WHAT HAPPENED IN 1933.
Look what happened the 1933.

Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. (5. March 1933)

Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies. (9. March 1933)

An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million in damage. (10. March 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". (12. March 1933)

Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday". (13. March 1933)

Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship. (15. March 1933)

Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. (20. March 1933)

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau Concentration Camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant. (20. March 1933)

Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed. (21. March 1933)

The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. (23. March 1933)

The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airline lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board. (28. March 1933)

The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States. (31. March 1933)

The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts. (1. April 1933)

English cricketer Wally Hammond sets a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand. (1. April 1933)

First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston (3. April 1933)

U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather. (4. April 1933)

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. (5. April 1933)

Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (7. April 1933)

Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg. (24. April 1933)

The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. (26. April 1933)

   
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