December 1933 calendar

Events

• 03 Dec 1933 Joe Lilliard QBs Chicago Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
• 04 Dec 1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
• 05 Dec 1933 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32pm EST)
• 06 Dec 1933 U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
• 09 Dec 1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard.
• 14 Dec 1933 Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
• 15 Dec 1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15.
• 16 Dec 1933 Abe de Vries and Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
• 17 Dec 1933 NFL starts keeping official statistics as Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 23-21 in championship game.
• 19 Dec 1933 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized.
• 20 Dec 1933 Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire.
• 21 Dec 1933 Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania.
• 23 Dec 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
• 24 Dec 1933 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France).
• 25 Dec 1933 Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett.
• 26 Dec 1933 FM radio is patented.
• 29 Dec 1933 Members of the Iron Guard assassinate Ion Gheorghe Duca, prime minister of Romania.
• 30 Dec 1933 Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service.

Famous Birthday

• Akihito

  Japanese royalty, the son of Emperor Hirohito.

• François de Closets
• Horst Buchholz

  German actor occasionally seen internationally, as in "Nine Hours To Rama," 1963.

• Lou Rawls

  American musician whose deep voice, handsome appearance, and versatile vocal talents earned him a place in American music.

• Tim Conway

  American actor and comedian, a writer-director with Cleveland TV station before establishing himself as a comic performer on the "Steve...

• Charles Fiterman

  French politician.

• Bernard Haller

  Swiss comedian, actor and humorist.

• Flip Wilson

  American comedian, the first black comic to transcend race lines with his own TV variety show using material that was universal, funny to...

• Maurizio Arena

  Italian film actor who appeared in 78 films between 1952 and 1978.

• Pierre Albaladejo

  French rugby player, nicknamed ‘’Mr.

• Manu Dibango
• Curro Romero

  Spanish bullfighter, one of the most famous toreros of the 20th century.

• Nicholas Fairbairn

  Scottish politician, a Conservative Member of Parliament, returned at General Election 6/11/1987.

• Michael Larrabee
• Cicely Tyson
• Annagemma Angelini

  Italian journalist and musical critic.

• Gloria Romero (actress)
• Marcelin Pleynet
• Michel Beaune
• Gordon Getty

  American entrepreneur and noted family, the fourth son of John Paul Getty with his fourth wife, Ann Rork.

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Famous Deaths

• Josef Gruber

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Lunatscharski

  Writer.

• Auguste Chapuis

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Theodore Moses Tobani

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Richard Henry Warren

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Emile C Wauters

  Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at age 87.

• Hans Vaihinger

  German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at age 81.

• Knud J V Rasmussen

  Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at age 54.

• Joh Georghe Duca

  premier of Romania, murdered.

• Thubten Gyatso

  13th Dalai Lama (Born 1876).

• George Jackson Churchward

  British locomotive engineer (Born 1857).

• Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen

  Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist (Born 1879).

• Henry Watson Fowler

  English schoolmaster and lexicographer (Born 1858).

• Stefan George

  German romantic poet noted for his homo-erotic work.

• Anatoly Lunacharsky

  Russian literary critic and politician (Born 1875).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
2. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (Vocal Jack Teagarden) - Ain't Cha Glad?
3. Freddy Martin & His Orchestra - April in Paris
4. Bing Crosby - Temptation