WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1933
Find out what all happened February to 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Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.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)

The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier. (25. February 1933)

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

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

The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree. (4. March 1933)

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

Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions. (5. March 1933)

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

The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall. (2. March 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. 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)

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

Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign. (20. February 1933)

The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States. (17. February 1933)

In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later. (10. February 1933)

Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire. (27. February 1933)

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

Working as maids, the sisters Christine and Lea Papin murder their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France. The case is the subject of a number of French films and plays. (2. February 1933)