Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. Date: September 13, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 13 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. Date: September 12, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 12 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq. Date: September 8, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 8 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m). Date: September 3, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 3 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage. Date: August 31, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 31 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein. Date: August 27, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 27 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
Nazi Germany and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the Haavara Agreement. The agreement was a major factor in breaking the anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 and facilitated Jewish emigration from Germany and into British Mandate of Palestine. Date: August 25, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 25 📅 Events on…
The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people. Date: August 25, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 25 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane. Date: August 24, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 24 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the 'eighth great power'. Date: August 18, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 18 📅 Events on this day in 1933…