Video: 'Dinner at Eight' trailer
(Thursday, March 9, 1933) — Dinner at Eight, a comedy/drama film about a high-society dinner party that masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue, premiered today at the Rivoli in New York City.
Directed by George Cukor, the film starred Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe and Billie Burke.
Video: '1933 Wiley Post makes First solo flight around the world newsreel archival footage'
(Saturday, July 22, 1933, 11:59:30 p.m. local time) — Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world tonight, traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes and landing 30 seconds before midnight at New York’s Floyd Bennett Field, where he had departed on July 15.
Video: 'Popeye the Sailor 001 (Betty Boop) - Popeye the Sailor'
(Friday, July 14, 1933) — Cartoon character Popeye the Sailor made his movie debut today in the Fleischer Studios animated short Popeye the Sailor.
(Friday, July 14, 1933) — The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses) was decreed today in Nazi Germany, initially providing for the compulsory sterilization of persons with mental retardation (“hereditary feeblemindedness”), bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, epilepsy, and persons born with handicaps.
Video: 'Midsummer Classics: 1933'
(Thursday, July 6, 1933) — The American League today won the 1933 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the first ever, beating the National League 4-2 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Babe Ruth, 38, famously hit the first home run in All-Star Game history, putting the AL up 3-0 in the third inning.
Video: 'Rise and Fall of the National Industrial Recovery Act'
(Friday, June 16, 1933); part of the New Deal in response to the Great Depression) — The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt today after being passed by the U.S. Congress, creating the National Recovery Administration (NRA). The Act, however, would be later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Video: 'THREE LITTLE PIGS 1933'
(Saturday, May 27, 1933) — Walt Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated short The Three Little Pigs, about a hungry wolf that blows down some pigs’ houses, was first released today. Directed by Burt Gillett, the film was animated by Fred Moore, Art Babbitt, Dick Lundy and Norm Ferguson.
Video: '1933 Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair - Part 1'
(Saturday, May 27, 1933) — The Chicago World’s Fair, celebrating “A Century of Progress,” officially opened today to celebrate the city’s centennial. Continue reading Chicago World’s Fair celebrating ‘A Century of Progress’ opens 80 years ago today (1933)
Video: 'Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No 1 (T For Texas)'
(Friday, May 26, 1933) — The man credited with being country music’s first superstar died today of tuberculosis from a pulmonary hemorrhage while staying at the Taft Hotel in New York City at the age of 35. Jimmie Rodgers’ first million-seller was “T for Texas,” also known as “Blue Yodel.”
Video: 'US News & World Report 75th Anniversary'
(Wednesday, May 17, 1933) — U.S. News & World Report had its beginnings today as David Lawrence began publishing a weekly newspaper called United States News.
