WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1933
Find out what all happened September to December 1933

Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines. (7. October 1933)

U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene. (6. December 1933)

United States recognizes Soviet Union. (17. November 1933)

Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City. (7. November 1933)

Hugh Gray takes the first known photos alleged to be of the Loch Ness Monster. (12. November 1933)

The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. (15. December 1933)

Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations. (14. October 1933)

Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. (13. September 1933)

Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed. (8. November 1933)

As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don’t shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents. (26. September 1933)

Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha Libre (21. September 1933)

United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation. (10. October 1933)

The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice (12. October 1933)

Germany withdraws from the League of Nations. (19. October 1933)

Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.) (5. December 1933)

Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. (12. September 1933)

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). (3. September 1933)

Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger (26. September 1933)

Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. (17. October 1933)

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