1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January

• January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
• January 11 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
• January 15 - Political violence causes almost 100 deaths in Spain.
• January 17 - US Congress votes favorably for Philippines independence, against the view of president Hoover.
• January 30 - Edouard Daladier forms a government in France.
• January 30 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
• January 30 - The first airing of episode 1 of 2,956 episodes of the radio program The Lone Ranger.

February

• February 4 - Mutiny starts on the Dutch pantserschip Zeven Provincien.
• February 6 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
• February 6-7 - Officers on the USS Ramapo record a 34 meters high sea-wave in the Pacific Ocean.
• February 10 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
• February 15 - In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead kills Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
• February 17 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
• February 17 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
• February 27 - Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire (see: Reichstag fire).