News and Events of 1933
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World Events
World Statistics
population by decadeNobel Peace Prize:
Sir Norman Angell (UK)
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- Reichstag fire in Berlin; Nazi terror begins (Feb. 27).
- Hitler becomes German chancellor (Jan. 30).
- Germany and Japan withdraw from League of Nations.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Franklin D RooseveltVice President: John N. Garner
Population: 125,578,763
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- Giuseppe Zangara executed for attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt in which Chicago Mayor Cermak is fatally shot. Background: Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865
- Roosevelt inaugurated (“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”); launches New Deal.
- Prohibition
repealed. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
- Glass-Steagall Act bans banks from dealing in stocks and bonds.
Economics
Federal spending: $4.60 billionConsumer Price Index: 13
Unemployment: 25.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
World Series
NY Giants d. Washington (4-1)Stanley Cup
NY Rangers d. Toronto (3-1)Wimbledon
Women: Helen Moody d. D. Round (6-4 6-8 6-3)Men: Jack Crawford d. E. Vines (4-6 11-9 6-2 2-6 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Brokers TipNCAA Football Champions
Michigan (8-0-0)Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Store, T. S. Stribling
Drama: Both Your Houses, Maxwell Anderson
Nobel Prize for Literature: Ivan G. Bunin (Russia)
Miss America: Marion Bergeron (CT)
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- Edwin Armstrong introduces frequency modulation (FM), a static-free method of transmission.
- Esquire debuts as the first men's magazine.
- Laurens Hammond introduces his Hammond organ.
- Sally Rand's fan dance is a hit at the Chicago World's Fair.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: None awarded
Physics: Erwin Schrödinger (Austria) and Paul A. M. Dirac (UK), for discovery of new fertile forms of the atomic theory
Physiology or Medicine: Thomas H. Morgan (US), for discoveries on hereditary function of the chromosomes
- Edwin Armstrong devises frequency modulations (FM) which permit radio reception without static.
- A.A. Michelson's work on the speed of light is completed posthumously.
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