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| 1933 |
| | | Lloyd Bacon directs 42nd Street, a classic backstage movie about putting a musical comedy on Broadway | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Japan announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations after a resolution is passed declaring the Japanese occupation of Manchuria illegal | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Adolf Hitler passes a law forcing the 'retirement' of all Jews working in the civil service, schools and universities | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The new Nazi government closes down Germany's distinguished school of modern art and architecture, the Bauhaus | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Alexander Korda directs Charles Laughton in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Fulgencio Batista, as army chief of staff, begins a long career running the affairs of Cuba | |
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| 1933 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war | |
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| 1933 |
| | | US actress Katherine Hepburn wins the first of four Oscars in only her second film, Morning Glory | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the largest project launched in the first hundred days of Roosevelt's New Deal | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance together for the first time on film, in Flying Down to Rio | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Unknown American blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, or Leadbelly, is first recorded singing in the Louisiana State Penitentiary | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Pylon group of British poets get their name from Stephen Spender's poem 'The Pylons' | |
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| 1933 |
| | | King Kong, an enduringly successful horror film, is based on a story by Edgar Wallace | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Draughtsman Harry Beck, inspired by electrical circuits, produces a classic map of London's underground | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Fine Gael is the name given to a new political party in Ireland, formed by the merger of several smaller groups | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Hutus and Tutsis of Ruanda-Urundi are issued with racial identity cards by the Belgians | |
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| 1933 |
| | | English author Antonia White publishes an autobiographical first novel, Frost in May | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Erskine Caldwell publishes a novel, God's Little Acre, about a farmer obsessed with finding gold on his farm | |
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| 1933 |
| | | George Balanchine, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborate in Paris on Seven Deadly Sins, a ballet with songs | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Nazi government dismisses Konrad Adenauer from all his appointments, included that of Lord Mayor of Cologne | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Arabella, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is first performed four years after von Hofmannsthal's death left it incomplete | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Marx Brothers make their last film as a foursome, Duck Soup, with Zeppo still in the team | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Germany becomes a one-party state, with only the Nazis allowed to engage in political activity | |
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| 1933 |
| | | García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Thomas Mann leaves Germany and moves to Switzerland, where he engages in a steady polemic against the Nazis | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Mae West gives Cary Grant his big break, choosing him as her co-star in She Done Him Wrong | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Adolf Hitler, the new German chancellor, pulls Germany out of the League of Nations and its disarmament conference | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Adolf Hitler wins massive referendum support for his withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Fritz Lang's film The Testament of Dr Mabuse is banned in Germany because of implicit criticism of Nazi thugs | |
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| 1933 |
| | | 19-year-old Mexican poet Octavio Paz publishes his first collection, Wild Moon | |
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| 1933 |
| | | J. Arthur Rank founds the Religious Film Society to make films in Britain that will bring people to Christianity | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The first Dinky Toys cars go on sale in Britain, originally under the name Modelled Miniatures | |
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| 1933 |
| | | 25% of workers in Canada are unemployed as the Depression continues to deepen | |
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| 1933 |
| | | In Down and Out in Paris and London English author George Orwell writes a sympathetic account of the people he meets on hard times | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Arnold Schoenberg leaves his teaching post in Germany, now under Nazi control, and in 1934 settles in Los Angeles | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Dmitry Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has its premiere in Leningrad's Maly Theatre | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Nazi architect Albert Speer designs a spectacular new setting for the party's annual Nuremberg rally | |
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| 1934 |
| | | US author Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel Tender Is the Night | |
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| 1934 |
| | | US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate | |
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| 1934 |
| | | The Indian Reorganization Act restores tribal ownership of land in the US reservations | |
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| 1934 |
| | | German photographer Leni Riefenstahl glorifies Hitler and the Nuremberg rally in her film Triumph of the Will | |
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| 1934 |
| | | The first opera festival at Glyndebourne, a country house in Sussex, opens with a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Five girls are born as quintuplets in the Dionne family of French Catholic farmers in Corbeil, Ontario | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Anastasio Somoza, commander of the National Guard, organizes a coup in Nicaragua | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Benito Mussolini plays host in Venice to Adolf Hitler, the newcomer among European dictators | |
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| 1934 |
| | | British tennis player Fred Perry wins the first of three consecutive Wimbledon singles titles | |
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| 1934 |
| | | British painter Francis Bacon has his first solo show in London | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie discover artificial radioactivity | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Erich Korngold, one of Austria's most admired composers, moves to Hollywood | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Elijah Muhammad takes control of the Nation of Islam, or Black Muslims, and leads the movement for more than 40 years | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Adolf Hitler visits his SA commander, Ernst Roehm, in his hotel before having him shot | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Multiple murders are carried out on Hitler's orders during the Night of the Long Knives | |
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| 1934 |
| | | In addition to the SS, Heinrich Himmler is given command of the state secret police, or Gestapo | |
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| 1934 |
| | | The Scottish National Party, or SNP, is founded to campaign for an independent Scotland | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Australian author Christina Stead publishes a first novel based on her own family, Seven Poor Men of Sydney | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grapelli form the Quintet du Hot Club de France | |
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| 1934 |
| | | The Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is assassinated by Nazis in a coup that fails | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Kurt von Schuschnigg succeeds the murdered Dollfuss as Austria's chancellor and Hitler's opponent | |
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| 1934 |
| | | In Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour two teachers are maliciously accused of lesbianism by one of their pupils | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Paul von Hindenburg dies, enabling Adolf Hitler to combine the roles of president, chancellor and supreme commander of the German armed forces | |
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| 1934 |
| | | In I, Claudius the autobiography of the Roman emperor is ghost-written by Robert Graves | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Sergei Rachmaninov writes the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in his villa beside Lake Lucerne | |
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| 1934 |
| | | 6-year-old Shirley Temple wins instant fame after starring in Stand up and Cheer | |
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| 1934 |
| | | The US military government is finally withdrawn from Haiti after nineteen years | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup provide a modernist pool for the penguins in London Zoo | |
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