1933
December 16, 2011
Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg
The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States
The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City
The Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the ‘holiday’ ends on March 13)
The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany
Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes
The Nazi Party in Germany introduces a law to legalize eugenic sterilization
Gandhi is sentenced to prison in India
Air France begins operations with 250 planes
Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany; he accepts a position at Princeton University
New Deal: – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed
FM radio is patented
The US 21st Amendment officially goes into effect, alcohol becomes legal in the US
The first doughnut store under the Krispy Kreme name opens in Nashville, Tennessee
Turkey concludes a treaty with the creditors of the former Ottoman Empire to schedule the payments in Paris. (Turkey succeeds in clearing all the debt in less than twenty years.)
May 23 – Joan Collins, English actress is born
May 24 – Christina G L Lyons, later Campbell, my Grandmother, is born
