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1933 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2034. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1933 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1933

• January 14, 1933 – The controversial “Bodyline” cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine’s England peak when Australian captain Bill Woodfull is hit over the heart.
• January 26, 1933 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.
• February 20, 1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
• March 12, 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats”.
• March 31, 1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
• September 3, 1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
• September 12, 1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
• October 12, 1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
• October 19, 1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
• December 5, 1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.)

Who Were Born On 1933?

• January 6, 1933 – Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich, English surgeon and academic
• January 15, 1933 – Ernest J. Gaines, American author and academic
• February 5, 1933 – B.S. Johnson, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1973)
• March 20, 1933 – Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
• April 27, 1933 – Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert, English police officer and politician, Lord Lieutenant for Greater London
• May 22, 1933 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
• July 31, 1933 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch journalist, author, and poet
• August 2, 1933 – Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Defence
• October 9, 1933 – Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
• November 9, 1933 – Jim Perry, American-Canadian singer and television host