Timeline January 1933

Events in January 1933 14

• 1848 – 1933 Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) Died 17 January 1933, aged 84 American artist and designer famous for his leaded glass lamps and windows. He was a leading figure of the Art Nouveau movement.
• 1852 – 1933 George Moore (1852-1933) Died 21 January 1933, aged 80 Irish novelist whose works include Esther Waters and The Untilled Field. He was a figure of the Irish Literary Revival.
• 1867 – 1933 John Galsworthy (1867-1933) Died 31 January 1933, aged 65 English novelist and playwright best known for The Forsyte Saga. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
• 1872 – 1933 Calvin Coolidge 30th President — Silent Cal, the Roaring Twenties Calvin Coolidge (Jul 4, 1872 – Jan 5, 1933) was the 30th President 1923-1929. He presided over the prosperous Roaring Twenties with a laissez-faire economic policy. Known for his extreme taciturnity — "Silent Cal".
• 1884 – 1933 Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) Died 29 January 1933, aged 48 American lyric poet who won the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry, awarded in 1918 under an earlier name. She died by suicide in New York.
• 1933 Australian Open 1933 Men: Jack Crawford · Women: Joan Hartigan Crawford won his 4th consecutive Australian title.
• 1933 Down and Out in Paris and London published George Orwell's first book appears Published by Victor Gollancz on 9 January, the memoir of poverty was the first work to appear under the pen name George Orwell.
• 1933 Bodyline Test at Adelaide England's leg theory bowling sparks a diplomatic row During the third Ashes Test, from 13 to 19 January, England's short-pitched bowling seriously injured Australian batsmen Bill Woodfull and Bert Oldfield. The Australian Board of Control's protest cable escalated the row into a dispute between the two governments.
• 1933 – 2004 Susan Sontag (1933-2004) Died 28 December 2004, aged 71 Sontag was an American writer and public intellectual known for essays such as "Notes on Camp" and "Regarding the Pain of Others." She was also a prominent political activist and novelist.
• 1933 – 1998 Shari Lewis (1933-1998) Died 2 August 1998, aged 65 Shari Lewis, the American puppeteer and ventriloquist best known for her sock puppet character Lamb Chop, died of pneumonia while being treated for cancer on 2 August 1998. Her children's television programs spanned five decades.
• 1933 Twentieth Amendment ratified US Constitution moves inauguration from March to January The amendment was ratified on 23 January and shortened the lame-duck period between elections and the start of terms. From 1937 presidents were inaugurated on 20 January.
• 1933 – 2009 Corazon Aquino (1933-2009) Died 1 August 2009, aged 76 Aquino served as President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, coming to power after the People Power Revolution that ended Ferdinand Marcos's rule. She was the first female president of the Philippines and a symbol of the country's return to democracy. Her death prompted an outpouring of national mourning.
• 1933 Name 'Pakistan' coined Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes the pamphlet Now or Never Published on 28 January, the pamphlet proposed a separate Muslim homeland in northwestern British India and named it Pakistan. The name was later adopted by the state founded in 1947.
• 1933 – 1945 Adolf Hitler Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler established a totalitarian dictatorship, initiated World War II, and orchestrated the Holocaust.