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.
Video: 'The World at War - Episode 1 - A New Germany' (Oranienburg concentration camp at 5:45)
(Tuesday, March 21, 1933) — Local SA stormtroopers took over a vacant factory building in the town centre of Oranienburg today and set up the first concentration camp in the state of Prussia.
Video: 'The Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt'
(Monday, March 20, 1933, 9:27 a.m. local time) — The state of Florida electrocuted Giuseppe Zangara today for the shooting death of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak at a Miami event attended by then President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, the presumed target, on February 15, 1933.
Cermak died March 6, 1933, at a Miami hospital at age 59, two days after FDR took office.
Video: '42nd Street Trailer (1933)'
(Thursday, March 9, 1933) — 42nd Street, a musical film about a producer who puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star, premiered today in New York City.
Directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley, the film starred Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers.
Video: 'HD Stock Footage Franklin D. Roosevelt - Bank Holiday - Repeals Prohibition (Mar. 9, 1933, at 1:13)
(Thursday, March 9, 1933; during the Great Depression) — Congress, called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, today began its “hundred days” of enacting New Deal legislation.
Video: 'The Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt'
(Monday, March 6, 1933, 6:57 a.m. local time) — Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, wounded in the February 15, 1933, attempt on then-President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt’s life the previous month, died today at a Miami hospital at age 59, two days after FDR took office.
Gunman Giuseppe Zangara pleaded guilty to Cermak’s murder and was put to death in the electric chair just two weeks later on March 20, 1933.
(Friday, February 17, 1933) — Newsweek was first published today by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign-news editor for Time, under the title “News-Week.”
Video: 'First Lone Ranger!' (parts 1-4)
(Monday, January 30, 1933) — The first episode of The Lone Ranger radio program, about a masked ex-Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West, was broadcast today on station WXYZ in Detroit.
Video: '**** She ** Done ** Him ** Wrong ** (1933) ****'
(Friday, January 27, 1933) — She Done Him Wrong, a romantic comedy film about a saloon singer who fights off smugglers, an escaped con and a Salvation Army officer out to reform her, premiered today in the U.S.
Directed by Lowell Sherman, the film stars Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery, Sr.
(Friday, November 18, 1932) — Grand Hotel, a film about guests at a posh Berlin hotel, was named Best Picture of 1931-32 tonight at the 5th Academy Awards at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Wallace Beery (The Champ) tied for Best Actor and Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet) won Best Actress.
Best Director went to Frank Borzage (Bad Girl).
