Timeline Sunday 19 March 1933

Events on Sunday 19 March 1933 2

• 1933 – 2018 Philip Roth (1933-2018) Died 22 May 2018, aged 85 American novelist celebrated for works including Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral and The Human Stain. He won nearly every major American literary award, though never the Nobel Prize in Literature. His fiction often explored Jewish-American identity and postwar society.
• 1933 Portugal's Estado Novo constitution Salazar's authoritarian regime formalised A new constitution was approved in a plebiscite on 19 March and came into force on 11 April. It established the Estado Novo, which ruled Portugal until 1974.