WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1933
Find out what all happened April to December 1933

Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger (26. September 1933)

The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane. (24. August 1933)

The Humanist Manifesto I published (1. May 1933)

Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines. (7. October 1933)

The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. (15. December 1933)

New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. (27. May 1933)

The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois. (27. May 1933)

The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman. (1. May 1933)

The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. (16. June 1933)

United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation. (10. October 1933)

Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against the British rule in India. (8. May 1933)

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

The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books. (6. May 1933)

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established. (28. July 1933)

Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m). (3. September 1933)

Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. (22. July 1933)

Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. (12. September 1933)

U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene. (6. December 1933)

The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2. (6. July 1933)

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