1933 January


January 4th
In 1933, Hitler and Franz von Papen in house Kolner Bankiers.
January 7-12th
In 1933, Stalin directs the work of a joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., CPSU(B).
January 7th
In 1933, Stalin delivers a report on "Results of the First Five-Year Plan" at the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., CPSU(B).
January 11th
In 1933, Stalin delivers a speech on "Work in the Countryside" at the joint plenum of the C.G. and C.C.C., CPSU(B).
On the proposal of J. V. Stalin, the joint plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., CPSU(B) adopts a decision to organize Political Departments of the machine and tractor stations and state farms and to send 17,000 Party workers to the countryside.
January 21st
In 1933, Stalin attends the memorial meeting at the Bolshoi Theatre to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the death of V. I. Lenin.
January 23rd
In 1933, Stalin attends the opening of the Third Session of the C.E.C. of the USSR, Sixth Convocation.
January 26th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin's greetings to the magazine Rabotnitsa on the occasion of its tenth anniversary are published in Pravda, No. 25.
January 29th
In 1933, German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor.
January 30th
In 1933, Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany, national-konservativen Kabinetts with Hermann Goring and Wilhelm Frick.
= Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany, assuming Presidency the following year following the death of Paul Von Hindenburg.
=Hitler made Chancellor Jan. 30, 1933, with the help of von Papen, and sought revision of Versailles system by immediately beginning a rearmament program with the support of industrialists such as Alfred Hugenberg and Gustav Krupp (who by April agreed to remove Jewish workers from his factories), and a public works program announced at the Feb. 11 International Automobile and Motor-Cycle Exhibition in Berlin, to build autobahns with 600,000 workers and make a Volksauto for less than 1000 marks.
January 31st
In 1933, Hitler promises parliamentary democracy.

1933 February


February 2nd
In 1933, Two days after becoming chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered dissolution of the German Parliament.
In 1933, Stalin delivers a speech at the All-Union Conference of the Leninist Young Communist League on the practical tasks of the Y.C.L. in connection with the spring sowing.
February 6th
In 1933, -90 degrees F (-68 degree s C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record).
February 8th
In 1933, -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Seminole, Texas (state record).
February 9th
In 1933, -63 degrees F (-53 degrees C), Moran, Wyoming (state r ecord).
February 10th
In 1933, Hitler proclaims end of Marxism.
February 15-19th
In 1933, Stalin takes part in the work of the First All-Union Congress of Collective-Farm Shock Brigaders.
February 16th
In 1933, Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazi's/communists.
In 1933, Stalin writes a letter to Comrade I. N. Bazhanov.
February 19th
In 1933, Stalin delivers a speech at the First All-Union Congress of Collective-Farm Shock Brigaders.
February 23rd
In 1933, J. V. Stalin's greetings to the Red Army on the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary are published in Pravda, No. 53.
Stalin attends the celebration meeting at the Bolshoi Theatre on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Red Army.
February 25th
In 1933, the first genuine aircraft carrier, the "USS Ragner" was christened.
February 27th
In 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.

1933 March


March 2nd
In 1933, the most powerful earthquake in the last 180 years strikes Japan (8.9 on the Rich ter scale).
March 5th
In 1933, in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
=In the March 5, 1933 elections, the National Socialist German Workers' Party won 43.9% and 288 of 647 seats in the Reichstag.
March 10th
In 1933, a huge 6.3 earthquake shook Long Beach (W.C. Fields was mak ing a movie when it struck & the cameras kept running); 117 people were killed. It was one of the quakes that Dr. Charles Richter studied in devising the "Richter Scale" of earthquake intensity.
March 14th
In 1933, Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense.
In 1933, Stalin attends at the Bolshoi Theatre the meeting of the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S,U.(B), the Central Executive Committee and Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the Executive Committee of the Comintern and the Moscow Committee of the CPSU(B), held in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Karl Marx.
March 20th
In 1933, it is reported that political opponents of the Nazis are being sent to the newly opened Dachau, the first concentration camp built to relieve the bursting jails.
In 1933, Stalin writes an answer to the letter of Mr. Barnes.
March 21st
In 1933, The Malicious Practices Act of March 21, 1933, began the mass arrests of communists and socialists.
March 22nd
In 1933, Dauchau concentration camp was set up in a former powder milk plant, the first concentration camp built to relieve the bursting jails in Germany.
March 23rd
In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.
March 24th
In 1933, forbid Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschland (SPD) and Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands (KPD) in Germany.
March 27th
In 1933, Japan leaves League of Nations.
March 28th
In 1933, German Reichstage confers dictatorial powers to Adolph Hitler.
March 30th
In 1933, The greetings of J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov and K. Y. Voroshilov to the participants in the expedition sent to rescue the icebreaker Malygin arc published in Pravda, No. 88.

1933 April


April 1st
In 1933, Nazi Germany began its persecution of Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
April 4th
In 1933, New Jersey Coast: U.S. dirigible Akron crashed; 73 died.
April 17th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov. K. Y. VoroshiloV. and A. I. Mikoyan wire congratulations to the participants in the expedition of the ice-breaker Krassin on the occasion of the successful completion of its Arctic cruise and its preschedule fulfilment of the government's assignment to render aid to the Arctic workers and population of the island of Novaya Zemlya. The telegram is pub-lished in Pravda, No. 106.
April 26th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin's greetings to Comrade S. M. Budyonny on his fiftieth birthday are published in Pravda, No. 115.

1933 May


May 1st
In 1933, Stalin is present at the May Day military parade of the Moscow Garrison and the demonstration of the working people of the capital in the Red Square.
May 2nd
In 1933, Stalin, together with other leaders of the Party and the Government, receives in the Kremlin participants in the May Day parade.
May 10th
In 1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
May 13th
In 1933, Stalin has a talk with Colonel Robins.
May 16th
In 1933, Moscow lifts ban on jazz.
May 22nd
In 1933, World Trade Day/National Maritime Day was first celebrated.
In 1933, Stalin attends the final concert of the First All-Union Musicians' Contest held in the Large Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire.
May 26th
In 1933, Stalin together with other leaders of the Party and the Government receives in the Kremlin the young prize-winners of the First All-Union Musicians' Contest.

1933 June


June 12th
In 1933, Stalin is present at the sports parade in the Red Square in Moscow.
June 17th
In 1933, Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob.
June 22nd
In 1933, Stalin attends the funeral of Klara Zetkin in the Red Square in Moscow.
June 29th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, together with V. M. Molotov. K. Y. Voroshilov and G. K. Orjonikidze, visits the art exhibition "Fifteen Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army."
June 30th
In 1933, the coast-to-coast temperatures averages 72 degrees, setting the record for the hottest nationwide June reading.

1933 July


July 14th
In 1933, all German political parties, with the exception of the Nazi Party, were outlawed. NSDAP becomes only party in Germany.
In 1933, Stalin takes part in the meeting of the commission of the C.C., CPSU(B) on organisational questions of heavy industry.
July 18th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin and K. Y. Voroshilov arrive in Leningrad and on the same day, together with S. M. Kirov leave on the S.S. Anokhin for a journey through the White Sea-Baltic Canal.
July 18-25th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, K. Y. Voroshilov and S. M. Kirov make a journey on the White Sea-Baltic Canal, acquaint themselves with its hydraulic installations and visit the port of Soroka, the Murmansk Port and Polar Bay.
July 21st
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, Š. Y. Voroshilov and S. M. Kirov in the area of Soroka Port meet a squadron of warships belonging to the Northern Fleet which had crossed from the Baltic to the White Sea via the canal.
Stalin addresses a meeting of Red Navy men on the tasks of the Northern Fleet. After the meeting J. V. Stalin, K. Y. Voroshilov and S. M. Kirov visit the destroyer Uritsky and a submarine.
July 22nd
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, K. Y. Voroshilov and S. M. Kirov arrive at Murmansk and inspect its port and Polar Bay.
July 25th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, K. Y. Voroshilov and S. M. Kirov on their return to Leningrad inspect the port. The same day J. V. Stalin and K. Y. Voroshilov leave for Moscow.

1933 August


August 5th
In 1933, Stalin has a talk with aeronautical designers about new hydroplanes.
August 8th
In 1933, Stalin talks with a group of leading personnel of the Stalin Automobile Works and gives them instructions to master the production of passenger cars.
August 10th
In 1933, Stalin receives in the Kremlin a group of officials of the Moscow Soviet and talks with them about the improvement of road construction in Moscow, Moscow's river embankments and the organization of work at construction sites.
August 11th
In 1933, the temperature reached a world record high 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex.
August 20-23rd
In 1933, J. V. Stalin and K. Y. Voroshilov take a trip on the S.S. Klara Zetkin from Gorky to Stalingrad.
August 23-24th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, K. Y. Voroshilov and S. M. Budyonny visit the Budyonny Stud Farm in the Salsk steppes (Rostov Region).

1933 September


September 27th
In 1933, the Nazis blamed communists for the Reichstag fire.

1933 October


October 3rd
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov. K. Y. Voroshilov and L. M. Kaganovich congratulate the crew of the stratostat USSR on fulfilling the government's assignment regarding the conquest and study of the stratosphere. The congratulations are published in Pravda, No. 273.
J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov, K. Y. Voroshilov and L. M. Kaganovich greet the participants in the Moscow-Kara Kum-Moscow automobile race. The greetings are published in Pravda, No. 273.
October 12th
In 1933, bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff.
October 14th
In 1933, Germany leaves League of Nations.
= Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations and the Geneva Disarmament conference.
October 16th
In 1933, President Roosevelt established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
October 17th
In 1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov. K. Y. Voroshilov and L. M. Kaganovich congratulate the Soviet-salvage engineering experts on their success in raising the ice-breaker Sadko from the bottom of the sea in the Arctic zone. The congratulations are published in Pravda, No. 287.
October 23rd
In 1933, John Dillinger robbed the Central National Bank in Greencastle, IN, of $75,346.
October 29th
In 1933, Stalin's greetings to the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League on its fifteenth anniversary are published in Pravda, No. 299.

1933 November


November 6th
In 1933, Stalin attends the celebration meeting of the Moscow Soviet held in the Bolshoi Theatre on the occasion of the sixteenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 7th
In 1933, Stalin is present at the military parade of the Moscow Garrison and the demonstration of the working people of the capital in the Red Square in honour of the sixteenth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
November 9th
In 1933, Stalin attends the funeral of Sen-Katayama, leader of the Communist Party of Japan, in the Red Square, Moscow.
November 10th
In 1933, Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic.
November 12th
In 1933, Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany.
November 16th
In 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov in which he expressed hope that U.S.-Soviet relations would "forever remain normal and friendly."
November 20th
In 1933, J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov. M. I. Kalinin, and L. M. Kaganovich receive a delegation of collective-farm shock brigaders from the Odessa Region and talk with them on questions of collective-farm-work.
November 29th
In 1933, Stalin talks with a group of architects who have produced designs for the Palace of Soviets.

1933 December


December 1st
In 1933, Rudolf Hess & Earnest Rohm become a minister in Hitler govt.
December 23rd
In 1933, J. V. Stalin and L. M. Kaganovich receive a delegation of collective-farm shock brigaders from the Dnepropetrovsk Region and talk with them on questions of collective-farm development and the supply of manufactured goods to the countryside.
Stalin attends the celebration meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre held in honour of the fifteenth anniversary of the Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TSAGI).
December 25th
In 1933, Stalin has a talk with the New York Times correspondent, Mr. Duranty.
December 26th
In 1933, US foreswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
December 28th
In 1933, Stalin is present at the opening of the Fourth Session of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Sixth Convocation.
Before December 29th
In 1933, Stalin examines and edits the theses of the reports of Comrades Molotov and Kuibyshev on "The Second Five-Year Plan of Development of the National Economy of the USSR (1933-1937)" to the Seventeenth Congress of the CPSU(B). The theses are published in Pravda, No. 359, December 30, 1933.
Army in connection with the Academy's fifteenth anniversary and the award to it of the Order of Lenin are published in Pravda, No. 18.
December 30th
In 1933, -50 degrees F (-46 degrees C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record).


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