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UK-related events during the year of 1933
Events from the year
1933 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January – The
London Underground diagram designed by
Harry Beck is introduced to the public.
[1]
9 February –
The King and Country debate : The
Oxford Union student debating society passes a resolution stating, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and country."
[2]
28 February –
English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33 : Tour concludes with the
England cricket team winning
The Ashes using the controversial
bodyline tactic.
[3]
25 March – First
car race at
Donington Park circuit in
Leicestershire .
28 March –
1933 Imperial Airways Dixmude crash : The
Imperial Airways
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy
biplane
airliner City of Liverpool catches fire in the air over
Belgium and crashes, killing the crew of three and all twelve passengers, the deadliest accident in the history of British civil aviation to this date.
[4] The fire onboard may have been started deliberately.
[5]
2 April – As a member of the
English cricket team touring New Zealand, 1933 , batsman
Wally Hammond scores a record 336 runs in a test match at
Eden Park ,
Auckland .
[3]
3 April – The
Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale leads an expedition to be the first to fly an aircraft over
Mount Everest .
27 April – The
Jessop & Son
department store in
Nottingham is acquired by the
John Lewis Partnership , its first store outside
London .
30 April – First air service internal to
Scotland ,
Renfrew –
Campbeltown , operated by
Midland & Scottish Air Ferries Ltd.
[6]
Winifred Drinkwater , "the world's first female commercial pilot", is hired to fly the route.
[7]
2 May – First modern "sighting" of the
Loch Ness Monster .
3 May
1 July –
London Passenger Transport Board begins operations, unifying multiple earlier services by road and Underground.
[8]
15 July – Signing of the
Four-Power Pact by the UK, France, Germany and Italy.
[3]
26 July –
Battersea Power Station , London, first generates
electricity .
28 July –
Grand jury abolished in English law.
late July–early October –
Albert Einstein is on a visit to Britain, for some time living in a wooden hut near
Roughton, Norfolk . Having surrendered his German citizenship because of the Nazi regime, he campaigns at this time for safe homes for other exiled Jewish scientists.
[9]
12 August –
Winston Churchill makes his first public speech warning of the dangers of German rearmament.
[8]
17 August – Release of the film
The Private Life of Henry VIII .
Charles Laughton receives an
Academy Award for the title rôle (16 March 1934), making this the first British film to win an
Oscar .
September –
National Grid completed.
6 October –
Milk Marketing Board established.
13 October –
British Interplanetary Society founded in Liverpool.
15 October – The
Rolls-Royce Merlin
aircraft engine is run for the first time (on bench test in
Derby ).
23 October –
Birmingham city council's 40,000th
council house (on the
Weoley Castle estate) is opened by
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Neville Chamberlain .
[10]
27 October –
George Eyston achieves a world land speed record for a diesel car of 101.98 mph (164.12 km/h) at
Brooklands .
21 December
Newfoundland returns to
Crown Colony status following financial collapse.
[8]
The British Plastics Federation (the oldest in the world) is founded.
Undated
Publications
Births
5 January –
Derek Johnson , athlete (died 2004)
6 January
13 January –
Janet Kear , ornithologist (died 2004)
18 January
24 January –
Jane Somerville , cardiologist
26 January –
Peter Zinovieff , engineer and composer (died 2021)
2 February
6 February –
Leslie Crowther , television comedian and game show host (died
1996 )
7 February –
John Anderton , footballer
8 February –
Donald Burgess , track cyclist
9 February –
John Michell , writer (died 2009)
17 February –
Cedric Robinson , Queen's Guide to the Sands (died
2021 )
18 February
22 February
27 February –
Stan Anderson , English football player, manager (died
2018 )
9 March – Sir
David Weatherall , physician (died
2018 )
12 March –
Ken Hodgkisson , English footballer (died
2018 )
14 March – Sir
Michael Caine , actor
17 March – Dame
Penelope Lively , novelist
21 March –
Michael Heseltine , British politician and businessman.
23 March –
Norman Bailey , opera singer (died
2021 )
[15]
25 March –
Ray Spencer , footballer (died
2016 )
1 April –
Brianne Murphy , cinematographer (died 2003)
4 April –
Brian Hewson , track and field athlete (died 2022)
6 April
11 April –
Torquil Norman , businessman and philanthropist
14 April –
Paddy Hopkirk , Northern Ireland-born rally driver (died
2022 )
16 April –
Joan Bakewell , broadcaster
18 April –
Michael Bradshaw , actor (died
2001 )
19 April
21 April –
Ian Carr , jazz musician (died 2009)
24 April –
Claire Davenport , actress (died
2002 )
27 April –
Peter Imbert , Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (died 2017)
2 May –
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf , lawyer, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
9 May –
Jessica Steele , romance novelist (died 2020)
10 May –
Barbara Taylor Bradford , English–born novelist
15 May
17 May –
Shelley Rohde , journalist and author (died 2007)
22 May –
Don Estelle , actor (died 2003)
23 May –
Joan Collins , actress
24 May –
Anne Mustoe , teacher, cyclist and travel writer (died 2009)
25 May
29 May –
Nick Whitehead , Olympic sprinter (died 2002)
2 June –
David Mudd , politician (died 2020)
7 June –
Stanley Clarke , businessman (died 2004)
8 June –
Robert Stevens , English lawyer and academic (died 2021)
10 June –
Colin Grainger , footballer (died 2022)
[18]
14 June –
John McHardy Sinclair , linguist (died 2007)
16 June –
John Cunliffe , author (died 2018)
20 June –
Claire Tomalin , hjournalist and biographer
22 June –
Tony Booth , poster artist (died 2017)
26 June –
David Winnick , Labour Party politician
1 July –
Joe Buick , Scottish footballer
6 July –
Frank Austin , footballer (died 2004)
7 July –
Bruce Wells , boxer, actor (died
2009 )
8 July –
Jeff Nuttall , actor, poet and painter (died 2004)
9 July –
Oliver Sacks , English-born
neurologist (died 2015)
13 July –
David Storey , novelist and playwright (died 2017)
15 July –
Julian Bream , guitarist and lutenist (died 2020)
22 July –
Alexander Trotman , businessman (died
2005 )
29 July –
Peter Baldwin , actor (d.
2015 )
2 August –
Tom Bell , actor (died 2006)
5 August –
Nicholas Scott , politician (died 2005)
9 August –
Albert Quixall , footballer (died 2020)
10 August
11 August –
Chris Harris , basketball player
15 August
18 August –
Michael Baxandall , art historian (died 2008)
21 August
4 September –
George Claydon , actor (died 2001)
8 September –
Michael Frayn , playwright and novelist
11 September –
Margaret Booth , judge (died 2021)
19 September –
David McCallum , actor and musician (died 2023)
20 September –
Dennis Viollet , English footballer (died
1999 )
26 September –
Nicholas J. Phillips , physicist (died 2009)
2 October –
John Gurdon , developmental biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
9 October
Peter Mansfield , physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2017)
Bill Tidy , cartoonist and illustrator (died 2023)
11 October –
Richard Abel Smith , British army officer (died
2004 )
13 October –
Thomas Bingham , judge (died 2010)
21 October –
Maureen Duffy , English poet, playwright, author and activist
[19]
24 October –
Kray twins , gangsters (died 1995 & 2000)
25 October –
Peter Dennis , actor (died 2009)
3 November –
John Barry , film score composer (died 2011)
8 November –
Peter Arundell , racing driver (died 2009)
9 November –
Geoff Gunney , English rugby league footballer (died 2018)
23 November –
John Sanders , organist and composer (died 2003)
2 December –
Peter Robin Harding , air marshal and pilot (died 2021)
3 December –
Rosalind Knight , actress (died
2020 )
14 December –
David Maloney , television producer (died 2006)
16 December –
Jennifer Toye , opera singer (died 2022)
29 December –
Samuel Brittan , economic journalist (died 2020)
Deaths
5 January
7 January –
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh , artist and designer (born
1864 )
14 January –
Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet , orthopaedic surgeon (born
1857 )
January –
Bowman Malcolm , railway engineer,
Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (born
1854 )
31 January –
John Galsworthy , novelist,
Nobel Prize laureate (born
1867 )
2 February –
Sir Herbert Cory , politician (born 1857)
22 April – Sir
Henry Royce , car manufacturer (born
1863 )
7 June –
Sir Morley Fletcher , physiologist and administrator (born
1873 )
14 June – Sir
Ernest William Moir , civil engineer (born
1862 )
16 July – Sir
Tudor Walters , politician (born
1866 )
25 July –
John May , Scottish international footballer (born
1878 )
31 July –
Robert Fleming , financier (born
1845 )
10 August –
Alf Morgans , Welsh-born Prime Minister of
Western Australia (born
1850 )
12 October –
John Lister , politician (born
1847 )
18 October
24 October –
Annie Swynnerton , painter (born 1844)
25 October –
Lillian Hall-Davis , actress (born 1898)
20 November –
Augustine Birrell , author and politician (born 1850)
30 November –
Harry de Windt , explorer (born 1856 in France)
19 December –
George Jackson Churchward , locomotive engineer,
Great Western Railway (railway accident) (born 1857)
21 December –
Dora Montefiore , suffragist and socialist (born
1851 )
26 December –
Henry Watson Fowler , lexicographer (born
1858 )
30 December –
Dugald Cowan , educationalist and Liberal politician (born
1865 )
See also
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^
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ISBN
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^
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ISBN
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^ "Birmingham has built 77,000 houses during King's reign". Birmingham Daily Gazette . 2 May 1935. p. 25.
^
Lockley, R. M. (1934). Island Days .
^
"The Nobel Peace Prize 1933" . Retrieved 2 December 2007 .
^
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^ Ben Quinn (15 October 2012).
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^
Norman Bailey (1933–2021)
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ISBN
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^ Finn, Rachel (13 January 2023).
"Corrie's Sally Dynevor and Bridgerton star daughter devastated as family member dies" . OK Magazine .
^
RIP COLIN GRAINGER (1933–2022)
^
"Maureen Duffy" . bl.uk . Retrieved 20 November 2022 . [
dead link ]