The Soviet Union began its second
Five-Year Plan with the goal of more than doubling the gross national product, from 43 billion rubles to 93 billion, by December 31, 1937.[1]
Capital punishment was abolished in Denmark by amendment of the 1866 Criminal Code. After the passage of the Code, 70 convicted criminals received death sentences, but only four were actually executed.[2]
Juan Bautista Sacasa was sworn in as
President of Nicaragua, bringing an end to the American occupation there. General Mathews, the U.S. commander of the Nicaraguan National Guard, turned over his authority to Nicaraguan General
Anastasio Somoza García, and President Sacasa began immediate negotiations to end the war with the Sandinista rebels.[3]
Archaeologists and fortune hunters Jerry van Graan and Ernst van Graan began excavations of the ancestral graveyard of the Kings of
Mapungubwe in
South Africa, undisturbed since the 13th Century, after being tipped off by a local resident.[4]
January 2, 1933 (Monday)
After a seven-year occupation of
Nicaragua, the last 910 U.S. Marines and sailors withdrew, departing from the port of
Corinto. American forces sustained 47 killed in combat, and 66 wounded during the campaign. Two days earlier, 8 Marines had been killed in an ambush.[5]
Striking from the puppet state of
Manchukuo, Japan launched
Operation Nekka, its takeover of China's
Jehol Province, attacking the port town of
Shanhaiguan (through a gap in the
Great Wall of China), killing hundreds of Chinese soldiers and civilians. On February 24, Japan would begin its takeover of the rest of the province with 31,000 troops, and would expand its territory.[9]
General
Douglas MacArthur, the U. S. Army Chief of Staff, issued an order requiring the U.S. Army Air Corps (forerunner of the U.S. Air Force) "to conduct the land-based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas possessions".[11]
Wilhelm Cuno, 56, former
Chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923. Cuno collapsed on the doorstep of his home in
Hamburg as he and his wife were preparing to leave for a vacation.[13]
After a ban against African-American enlistments that had begun on August 4, 1919, the
United States Navy allowed Negroes to join, though only in the
steward's department, in food service and as servants for officers. At the time, 0.5% of the enlisted men were black. The reversal was not prompted by racial enlightenment, but by concerns that the number of available Filipino domestic help would be dwindling.[14]
Political enemies, Nazi Party Chairman
Adolf Hitler and former German Chancellor
Franz von Papen, united only by their enmity with Chancellor
Kurt von Schleicher, met in
Cologne at the home of banker
Kurt von Schröder, with the goal of forcing Schleicher from office. As a result of the negotiations, Papen would support Hitler to be named as the new
Chancellor of Germany by the end of the month.[15]
The
French Line luxury ocean liner
L'Atlantique caught fire while traveling, without passengers, to
Le Havre for routine maintenance. Nineteen of the crew of 225 died, and the ship was destroyed. Had the fire broken out when the ship was carrying a full load of passengers, hundreds would have died.[16]
Dr. V. Gregory Burtan (aka Valentine G. Burtan, aka William Gregory Burtan), a respected New York cardiologist and member of the
Communist Party of the United States of America, was arrested as operator of a
counterfeiting operation that had lasted more than five years. Starting in 1927, in an operation approved by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, tens of millions of dollars worth of realistic-looking but bogus U.S. currency had been printed and put into circulation in the United States, Europe, and China. Burtan was sentenced to 15 years in prison but would be paroled after ten years.[17][18][19]
The 531 members of the
electoral college, who had been selected by American voters in the
presidential election on November 8, 1932, met in their respective state capitals to formally cast their ballots for Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert Hoover. The results, in favor of Roosevelt 472–59, would be made official on February 8.[20]
Died:Charles H. Jones, 77, American industrialist, best known as founder of the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Company, and creator of the popular "Bostonian" shoe; in Weston, Massachusetts.
January 5, 1933 (Thursday)
The Soviet Union began requiring every citizen over the age of 16 to carry an
internal passport. A propiska, the official stamp on the passport issued by the
NKVD, governed where a person could reside, and restricted who could live or work in designated "closed cities" (Moscow,
Leningrad,
Kiev,
Odessa,
Minsk,
Kharkov,
Vladivostok and
Rostov-on-Don). By the end of the year, 27 million passports were issued. Another 420,000 persons who failed a background check were expelled from their homes.[21] Distribution of the new passports began on January 20.[22]
Construction of the
Golden Gate Bridge began, beginning with the anchorage for the tower at Marin, on the north side of the
San Francisco Bay. The project was funded by a $35 million bond issue and by the Federal
Works Progress Administration. Chief Engineer
Joseph Strauss introduced several safety measures for the construction workers, including head, eye and skin protection, and a safety net below the bridge, which would save 19 men from death. The bridge would be opened to the public on May 27, 1937.[23]
Notorious American gangster
Clyde Barrow killed Malcolm Davis, a Deputy Sheriff for
Tarrant County, Texas, in
West Dallas, after which
Bonnie and Clyde attracted the attention of the American press, which would follow their crimes until they were both killed on May 23, 1934.[26]
The South Bend News-Times, local paper for the University of Notre Dame, published a copyrighted story that the March 31, 1931, airplane crash, that killed Notre Dame Coach
Knute Rockne, had been caused by a time-bomb placed in the plane. According to the story, the intent was to kill the Reverend John Reynolds, to keep him from testifying in the Jake Lingle murder trial. Father Reynolds had given up his seat on the airplane in favor of Rockne, but had already testified at the trial of Leo Brothers four days earlier.[27] The investigation of the crash, however, concluded that it was an accident caused by either turbulence or the buildup of ice on the wings. [28]
Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin addressed the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party on the results of his first
Five-Year Plan, reporting that Soviet industrial output had tripled (219% increase) while production in other countries dropped, as proof that the Soviet system was superior to capitalism.[30]
Died:Bert Hinkler, 40, Australian aviator, after taking off from Hanworth, London, in an attempt to fly around the world. Hinkler's body and the wreckage of his airplane would be found on April 27 in the Apennine Mountains in Italy.[33]
January 8, 1933 (Sunday)
U.S. Representative
Samuel A. Kendall of Pennsylvania committed suicide in his office at the U.S. Capitol.[34]
Anarchists mounted an uprising in
Catalonia and other regions of Spain, with attacks against police and military installations in
Barcelona,
Valencia, and
Lerida, where 21 people were killed, and in
Sevilla,
Zaragoza,
Málaga and
Gijón. The Spanish government declared
martial law on 9 January.[35]
Born:Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator (CBS Sunday Morning); in New York City.
Died:Benton McMillin, 87, former U.S. Congressman (1879–99), Governor of
Tennessee (1899–1903), Ambassador to
Peru (1913–19), and Ambassador to
Guatemala (1920–21).
January 9, 1933 (Monday)
Using for the first time his pen name
George Orwell, British author
Eric Blair published his book, Down and Out in Paris and London. Blair's three other choices for pen names had been P.S. Burton, Kenneth Miles and H. Lewis Allways.[36]
U.S. President-Elect Roosevelt hosted
Henry L. Stimson, President Hoover's Secretary of State, at
Hyde Park, and found that the two agreed on foreign policy. Stimson would become Roosevelt's Secretary of War in 1940.[37]
Robert Garcia, controversial U.S. Congressman (D-N.Y., 1978–1990), in the Bronx (d. 2017)
Died:Kate Gleason, 67, American engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.
January 10, 1933 (Tuesday)
In
Friedrichshain, 400 Nazis attempted to force their way into a hall where 2,000 communists were holding a political rally. A street fight broke out resulting in many injuries.[38]
Japanese troops captured Jiumenkou, site of the "pass of nine gates" that blocked entry into the
Jehol Province, after fighting and capturing
Shanhaiguan, as Japan sought to expand its territory in China.[39]
Sir
Charles Kingsford Smith made the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand, taking the Southern Cross, and four passengers, 1,200 miles from
Sydney to
New Plymouth.[40]
After anarchists had taken control of the town of
Casas Viejas the day before, the Spanish Army retaliated with the massacre of 22 civilians. When the extent of the carnage became public knowledge during the summer, Prime Minister
Manuel Azaña Díaz was forced from office. Spanish Army General
Francisco Franco later used the incident in gaining support for his rebels during the
Spanish Civil War.[35][41]
The CPSU Central Committee passed a resolution for a massive purge of the Soviet Communist Party, with 800,000 expelled during the year, and 340,000 more in 1934.[42]
The last will and testament of former President Coolidge, true to his laconic reputation, was revealed to contain only 24 words: "Not unmindful of my son, John, I give all my estate, both real and personal, to my wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, in fee simple."[43]
Greek Prime Minister
Panagis Tsaldaris and his cabinet resigned after word was received that the opposition parties had withdrawn their confidence.[45] A vote of no-confidence followed the next day, and
Eleutherios Venizelos formed a new cabinet on January 16.[46]
January 13, 1933 (Friday)
The
Ilyushin Design Bureau, the Russian aircraft manufacturing company, was established in the Soviet Union by order of P.I. Baranov, at the time the People's Commissar of the Heavy Industry, and Director of the Soviet Department of the Aviation Industry and would be named for aircraft designer
Sergey Ilyushin. [47] After the demise of the Soviet Union, the company was acquired by the privately-owned
United Aircraft Corporation of Russia.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 274-94 to override President Hoover's veto of the Philippine independence bill, two hours after the veto message was received.[48][49]
England defeated Australia 341–109 at Adelaide before a crowd of 50,962 in the third
crickettest match in the series, with
Harold Larwood using his controversial "
bodyline" bowling and injuring
Bill Woodfull when a ball hit his chest. Two days later a ball from Larwood struck
Bert Oldfield in the head. The
Australian Board of Control protested to the Marylebone Cricket Club, captained by
Douglas Jardine and representing England, on January 18[50] and the practice, serious enough to hurt relations between Australia and the United Kingdom, was banned by English clubs on November 23.[51]
Pope Pius XI declared 1933 to be a Holy Year, in recognition of the 1,900th anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, with the issuance of a bull entitled Quod Nuper ("Since recently..").[52]
The success of the
Nazi Party in elections in the German
Free State of Lippe demonstrated the stability of the Nazis and gave impetus to support for
Adolf Hitler to become Chancellor.[53]
The
Marian apparition referred to as
Our Lady of Banneux was first observed in the village of
Banneux in Belgium. Teenager Mariette Besco reported seeing the Virgin Mary seven more times, with the final occurrence on March 2.[54]
Died:Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, daughter of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and women's rights leader.
January 16, 1933 (Monday)
In his campaign to disperse the
kulaks, independent farmers who were resisting the Soviet campaign for
collective farming, Joseph Stalin ordered the eviction of hundreds of kulak families from the countryside around
Odessa and
Chernigov. This was followed by orders to deport the kulaks from Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Bashkiria, Lower Volga, and 30,000 from the Northern Caucasus. Eventually, more than one million resisters were resettled in Siberia.[55]
The
Buy American Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives as an amendment to the 1934 Treasury and Post Office appropriations bill. It would pass the Senate on February 4 and be signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on his last full day in office.[56]
Born:Susan Sontag, American author, as Susan Rosenblatt in New York City (d. 2004).
Died:Lee Cruce, 70, the second Governor of Oklahoma (1911–1915).
January 17, 1933 (Tuesday)
Following the example of the U.S. House of Representatives on January 13, the
United States Senate voted 66-26 to override President Hoover's veto of the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, passing it into law by a margin of 5 votes. The new law provided for the Philippines to become a self-governing Commonwealth, with full independence in ten years.[49][57]
Outgoing U.S. President Herbert Hoover asked Congress to pass a national sales tax upon all items except food and "cheap clothing", in order to balance the budget and offset a projected deficit of $700 million.[58]
Imre Nagy, the future
Prime Minister of Hungary who would attempt to free his nation from Soviet domination, was first recruited by the Soviet NKVD as an informer, under the code name "Volodya".[59]
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, who received her nickname from her initials as Miriam Amanda Ferguson, took office as the first woman
Governor of Texas. The next day, she fired all 44 of the Texas Rangers.[60]
Angelo Herndon, a 19-year-old African-American and Communist Party member, was convicted of an attempt to incite an insurrection, and sentenced by a state court in Atlanta to 18 years imprisonment.[62] In 1937, the United States Supreme Court declared the Georgia law, which made membership in the Communist Party and solicitation for membership illegal, to be an unconstitutional infringement on the right to free speech, and reversed Herndon's conviction. Herndon's case attracted black membership in the
CPUSA.[63]
Murray Garsson, at that time a special investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, announced that he would seek the deportation of foreign film stars who had been staying in the United States illegally, beginning on January 23. Among the most prominent foreign stars at the time were
Greta Garbo,
Marlene Dietrich,
Maurice Chevalier, and
Maureen O'Sullivan.[64] Fifteen actors who failed to produce their papers were asked to leave the country until they could obtain entrance under the immigration quotas.[65]
Born:John Boorman, English film director (Deliverance, Excalibur and Hope and Glory); in
Shepperton.
January 19, 1933 (Thursday)
The first 100 of 312,500
1933 Double Eagle $20 gold pieces were delivered by the United States Mint to the U.S. Treasurer. Because the coins were never put into circulation, and nearly all would be melted into gold bricks, they became the most rare and valuable of American coins. A single one would sell at a 2002 auction for $7,590,020.[66]
U.S. Senator
Cordell Hull of Tennessee was first offered the position of Secretary of State by President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt. Hull considered the offer for several weeks and then accepted.[67]
Sixty inches of snow fell on the
Giant Forest in
California, an American record for greatest snowfall in one calendar day. The record for 24 hours was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake in
Boulder County, Colorado, during April 14–15, 1921.[68]
Mary, Lady Bailey, British aviator who had disappeared while attempting a solo flight from England to South Africa, was located and rescued after four days in the
Sahara Desert. She had been forced to land 15 miles southwest of
Tahoua, Niger, French West Africa, and was dehydrated and exhausted, but uninjured.[69]
January 20, 1933 (Friday)
In the largest battle up to that time in the
Chaco War, 4,000 troops from
Bolivia stormed the trenches of 10,000
Paraguayan soldiers at
Nanawa.[70]
After the failure of the American Trust Company Bank of Davenport, the
newly inaugurated Governor of Iowa declared a
bank holiday, temporarily closing all of the banks in that state to prevent further withdrawals.
Nevada had declared the first bank holiday on October 31, 1932, and consumer confidence had stabilized after the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President. The Iowa action was followed by more bank failures across the United States, and more temporary closures, with
Louisiana following suit on February 3 and
Michigan on February 14. By March 3, half of the 48 states had declared bank holidays, and President Roosevelt made a nationwide closure on March 6, two days after taking office. A record total of 242 American banks failed in January 1933.[71]
Soviet premier
V. M. Molotov and Party First Secretary
Joseph Stalin issued a decree replacing the prior practice of requiring peasant farmers to deliver a percentage of their grain harvest to the state, replacing it with a flat rate. Under the former rule, "the more they produced, the more the government took".[72]
Died: Lt. Irvin A. Woodring, last of the U.S. Army's "Three Musketeers of Aviation" for their performances at air shows, in an airplane crash. His comrades, Lt. J.J. Williams and Lt. W. L. Cornelius had both been killed in 1928.[73]
January 21, 1933 (Saturday)
The development of what would become the
Tennessee Valley Authority was endorsed by President-elect Roosevelt after he visited
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and told an audience in Montgomery, "My friends, I am determined on two things as a result of what I have seen today. The first is to put Muscle Shoals to work. The second is to make Muscle Shoals a part of an even greater development that will take in all of that magnificent Tennessee River from the mountains of Virginia down to the Ohio and the Gulf..." The result was that electricity was brought to rural areas in seven of the southeastern United States, in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia.[74][75]
January 22, 1933 (Sunday)
In response to the exodus of starving peasants from the
famine in the Ukrainian SSR, Stalin and Molotov issued orders directing the national police and local authorities to "stop, by all means necessary, the large-scale departure of peasants from Ukraine and the Northern Caucasus" in that "this massive exodus of the peasants has been organized by enemies of the Soviet regime". The sale of railway tickets was halted the next day, and barricades were erected to keep peasants from leaving their district of residence.[76]
The
Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified after the legislature of
Missouri became the 36th state to vote in favor of it. The vote in the Missouri House of Representatives came at 10:00 in the morning, when the speaker moved the opening session ahead four hours in order to vote on the amendment ahead of
Massachusetts.[78] Authored by U.S. Senator
George W. Norris of Nebraska, and submitted to the states in 1932 after overwhelming approval by the Senate (63-7) and the House (336-56), the amendment changed the Presidential inauguration from March 4 to January 20. It also changed the date of inauguration Congress members, from March 4 to January 3, and changed the opening day of Congress from "the first Monday in December" to January 3 as well. Prior to the change, members who had been defeated in November elections were able to continue meeting for 13 months.[79] Senator Norris had first proposed an amendment that the U.S. Senate had approved, 63 to 6, on February 13, 1923, that would have set the beginning of the new presidential and vice-presidential terms on "the third Monday in January following their election", and for Congress to be the first Monday in January [80] but the legislation had not been voted on in the House.
The boundary dispute between
Guatemala and
Honduras was settled after nearly 95 years, when the Special Boundary Tribunal issued an arbitration award. Prior attempts to settle the dispute had failed in 1845, 1895 and 1914, until the two nations agreed to submit the dispute on July 16, 1930.[81]
Born:Chita Rivera, American stage actress and dancer, 2-time Tony Award winner, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom; (as Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero), in
Washington, D.C.
January 24, 1933 (Tuesday)
The Central Committee of the CPSU began a purge of the Ukrainian Communist Party by Russia—the first secretaries in three of the seven oblasts were replaced by the Soviet party, with the main change being to replace Roman Terekhov as the Kharkov party boss by
Pavel Postyshev. Throughout the year, 5,000 Ukrainian Party workers were replaced by outsiders.[82]
In
parliamentary elections in the Irish Free State,
Éamon de Valera's
Fianna Fáil party won 77 of the 153 total seats in the
Dáil Éireann, with the remainder going to
Cumann na nGaedheal (48), the National Centre Party (11), independent candidates (9), and Labour (8). "With a fuller parliamentary majority" an author later wrote, "de Valera was able to abolish the Oath of Allegiance (1933), the Senate (June 1936), university representation in the Dáil (1934-36), all references to the monarch in the Constitution (December 1936, in the aftermath of the abdication of Edward VIII), and the Governor General (1937). A new Constitution was then put to referendum."[83]
January 25, 1933 (Wednesday)
Barrandov Studios, which would become the major film studio for Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, was formed in Prague.[84]
Alva Belmont, 80, American suffragist and philanthropist.
January 26, 1933 (Thursday)
The
League of Nations Council cabled an order to the government of
Peru to refrain from a planned invasion of
Colombia in a dispute over the municipality of
Leticia, citing Peru's duty as a League member.[85]
January 27, 1933 (Friday)
After a walkout of 6,000
Briggs Manufacturing Company workers, who manufactured automobile bodies, the Ford Motor Company closed its American factories indefinitely, putting 100,000 people out of work, as well as 50,000 in supplying factories.[86]
January 28, 1933 (Saturday)
Choudhary Rahmat Ali published the pamphlet
"Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish For Ever?", proposing to separate the 30,000,000 Muslim residents of
British India from the Hindu and coined the name for the future nation—Pakistan—albeit as "Pakstan" from "the five Northern units of India" (Punjab, Afghan Province, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan)".[87] "Pak" and "stan" were also the
Persian language words for "pure" and "land".
Kurt von Schleicher resigned as
Chancellor of Germany,[88] after President Hindenburg refused to grant him dictatorial powers to manage the nation's economic crisis and after being unable to form a coalition government.[89] Hindenburg attempted to persuade
Franz von Papen to succeed Schleicher, but Papen declined, leaving Adolf Hitler as Hindenburg's choice.
In a vote of no confidence, the French Chamber of Deputies voted 390–193 against the government of Premier
Joseph Paul-Boncour, who then resigned.[90]
January 29, 1933 (Sunday)
Édouard Daladier was asked by President LeBrun of France to become the new Prime Minister and to form a new government. Daladier, who had been the French Minister of War, accepted and formed a new cabinet of ministers.[91]
The Lone Ranger made a debut, originally as a radio program on station WXYZ in
Detroit. Writer Fran Striker and station owner George Trendle created the adventure of the masked man who brought justice to the American West. The program, heard on a clear channel station, would be picked up nationwide by the Mutual Broadcasting System and was notable for its use of the
William Tell Overture as its
theme music, and its catch phrases "Hi-yo, Silver!" and "Who was that masked man?"[93]
January 31, 1933 (Tuesday)
The day after Adolf Hitler and his coalition partners formed the new ministry, the Reichstag was dissolved and new elections were called for March 5.[94]
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^Lars Bo Langsted, et al., Criminal Law in Denmark (Kluwer Law International, 2010), p. 24
^Manzar Foroohar, The Catholic Church and Social Change in Nicaragua (SUNY Press, 1989), p. 23
^David Fleminger, Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (30° South Publishers, 2008), pp. 84–5
^Benjamin R. Beede, The War of 1898, and U.S. interventions, 1898-1934: an encyclopedia (Taylor & Francis, 1994), p. 379
^"Lehman Takes Office Today as Governor", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 2, 1933, p. 2
^"TROJANS EASILY DEFEAT PANTHERS BY 35 TO 0", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 3, 1933, p. 1
^"Actor Plunges to His Death", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 2, 1933, p. 1
^Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, A Study of Crisis (University of Michigan Press, 1997), p. 156; "Japanese Take Town in China", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 3, 1933, p. 1
^Dermot Keogh, Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church-State Relations, 1922-1960 (Cork University Press, 1995), p. 101; "Irish Political Conflict Begins", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 3, 1933, p. 2
^Robert Frank Futrell, Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force (Volume 1) (Air University Press, 1989), p. 66
^Gary S. Dunbar, Geography: Discipline, Profession, and Subject since 1870: An International Survey (Springer, 2001), p. 100
^"Cuno Falls Dead on Steps of Home", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 3, 1933, p. 3
^Robert J. Schneller, Jr., Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality (NYU Press, 2005), p. 55
^Anthony Read, The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), pp. 262-3
^Kit Bonner and Carolyn Bonner, Great Ship Disasters (Zenith Imprint, 2003) pp87-91: "More Than 30 Feared Dead as Ship Burns in Channel", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 5, 1933, p. 1
^Roman Brackman, The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life (Taylor & Francis, 2003), p. 190; John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 166-7; "Physician Seized as Counterfeiter", New York Times, January 5, 1933
^"Electors Will Vote for Roosevelt Today; Congress Is Slated for Joint Session Feb. 8 to Certify Presidential Choice", New York Times, January 4, 1933
^"The Russian Card: The Propiska", by Nicholas Werth, in National Identification Systems: Essays in Opposition (McFarland, 2004), p. 117
^"'Leisure Class' to Be Driven Out of Soviet Cities Soon", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 16, 1933, p. 3
^Mick Sinclair, San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary History (Interlink Books, 2004), pp. 131-2; Rand Richards, Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide (Heritage House Publishers, 2007), p. 202
^Ruth Tenzer Feldman, Calvin Coolidge (Twenty-First Century Books, 2006), p. 96; Paul B. Wice,Presidents in Retirement: Alone and Out of Office (Lexington Books, 2009), p. 159; "Coolidge Dies From Heart Attack; Body Is Found in Home By His Wife", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 6, 1933, p. 1
^Dmitri Volkogonov, Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary (Simon and Schuster, 1996), p. 351
^William B. Breuer,J. Edgar Hoover and His G-men (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995), p. 61
^"Bomb Killed Rockne, Claim", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 7, 1933, p. 1
^George Bibel, Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
^"Famed Pianist Buried With Simplest Rites", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 9, 1933, p. 2
^Iván T. Berend, Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II (University of California Press, 2001), p. 278
^Bill C. Malone, Country Music, U.S.A. (University of Texas Press, 2002), p. 98
^Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman, eds., Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Volume 1) (Taylor & Francis, 2004), p.452
^Ed Wright, Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Pier 9, 2008), p. 298
^
abStanley G. Payne, Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), pp. 129–32
^Peter Stansky and William Miller Abrahams, The Unknown Orwell: Orwell, the Transformation (Stanford University Press, 1994), p. 307
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^"House Blocks Veto; Filipino Bill In Senate- Hoover Objections Are Quickly Set Aside In Lower Branch", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 14, 1933, p. 1
^
abPaul H. Kratoska, South East Asia, Colonial History: Imperial Decline: Nationalism and the Japanese Challenge (1920s-1940s) (Taylor & Francis, 2001), p. 129
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^Steven Lynch, Wisden on the Ashes: The Authoritative Story of Cricket's Greatest Rivalry (A&C Black, 2009) p224
^"Pope Ordains Year of Peace", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 16, 1933, p. 1
^Wolfgang Benz and Thomas Dunlap, A Concise History of the Third Reich (University of California Press, 2006), p. 17
^Lisa J. Schwebel, Apparitions, Healings, and Weeping Madonnas: Christianity and the Paranormal (Paulist Press, 2004)
^Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: A New Biography (Simon and Schuster, 1998)
^Dana Frank, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon Press, 2000), p. 65
^"Filipino Bill Enacted Over Hoover Veto", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 1933, p. 1
^"Tax on Sales to Balance Budget Urged by Hoover", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 1933, p. 1
^Charles Gati, Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (Stanford University Press, 2006), p. 34
^Mike Cox, Time of the Rangers: Texas Rangers: From 1900 to the Present (Macmillan, 2010), p. 154
^"Auto Kills Noted Astronomer", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 1933, p. 1
^"Colored Communist Gets 18 Years", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 19, 1933, p.1
^"Communism and African Americans", Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the Present (Paul Finkelman, ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 469
^"U.S. Acts to Deport Movie Stars Here Illegally", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 19, 1933, p.2
^"Foreign Stars' Exodus Begun", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 28, 1933, p. 1
^David Tripp, Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle (Simon and Schuster, 2004), p. 124
^Michael A. Butler, Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937 (Kent State University Press, 1998), p. 1
^Barbara Tufty, 1001 Questions Answered about Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Other Natural Air Disasters (Courier Dover Publications, 1987), p. 260
^"Find Aviatrix Lost in Desert", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 20, 1933, p. 1
^"Biggest Battle in Gran Chaco", Milwaukee Journal, January 22, 1933, p. 2
^Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (Princeton University Press, 1971), pp. 325-7
^"Soviets Will 'Tax' Peasants in Grain", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 21, 1933, p. 2
^"Last of Airplane 'Musketeers' Dies", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 21, 1933, p. 1
^"U.S. to Run Shoals Plant, Roosevelt Says", Milwaukee Journal, January 22, 1933, p. 1
^Aelred J. Gray and David A. Johnson, The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program: The Transformation of an Institution and its Mission (Ashgate Publishing, 2005), p. 157
^Stéphane Courtois, Livre noir du Communisme: crimes, terreur, répression, translator Mark Kramer (Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 164
^Eugene Davidson, The Trial of the Germans: An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (University of Missouri Press, 1997), pp. 196-8
^John R. Vile, Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2002 (ABC-CLIO, 2003), p. 468
^"Senate for Change of Congress Date; Norris Amendment, Which Ends 'Lame Ducks' Service, Also Advances Inauguration; Proposal Now Goes to House, but Passage at This Session Is Doubtful", The New York Times, February 14, 1923, p. 1
^Victor Prescott and Gillian D. Triggs, International Frontiers and Boundaries: Law, Politics and Geography (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008), p. 118
^Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 229
^Avi Dan Santo, Transmedia Brand Licensing prior to Conglomeration: George Trendle and the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet Brands, 1933-1966 (ProQuest, 2006), p. 103
^Alexander J. De Grand, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The 'Fascist' Style of Rule (Routledge, 2004), pp. 28-9
The Soviet Union began its second
Five-Year Plan with the goal of more than doubling the gross national product, from 43 billion rubles to 93 billion, by December 31, 1937.[1]
Capital punishment was abolished in Denmark by amendment of the 1866 Criminal Code. After the passage of the Code, 70 convicted criminals received death sentences, but only four were actually executed.[2]
Juan Bautista Sacasa was sworn in as
President of Nicaragua, bringing an end to the American occupation there. General Mathews, the U.S. commander of the Nicaraguan National Guard, turned over his authority to Nicaraguan General
Anastasio Somoza García, and President Sacasa began immediate negotiations to end the war with the Sandinista rebels.[3]
Archaeologists and fortune hunters Jerry van Graan and Ernst van Graan began excavations of the ancestral graveyard of the Kings of
Mapungubwe in
South Africa, undisturbed since the 13th Century, after being tipped off by a local resident.[4]
January 2, 1933 (Monday)
After a seven-year occupation of
Nicaragua, the last 910 U.S. Marines and sailors withdrew, departing from the port of
Corinto. American forces sustained 47 killed in combat, and 66 wounded during the campaign. Two days earlier, 8 Marines had been killed in an ambush.[5]
Striking from the puppet state of
Manchukuo, Japan launched
Operation Nekka, its takeover of China's
Jehol Province, attacking the port town of
Shanhaiguan (through a gap in the
Great Wall of China), killing hundreds of Chinese soldiers and civilians. On February 24, Japan would begin its takeover of the rest of the province with 31,000 troops, and would expand its territory.[9]
General
Douglas MacArthur, the U. S. Army Chief of Staff, issued an order requiring the U.S. Army Air Corps (forerunner of the U.S. Air Force) "to conduct the land-based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas possessions".[11]
Wilhelm Cuno, 56, former
Chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923. Cuno collapsed on the doorstep of his home in
Hamburg as he and his wife were preparing to leave for a vacation.[13]
After a ban against African-American enlistments that had begun on August 4, 1919, the
United States Navy allowed Negroes to join, though only in the
steward's department, in food service and as servants for officers. At the time, 0.5% of the enlisted men were black. The reversal was not prompted by racial enlightenment, but by concerns that the number of available Filipino domestic help would be dwindling.[14]
Political enemies, Nazi Party Chairman
Adolf Hitler and former German Chancellor
Franz von Papen, united only by their enmity with Chancellor
Kurt von Schleicher, met in
Cologne at the home of banker
Kurt von Schröder, with the goal of forcing Schleicher from office. As a result of the negotiations, Papen would support Hitler to be named as the new
Chancellor of Germany by the end of the month.[15]
The
French Line luxury ocean liner
L'Atlantique caught fire while traveling, without passengers, to
Le Havre for routine maintenance. Nineteen of the crew of 225 died, and the ship was destroyed. Had the fire broken out when the ship was carrying a full load of passengers, hundreds would have died.[16]
Dr. V. Gregory Burtan (aka Valentine G. Burtan, aka William Gregory Burtan), a respected New York cardiologist and member of the
Communist Party of the United States of America, was arrested as operator of a
counterfeiting operation that had lasted more than five years. Starting in 1927, in an operation approved by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, tens of millions of dollars worth of realistic-looking but bogus U.S. currency had been printed and put into circulation in the United States, Europe, and China. Burtan was sentenced to 15 years in prison but would be paroled after ten years.[17][18][19]
The 531 members of the
electoral college, who had been selected by American voters in the
presidential election on November 8, 1932, met in their respective state capitals to formally cast their ballots for Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert Hoover. The results, in favor of Roosevelt 472–59, would be made official on February 8.[20]
Died:Charles H. Jones, 77, American industrialist, best known as founder of the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Company, and creator of the popular "Bostonian" shoe; in Weston, Massachusetts.
January 5, 1933 (Thursday)
The Soviet Union began requiring every citizen over the age of 16 to carry an
internal passport. A propiska, the official stamp on the passport issued by the
NKVD, governed where a person could reside, and restricted who could live or work in designated "closed cities" (Moscow,
Leningrad,
Kiev,
Odessa,
Minsk,
Kharkov,
Vladivostok and
Rostov-on-Don). By the end of the year, 27 million passports were issued. Another 420,000 persons who failed a background check were expelled from their homes.[21] Distribution of the new passports began on January 20.[22]
Construction of the
Golden Gate Bridge began, beginning with the anchorage for the tower at Marin, on the north side of the
San Francisco Bay. The project was funded by a $35 million bond issue and by the Federal
Works Progress Administration. Chief Engineer
Joseph Strauss introduced several safety measures for the construction workers, including head, eye and skin protection, and a safety net below the bridge, which would save 19 men from death. The bridge would be opened to the public on May 27, 1937.[23]
Notorious American gangster
Clyde Barrow killed Malcolm Davis, a Deputy Sheriff for
Tarrant County, Texas, in
West Dallas, after which
Bonnie and Clyde attracted the attention of the American press, which would follow their crimes until they were both killed on May 23, 1934.[26]
The South Bend News-Times, local paper for the University of Notre Dame, published a copyrighted story that the March 31, 1931, airplane crash, that killed Notre Dame Coach
Knute Rockne, had been caused by a time-bomb placed in the plane. According to the story, the intent was to kill the Reverend John Reynolds, to keep him from testifying in the Jake Lingle murder trial. Father Reynolds had given up his seat on the airplane in favor of Rockne, but had already testified at the trial of Leo Brothers four days earlier.[27] The investigation of the crash, however, concluded that it was an accident caused by either turbulence or the buildup of ice on the wings. [28]
Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin addressed the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party on the results of his first
Five-Year Plan, reporting that Soviet industrial output had tripled (219% increase) while production in other countries dropped, as proof that the Soviet system was superior to capitalism.[30]
Died:Bert Hinkler, 40, Australian aviator, after taking off from Hanworth, London, in an attempt to fly around the world. Hinkler's body and the wreckage of his airplane would be found on April 27 in the Apennine Mountains in Italy.[33]
January 8, 1933 (Sunday)
U.S. Representative
Samuel A. Kendall of Pennsylvania committed suicide in his office at the U.S. Capitol.[34]
Anarchists mounted an uprising in
Catalonia and other regions of Spain, with attacks against police and military installations in
Barcelona,
Valencia, and
Lerida, where 21 people were killed, and in
Sevilla,
Zaragoza,
Málaga and
Gijón. The Spanish government declared
martial law on 9 January.[35]
Born:Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator (CBS Sunday Morning); in New York City.
Died:Benton McMillin, 87, former U.S. Congressman (1879–99), Governor of
Tennessee (1899–1903), Ambassador to
Peru (1913–19), and Ambassador to
Guatemala (1920–21).
January 9, 1933 (Monday)
Using for the first time his pen name
George Orwell, British author
Eric Blair published his book, Down and Out in Paris and London. Blair's three other choices for pen names had been P.S. Burton, Kenneth Miles and H. Lewis Allways.[36]
U.S. President-Elect Roosevelt hosted
Henry L. Stimson, President Hoover's Secretary of State, at
Hyde Park, and found that the two agreed on foreign policy. Stimson would become Roosevelt's Secretary of War in 1940.[37]
Robert Garcia, controversial U.S. Congressman (D-N.Y., 1978–1990), in the Bronx (d. 2017)
Died:Kate Gleason, 67, American engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.
January 10, 1933 (Tuesday)
In
Friedrichshain, 400 Nazis attempted to force their way into a hall where 2,000 communists were holding a political rally. A street fight broke out resulting in many injuries.[38]
Japanese troops captured Jiumenkou, site of the "pass of nine gates" that blocked entry into the
Jehol Province, after fighting and capturing
Shanhaiguan, as Japan sought to expand its territory in China.[39]
Sir
Charles Kingsford Smith made the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand, taking the Southern Cross, and four passengers, 1,200 miles from
Sydney to
New Plymouth.[40]
After anarchists had taken control of the town of
Casas Viejas the day before, the Spanish Army retaliated with the massacre of 22 civilians. When the extent of the carnage became public knowledge during the summer, Prime Minister
Manuel Azaña Díaz was forced from office. Spanish Army General
Francisco Franco later used the incident in gaining support for his rebels during the
Spanish Civil War.[35][41]
The CPSU Central Committee passed a resolution for a massive purge of the Soviet Communist Party, with 800,000 expelled during the year, and 340,000 more in 1934.[42]
The last will and testament of former President Coolidge, true to his laconic reputation, was revealed to contain only 24 words: "Not unmindful of my son, John, I give all my estate, both real and personal, to my wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, in fee simple."[43]
Greek Prime Minister
Panagis Tsaldaris and his cabinet resigned after word was received that the opposition parties had withdrawn their confidence.[45] A vote of no-confidence followed the next day, and
Eleutherios Venizelos formed a new cabinet on January 16.[46]
January 13, 1933 (Friday)
The
Ilyushin Design Bureau, the Russian aircraft manufacturing company, was established in the Soviet Union by order of P.I. Baranov, at the time the People's Commissar of the Heavy Industry, and Director of the Soviet Department of the Aviation Industry and would be named for aircraft designer
Sergey Ilyushin. [47] After the demise of the Soviet Union, the company was acquired by the privately-owned
United Aircraft Corporation of Russia.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 274-94 to override President Hoover's veto of the Philippine independence bill, two hours after the veto message was received.[48][49]
England defeated Australia 341–109 at Adelaide before a crowd of 50,962 in the third
crickettest match in the series, with
Harold Larwood using his controversial "
bodyline" bowling and injuring
Bill Woodfull when a ball hit his chest. Two days later a ball from Larwood struck
Bert Oldfield in the head. The
Australian Board of Control protested to the Marylebone Cricket Club, captained by
Douglas Jardine and representing England, on January 18[50] and the practice, serious enough to hurt relations between Australia and the United Kingdom, was banned by English clubs on November 23.[51]
Pope Pius XI declared 1933 to be a Holy Year, in recognition of the 1,900th anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, with the issuance of a bull entitled Quod Nuper ("Since recently..").[52]
The success of the
Nazi Party in elections in the German
Free State of Lippe demonstrated the stability of the Nazis and gave impetus to support for
Adolf Hitler to become Chancellor.[53]
The
Marian apparition referred to as
Our Lady of Banneux was first observed in the village of
Banneux in Belgium. Teenager Mariette Besco reported seeing the Virgin Mary seven more times, with the final occurrence on March 2.[54]
Died:Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, daughter of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and women's rights leader.
January 16, 1933 (Monday)
In his campaign to disperse the
kulaks, independent farmers who were resisting the Soviet campaign for
collective farming, Joseph Stalin ordered the eviction of hundreds of kulak families from the countryside around
Odessa and
Chernigov. This was followed by orders to deport the kulaks from Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Bashkiria, Lower Volga, and 30,000 from the Northern Caucasus. Eventually, more than one million resisters were resettled in Siberia.[55]
The
Buy American Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives as an amendment to the 1934 Treasury and Post Office appropriations bill. It would pass the Senate on February 4 and be signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on his last full day in office.[56]
Born:Susan Sontag, American author, as Susan Rosenblatt in New York City (d. 2004).
Died:Lee Cruce, 70, the second Governor of Oklahoma (1911–1915).
January 17, 1933 (Tuesday)
Following the example of the U.S. House of Representatives on January 13, the
United States Senate voted 66-26 to override President Hoover's veto of the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, passing it into law by a margin of 5 votes. The new law provided for the Philippines to become a self-governing Commonwealth, with full independence in ten years.[49][57]
Outgoing U.S. President Herbert Hoover asked Congress to pass a national sales tax upon all items except food and "cheap clothing", in order to balance the budget and offset a projected deficit of $700 million.[58]
Imre Nagy, the future
Prime Minister of Hungary who would attempt to free his nation from Soviet domination, was first recruited by the Soviet NKVD as an informer, under the code name "Volodya".[59]
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, who received her nickname from her initials as Miriam Amanda Ferguson, took office as the first woman
Governor of Texas. The next day, she fired all 44 of the Texas Rangers.[60]
Angelo Herndon, a 19-year-old African-American and Communist Party member, was convicted of an attempt to incite an insurrection, and sentenced by a state court in Atlanta to 18 years imprisonment.[62] In 1937, the United States Supreme Court declared the Georgia law, which made membership in the Communist Party and solicitation for membership illegal, to be an unconstitutional infringement on the right to free speech, and reversed Herndon's conviction. Herndon's case attracted black membership in the
CPUSA.[63]
Murray Garsson, at that time a special investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, announced that he would seek the deportation of foreign film stars who had been staying in the United States illegally, beginning on January 23. Among the most prominent foreign stars at the time were
Greta Garbo,
Marlene Dietrich,
Maurice Chevalier, and
Maureen O'Sullivan.[64] Fifteen actors who failed to produce their papers were asked to leave the country until they could obtain entrance under the immigration quotas.[65]
Born:John Boorman, English film director (Deliverance, Excalibur and Hope and Glory); in
Shepperton.
January 19, 1933 (Thursday)
The first 100 of 312,500
1933 Double Eagle $20 gold pieces were delivered by the United States Mint to the U.S. Treasurer. Because the coins were never put into circulation, and nearly all would be melted into gold bricks, they became the most rare and valuable of American coins. A single one would sell at a 2002 auction for $7,590,020.[66]
U.S. Senator
Cordell Hull of Tennessee was first offered the position of Secretary of State by President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt. Hull considered the offer for several weeks and then accepted.[67]
Sixty inches of snow fell on the
Giant Forest in
California, an American record for greatest snowfall in one calendar day. The record for 24 hours was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake in
Boulder County, Colorado, during April 14–15, 1921.[68]
Mary, Lady Bailey, British aviator who had disappeared while attempting a solo flight from England to South Africa, was located and rescued after four days in the
Sahara Desert. She had been forced to land 15 miles southwest of
Tahoua, Niger, French West Africa, and was dehydrated and exhausted, but uninjured.[69]
January 20, 1933 (Friday)
In the largest battle up to that time in the
Chaco War, 4,000 troops from
Bolivia stormed the trenches of 10,000
Paraguayan soldiers at
Nanawa.[70]
After the failure of the American Trust Company Bank of Davenport, the
newly inaugurated Governor of Iowa declared a
bank holiday, temporarily closing all of the banks in that state to prevent further withdrawals.
Nevada had declared the first bank holiday on October 31, 1932, and consumer confidence had stabilized after the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President. The Iowa action was followed by more bank failures across the United States, and more temporary closures, with
Louisiana following suit on February 3 and
Michigan on February 14. By March 3, half of the 48 states had declared bank holidays, and President Roosevelt made a nationwide closure on March 6, two days after taking office. A record total of 242 American banks failed in January 1933.[71]
Soviet premier
V. M. Molotov and Party First Secretary
Joseph Stalin issued a decree replacing the prior practice of requiring peasant farmers to deliver a percentage of their grain harvest to the state, replacing it with a flat rate. Under the former rule, "the more they produced, the more the government took".[72]
Died: Lt. Irvin A. Woodring, last of the U.S. Army's "Three Musketeers of Aviation" for their performances at air shows, in an airplane crash. His comrades, Lt. J.J. Williams and Lt. W. L. Cornelius had both been killed in 1928.[73]
January 21, 1933 (Saturday)
The development of what would become the
Tennessee Valley Authority was endorsed by President-elect Roosevelt after he visited
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and told an audience in Montgomery, "My friends, I am determined on two things as a result of what I have seen today. The first is to put Muscle Shoals to work. The second is to make Muscle Shoals a part of an even greater development that will take in all of that magnificent Tennessee River from the mountains of Virginia down to the Ohio and the Gulf..." The result was that electricity was brought to rural areas in seven of the southeastern United States, in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia.[74][75]
January 22, 1933 (Sunday)
In response to the exodus of starving peasants from the
famine in the Ukrainian SSR, Stalin and Molotov issued orders directing the national police and local authorities to "stop, by all means necessary, the large-scale departure of peasants from Ukraine and the Northern Caucasus" in that "this massive exodus of the peasants has been organized by enemies of the Soviet regime". The sale of railway tickets was halted the next day, and barricades were erected to keep peasants from leaving their district of residence.[76]
The
Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified after the legislature of
Missouri became the 36th state to vote in favor of it. The vote in the Missouri House of Representatives came at 10:00 in the morning, when the speaker moved the opening session ahead four hours in order to vote on the amendment ahead of
Massachusetts.[78] Authored by U.S. Senator
George W. Norris of Nebraska, and submitted to the states in 1932 after overwhelming approval by the Senate (63-7) and the House (336-56), the amendment changed the Presidential inauguration from March 4 to January 20. It also changed the date of inauguration Congress members, from March 4 to January 3, and changed the opening day of Congress from "the first Monday in December" to January 3 as well. Prior to the change, members who had been defeated in November elections were able to continue meeting for 13 months.[79] Senator Norris had first proposed an amendment that the U.S. Senate had approved, 63 to 6, on February 13, 1923, that would have set the beginning of the new presidential and vice-presidential terms on "the third Monday in January following their election", and for Congress to be the first Monday in January [80] but the legislation had not been voted on in the House.
The boundary dispute between
Guatemala and
Honduras was settled after nearly 95 years, when the Special Boundary Tribunal issued an arbitration award. Prior attempts to settle the dispute had failed in 1845, 1895 and 1914, until the two nations agreed to submit the dispute on July 16, 1930.[81]
Born:Chita Rivera, American stage actress and dancer, 2-time Tony Award winner, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom; (as Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero), in
Washington, D.C.
January 24, 1933 (Tuesday)
The Central Committee of the CPSU began a purge of the Ukrainian Communist Party by Russia—the first secretaries in three of the seven oblasts were replaced by the Soviet party, with the main change being to replace Roman Terekhov as the Kharkov party boss by
Pavel Postyshev. Throughout the year, 5,000 Ukrainian Party workers were replaced by outsiders.[82]
In
parliamentary elections in the Irish Free State,
Éamon de Valera's
Fianna Fáil party won 77 of the 153 total seats in the
Dáil Éireann, with the remainder going to
Cumann na nGaedheal (48), the National Centre Party (11), independent candidates (9), and Labour (8). "With a fuller parliamentary majority" an author later wrote, "de Valera was able to abolish the Oath of Allegiance (1933), the Senate (June 1936), university representation in the Dáil (1934-36), all references to the monarch in the Constitution (December 1936, in the aftermath of the abdication of Edward VIII), and the Governor General (1937). A new Constitution was then put to referendum."[83]
January 25, 1933 (Wednesday)
Barrandov Studios, which would become the major film studio for Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, was formed in Prague.[84]
Alva Belmont, 80, American suffragist and philanthropist.
January 26, 1933 (Thursday)
The
League of Nations Council cabled an order to the government of
Peru to refrain from a planned invasion of
Colombia in a dispute over the municipality of
Leticia, citing Peru's duty as a League member.[85]
January 27, 1933 (Friday)
After a walkout of 6,000
Briggs Manufacturing Company workers, who manufactured automobile bodies, the Ford Motor Company closed its American factories indefinitely, putting 100,000 people out of work, as well as 50,000 in supplying factories.[86]
January 28, 1933 (Saturday)
Choudhary Rahmat Ali published the pamphlet
"Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish For Ever?", proposing to separate the 30,000,000 Muslim residents of
British India from the Hindu and coined the name for the future nation—Pakistan—albeit as "Pakstan" from "the five Northern units of India" (Punjab, Afghan Province, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan)".[87] "Pak" and "stan" were also the
Persian language words for "pure" and "land".
Kurt von Schleicher resigned as
Chancellor of Germany,[88] after President Hindenburg refused to grant him dictatorial powers to manage the nation's economic crisis and after being unable to form a coalition government.[89] Hindenburg attempted to persuade
Franz von Papen to succeed Schleicher, but Papen declined, leaving Adolf Hitler as Hindenburg's choice.
In a vote of no confidence, the French Chamber of Deputies voted 390–193 against the government of Premier
Joseph Paul-Boncour, who then resigned.[90]
January 29, 1933 (Sunday)
Édouard Daladier was asked by President LeBrun of France to become the new Prime Minister and to form a new government. Daladier, who had been the French Minister of War, accepted and formed a new cabinet of ministers.[91]
The Lone Ranger made a debut, originally as a radio program on station WXYZ in
Detroit. Writer Fran Striker and station owner George Trendle created the adventure of the masked man who brought justice to the American West. The program, heard on a clear channel station, would be picked up nationwide by the Mutual Broadcasting System and was notable for its use of the
William Tell Overture as its
theme music, and its catch phrases "Hi-yo, Silver!" and "Who was that masked man?"[93]
January 31, 1933 (Tuesday)
The day after Adolf Hitler and his coalition partners formed the new ministry, the Reichstag was dissolved and new elections were called for March 5.[94]
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^David Fleminger, Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (30° South Publishers, 2008), pp. 84–5
^Benjamin R. Beede, The War of 1898, and U.S. interventions, 1898-1934: an encyclopedia (Taylor & Francis, 1994), p. 379
^"Lehman Takes Office Today as Governor", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 2, 1933, p. 2
^"TROJANS EASILY DEFEAT PANTHERS BY 35 TO 0", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 3, 1933, p. 1
^"Actor Plunges to His Death", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 2, 1933, p. 1
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^Dermot Keogh, Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church-State Relations, 1922-1960 (Cork University Press, 1995), p. 101; "Irish Political Conflict Begins", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 3, 1933, p. 2
^Robert Frank Futrell, Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force (Volume 1) (Air University Press, 1989), p. 66
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^"Cuno Falls Dead on Steps of Home", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 3, 1933, p. 3
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^"Electors Will Vote for Roosevelt Today; Congress Is Slated for Joint Session Feb. 8 to Certify Presidential Choice", New York Times, January 4, 1933
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^Mick Sinclair, San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary History (Interlink Books, 2004), pp. 131-2; Rand Richards, Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide (Heritage House Publishers, 2007), p. 202
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^William B. Breuer,J. Edgar Hoover and His G-men (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995), p. 61
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^George Bibel, Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
^"Famed Pianist Buried With Simplest Rites", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 9, 1933, p. 2
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^
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^"House Blocks Veto; Filipino Bill In Senate- Hoover Objections Are Quickly Set Aside In Lower Branch", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 14, 1933, p. 1
^
abPaul H. Kratoska, South East Asia, Colonial History: Imperial Decline: Nationalism and the Japanese Challenge (1920s-1940s) (Taylor & Francis, 2001), p. 129
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^Steven Lynch, Wisden on the Ashes: The Authoritative Story of Cricket's Greatest Rivalry (A&C Black, 2009) p224
^"Pope Ordains Year of Peace", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 16, 1933, p. 1
^Wolfgang Benz and Thomas Dunlap, A Concise History of the Third Reich (University of California Press, 2006), p. 17
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^"Filipino Bill Enacted Over Hoover Veto", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 1933, p. 1
^"Tax on Sales to Balance Budget Urged by Hoover", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 1933, p. 1
^Charles Gati, Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (Stanford University Press, 2006), p. 34
^Mike Cox, Time of the Rangers: Texas Rangers: From 1900 to the Present (Macmillan, 2010), p. 154
^"Auto Kills Noted Astronomer", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 1933, p. 1
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^"U.S. Acts to Deport Movie Stars Here Illegally", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 19, 1933, p.2
^"Foreign Stars' Exodus Begun", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 28, 1933, p. 1
^David Tripp, Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle (Simon and Schuster, 2004), p. 124
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^"Find Aviatrix Lost in Desert", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 20, 1933, p. 1
^"Biggest Battle in Gran Chaco", Milwaukee Journal, January 22, 1933, p. 2
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^"Soviets Will 'Tax' Peasants in Grain", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 21, 1933, p. 2
^"Last of Airplane 'Musketeers' Dies", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 21, 1933, p. 1
^"U.S. to Run Shoals Plant, Roosevelt Says", Milwaukee Journal, January 22, 1933, p. 1
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