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1933
 
   
Unknown American blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, or Leadbelly, is first recorded singing in the Louisiana State Penitentiary      
1933
 
     
Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas        
1933
 
    
The Pylon group of British poets get their name from Stephen Spender's poem 'The Pylons'       
1933
 
   
King Kong, an enduringly successful horror film, is based on a story by Edgar Wallace      
1933
 
    
Draughtsman Harry Beck, inspired by electrical circuits, produces a classic map of London's underground       
1933
 
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Fine Gael is the name given to a new political party in Ireland, formed by the merger of several smaller groups      
1933
 
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The Hutus and Tutsis of Ruanda-Urundi are issued with racial identity cards by the Belgians       
1933
 
    
English author Antonia White publishes an autobiographical first novel, Frost in May       
1933
 
    
Erskine Caldwell publishes a novel, God's Little Acre, about a farmer obsessed with finding gold on his farm       
1933
 
     
George Balanchine, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborate in Paris on Seven Deadly Sins, a ballet with songs