1933
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 - 1933 - 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
Events:
- Worst year of the the Great Depression
- January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- January 29 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany
- January 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
- May - Karl Jansky announces the detection of radio waves from the centre of the galaxy.
- Change of US presidency from Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
- USA Federal government legalizes alcohol, outlaws marijuana.
- August 14 - Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres.
- December 26 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan
- December 26 - FM radio is patented
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1933 in film
- Cavalcade
- 42nd Street
- King Kong
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) once again expresses interest in the Wizard of Oz books for a series of animated cartoons, but they once again failed to make a deal with creator Frank J. Baum
- 1933 in literature
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
- Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
- James Joyce's Ulysses allowed into U.S.
- 1933 in television
- January 23 - W9XAL in Kansas City begins broadcasting.
- January 24 - John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast on KMBC radio.
- February 2 - CBS suspends its television broadcasts
Births
- January 6 - Emil Steinberger, cabaretist
- January 8 - Charles Osgood, journalist, commentator
- January 16 - Susan Sontag, author
- January 17 - Dalida, French singer
- January 18 - John Boorman, director
- January 23 - Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
- January 25 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Phillipines
- January 28 - Susan Sontag, novelist, philosopher, essayist, director, playwright
- May 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor
- November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
Deaths
- January 5 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States
- February 15 - Pat Sullivan, director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
- April 3 - Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, in the crash of the USS Akron
- December 25 - Francesc Macià, President of Generalitat, Autonomous government of Catalonia
- Blind Blake, influential blues singer