October 1933 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1933 Antwerp Sports arena opens
• 03 Oct 1933 Gustave Staf de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
• 04 Oct 1933 Esquire magazine is 1st published
• 07 Oct 1933 New York Giants beat Washington Senators, four games to one in 30th World Series.
• 08 Oct 1933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
• 10 Oct 1933 1st synthetic detergent, Dreft by Procter and Gamble, goes on sale
• 12 Oct 1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially).
• 13 Oct 1933 Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren
• 14 Oct 1933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
• 15 Oct 1933 Philadelphia Eagles play first NFL game, lose to New York Giants 56-0.
• 17 Oct 1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
• 19 Oct 1933 Berlin Olympic Committee votes to introduce basketball in 1936.
• 22 Oct 1933 Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 26 Oct 1933 French government of Serraut forms

Famous Birthday

• Francisco Gento

  Soccer Player.

• Ronald Kray

  English gangster (d. 1995).

• Manuel Garrincha
• The Singing Nun
• Reginald Kray

  English gangster (d. 2000).

• Jean-Marie Pelt

  Pharmacy professor, botanist, ecologist and toxicologist.

• Antoine Prost
• Jay Sebring

  American beautician who owned an up-scale salon in Hollywood.

• Andrée Lajoie
• Pierre Fabre (actor)
• Grégoire Lacroix
• Duska Sifnios
• Jack Haley Jr
• Frances Scully

  American astrologer with degrees in political science 1955, psychology 1967 and 1969, and family counseling 1978.

• Bill Anders

  American astronaut.

• Bill Tidy

  English cartoonist (Fosdyke Saga).

• Guy Chauvet

  Montluéon Opera Singers.

• Peter Mansfield

  English physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate.

• William Bowen

  American university president, economist.

• Guido Molinari

  Canadian painter and art collector (d. 2004).

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Famous Deaths

• Meir Shapira

  Rabbi / organizer (Daf Yomi).

• Nikolaj N Joedenitsj

  Russian General / contra revolutionary, dies at 71.

• Renee Adoree

  Actress (Big Parade), dies at 35.

• Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili

  Composer, dies at 62.

• Josef Hofmiller

  Writer.

• Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich

  Russian general (Born 1862).

• John Lister

  English politician (Born 1847).

• Albert Calmette

  French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute.

• Paul Painleve

  French mathematician and politician (Born 1853).

• Julius Klengel

  German cellist and composer (d. 1933).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

1. Ray Noble & His Orchestra - The Old Spinning Wheel