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.
(Friday, May 12, 1933; part of the New Deal in response to the Great Depression) — The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was signed into law today by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, giving the federal government the power to raise farm prices and to provide relief on farm mortgage foreclosures. Also known as the “Wagner Act”, the bill provided $500 million for farm relief.
Signed on the same day was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), which would eventually spend four billion dollars to create job programs for unemployed U.S. workers.
Video: 'The World at War - Episode 1 - A New Germany' (May Day 1933 at 8:13)
(Monday, May 1, 1933) — The Nazis celebrated its brand-new official Labor Day holiday today with joyful events across Germany, most notably with a giant party on the grounds of Tempelhof airport in Berlin. The next day, however, it abruptly banned the trade unions, as police and Gestapo units raided union offices and confiscated their property.
Video: 'FDR Ends Gold Standard in 1933'
(Wednesday, April 19, 1933; during the Great Depression) — President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard today by ordering that gold exports to other nations be halted. The effect would be to devalue the U.S. dollar by 36% (against gold-backed currencies) over the next eight months. However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had increased by 55% on July 18, 1933.
Video: 'The CCC' (parts 1-5)
(Friday, March 31, 1933; during the Great Depression) — President Franklin D. Roosevelt today signed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments.
