MultiEducator · The 20th Century Almanac
HistoryCentral Est. 1996
3320th C.
1933
The 20th Century Almanac · The Thirties

1933

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Hitler became German chancellor and the Reichstag fire and Dachau opened the Nazi era, while Roosevelt launched the New Deal in his "Hundred Days" amid a banking crisis. Prohibition ended, and King Kong climbed the Empire State Building.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
Bunin
World Series
New York Giants vs. Washington Twins Ser
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1933

Champions

Stanley CupN.Y. Rangers vs. Toronto Maple Leafs Series: 3-1 US Open Golf: Johnny Goodman Score: 287 Course: North Shore GC Location: Glenview, IL
World SeriesNew York Giants vs. Washington Twins Series: 4-1

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. Animal Kingdom
  2. Be Mine Tonight
  3. Cavalcade
  4. 42nd Street
  5. Gold Diggers
  6. I'm No Angel
  7. The Kid from Spain
  8. Little Women
  9. Rasputin and the Empress
  10. State Fair (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); © 1996-2025

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
Literature
BUNIN, IVAN ALEKSEYEVICH, stateless domicile in France, b. 1870, (in Voronezh, Russia), d. 1953: "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing"
Peace
Council. Author of the book The Great Illusion, among others
Physiology or Medicine
MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT, U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, b. 1866, d. 1945: "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity"
Physics
SCHR…DINGER, ERWIN, Austria, Berlin University, Germany, b. 1887, d. 1961; and DIRAC, PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE, Great Britain, Cambridge University, b. 1902, d.1984: "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"

Pulitzer Prizes