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News and Events of 1933

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Sir Norman Angell (UK)

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President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 125,578,763

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Giuseppe Zangara executed for attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt in which Chicago Mayor Cermak is fatally shot. Background: Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865
Roosevelt inaugurated (“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”); launches New Deal.
Prohibition repealed. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Glass-Steagall Act bans banks from dealing in stocks and bonds.

Federal spending:   $4.60 billion
Consumer Price Index:   13
Unemployment:   25.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.03

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NY Giants d. Washington (4-1)

NY Rangers d. Toronto (3-1)

Women: Helen Moody d. D. Round (6-4 6-8 6-3)
Men: Jack Crawford d. E. Vines (4-6 11-9 6-2 2-6 6-4)

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Michigan (8-0-0)

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Store, T. S. Stribling
Drama: Both Your Houses, Maxwell Anderson

Academy Award, Best Picture: No ceremony was held this year. Films from 1933 were honored in 1934.

Nobel Prize for Literature: Ivan G. Bunin (Russia)

Miss America: Marion Bergeron (CT)

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Edwin Armstrong introduces frequency modulation (FM), a static-free method of transmission.
Esquire debuts as the first men's magazine.
Laurens Hammond introduces his Hammond organ.
Sally Rand's fan dance is a hit at the Chicago World's Fair.

Chemistry: None awarded

Physics: Erwin Schrödinger (Austria) and Paul A. M. Dirac (UK), for discovery of new fertile forms of the atomic theory

Physiology or Medicine: Thomas H. Morgan (US), for discoveries on hereditary function of the chromosomes

Edwin Armstrong devises frequency modulations (FM) which permit radio reception without static.
A.A. Michelson's work on the speed of light is completed posthumously.