people of community who were considered as untouchables and were prohibited from entering in holy places. He coined the term Harijan for untouchables. |
| 17 june | The civil disobedience campaign ended. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is sometimes, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. |
| 14 july | With the enactment of the Law for the Prevention of Here ditarily Diseased Off spring, the Nazi Party began its eugenics program. |
| 22 july | Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly solo around the world,landing after a seven-day, nineteen-hour flight at Floyd Bennett Fieldin Brooklyn, New York City. |
| 07 august | An estimated 3,000 Assyrians were slaughtered by Iraqi troopsduring the Simele massacre in the Dahuk and Mosul districts. |
| 12 september | Hungarian-American physicist Leó Szilárd conceived of theidea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light inBloomsbury, London. |
| 13 september | Elizabeth McCombs became the first woman elected to theParliament of New Zealand. |
| 21 september | Salvador Lutteroth ran the first Empresa Mexicana de la LuchaLibre event in Mexico City, the world's oldest continuously operatingprofessional wrestling promotion. |
| 26 september | As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, hesupposedly shouted out, 'Don't shoot, G-Men ('government men')!', whichbecame a nickname for FBI agents. |
| 07 october | Five French airline companies merged to form Air France. |
| 10 october | In the first proven act of air sabotage in the history ofcommercial aviation, a United Airlines Boeing 247 exploded in mid-airnear Chesterton, Indiana, US, killing all seven people aboard. |
| 17 october | Dr. Albert Einstein and his wife flee to Princeton, New Jersey from Nazi Germany, where he intends to carry on with his scientific work at the Institute of Advanced Study. |
| 28 october | As the population affected by poverty owing to redundancy rises, a resultant increase in disease is also observed with TB, Diphtheria, scarlet fever etc. all on the rise. |
| 29 october | As the population affected by poverty owing to redundancy rises, a resultant increase in disease is also observed with TB, Diphtheria, scarlet fever etc. all on the rise. |
| 05 december | Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States Officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S.Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. |
| 02 May | In Germany, Hitler banned trade unions. From 1933 to 1945, Hitler was the ruler of Germany. |
| 22 May | World Trade Day was celebrated for the first time. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 November | Jeremy Brett / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 05 March | Walter Kasper / Cardinal / Germany |
| 08 July | Antonio Lamer / Politician / Canada |
| 11 June | Gene Wilder / Actor / United States of America |
| 12 July | Victor Poor / Engineer / United States of America |
| 13 October | Raynald Fréchette / Lawyer / Canada |
| 15 October | Nicky Barnes / Criminal / United States of America |
| 16 January | Susan Sontag / Novelist / United States of America |
| 17 February | Larry Jennings / Author / United States of America |
| 18 September | Mark di Suvero / Sculptor / United States of America |
| 20 August | George J. Mitchell / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 20 December | Olavi Salonen / Runner / Finland |
| 22 December | John Hartle / Motorcycle Racer / United Kingdom |
| 23 May | Joan Collins / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 23 March | Norman Bailey / Singer / United States of America |
| 23 December | Noella Leduc / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 25 October | Eugene Gordon Lee / Actor / United States of America |
| 27 January | Jerry Buss / Business Man / United States of America |
| 28 October | Garrincha / Footballer / Brazil |
| 31 January | Morton Mower / Inventor / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 18 May | H. D. Deve Gowda / Politician / India |
| 18 January | Jagdish Sharan Verma / Lawyer / India |
| 26 January | Anil Ganguly / Director / India |
| 08 May | Janeshwar Mishra / Politician / India |
| 26 March | Acharya Kuber Nath Rai / Writer / India |
| 04 April | Bapu Nadkarni / Cricketer / India |
| 18 January | Jagdish Sharan Verma / Judge / India |
| 03 November | Amartya Sen / Economist / India |
| 19 September | Sunith Francis Rodrigues / Soldier / India |
| 02 April | Jayaben Desai / Politician / India |
| 01 July | Abdul Hameed / Soldier / India |
| 18 May | H. D. Deve Gowda / Politician / India |
| 18 May | Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda / Politician / India |
| 03 November | Amartya Sen / Academic / India |
| 06 April | P.K. Nair / Author / India |
| 15 December | Bapu / Writer / India |
| 11 March | C. K. Jaffer Sharief / Politician / India |
| 08 September | Asha Bhosle / Singer / India |
| 06 August | A. G. Kripal Singh / Cricketer / India |
| 26 October | Sarekoppa Bangarappa / Politician / India |