WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1933
Find out what all happened February to May 1933

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

The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall. (2. March 1933)

Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against the British rule in India. (8. May 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)

Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. (28. February 1933)

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

The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies. (12. May 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)

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

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

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions. (2. May 1933)

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

The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States. (20. February 1933)

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

Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. (17. May 1933)

Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings. (10. May 1933)

The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" (27. May 1933)