Timeline November 1933

Events in November 1933 9

• 1853 – 1933 Émile Roux (1853-1933) Died 3 November 1933, aged 79 French physician and colleague of Louis Pasteur who helped develop diphtheria antitoxin treatment. He directed the Pasteur Institute from 1904.
• 1883 – 1933 Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883-1933) Died 8 November 1933, aged 50 King of Afghanistan from 1929, when he ended the civil war that followed Amanullah Khan's fall. He was assassinated in Kabul and succeeded by his son Zahir Shah.
• 1884 – 1933 Texas Guinan (1884-1933) Died 5 November 1933, aged 49 American actress and nightclub hostess who ran some of the best-known speakeasies of the Prohibition era. She greeted customers with 'Hello, suckers!'
• 1933 Century of Progress exposition Chicago World's Fair opens its first season The fair opened on 27 May to mark Chicago's centennial and celebrated scientific and industrial progress. It ran until 12 November and reopened for a second season in 1934.
• 1933 The Nobel Prize for 1932 For the creation of quantum mechanics The award had been held over a year. Einstein had nominated him, Born and Jordan in 1928.
• 1933 United States recognises the Soviet Union Washington and Moscow establish diplomatic relations Diplomatic relations were established on 16 November through an exchange of letters between Roosevelt and Maxim Litvinov. It ended sixteen years of US non-recognition of the Soviet government.
• 1933 Duck Soup released Marx Brothers' political satire opens Paramount released Duck Soup on 17 November. It flopped at first but is now regarded as the Marx Brothers' finest film.
• 1933 Spanish general election Right-wing parties win the first vote in which Spanish women took part The election on 19 November was the first in which Spanish women could vote. The right-wing CEDA became the largest party, beginning a two-year conservative period in the Second Republic.
• 1933 Billie Holiday makes her first recording With Benny Goodman Discovered by John Hammond, she records with Benny Goodman.