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1933:
January 30 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
February 27 - Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire (see: Reichstag fire).
March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
April 26 - Gestapo established.
May 2 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
June 21 - All non-Nazi parties forbidden in Germany
July 14 - Forming new political parties forbidden in Germany.
September 12 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
October 16 - Germany announces intention to leave the League of Nations - officially
Busy year...
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Indeed, Hitler moves fast.
1932 - Total Solar Eclipse!
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1931 - Deuterium discovered.
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March 2 - Mohandas Gandhi informs British viceroy of India that civil disobedience would begin nine days later
March 12 - Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt - more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5
July 26 - Charles Creighton and James Hargis of Missouri begin their return journey to Los Angeles - driving 11 555 km using only a reverse gear. The trip lasts the next 42 days
August 9 - Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
October 5 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage. (This is interesting, because it was claimed to have been witnessed by a psychic, who lead authorites to the downed craft.)
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1929 - May 16
First Academy Awards
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1928 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July. If you understand that sentence, you qualify for an EU pasport. Or maybe a trip to Kolkata.
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1927- the great mississippi flood.
that, and my grandpop was born. :)
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1926
April 21 - Princess Elizabeth born in London
May 18 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach. (In a shocking scandal, she is discovered later, and claims kidnapping, later proven to be false, she was with a lover.)
October 31 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured
December 3 - Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found in Harrogate hotel
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1925 - Bennito Mussolini gains dictatorial control over all of Italy. Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf and F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby (one of my favorite books). John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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1924
January 21 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
February 8 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch. However he was only in jail for nine months.
June 2 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. (So kind of him to declare them citizens of what was once their own country!)
June 8 - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers were never seen alive again (Note the word alive. The bodies were found but for an unexplained reason, their camera was missing. This was the one piece of evidence that would have proved whether or not they made it to the peak. Hummmm.)
November 19 - In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
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1923
March 9 - Vladimir Len suffers third stroke (unfortunately, he didn't die...)
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1922 - February 2
Ulysses by James Joyce is published in Paris
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1921
June 23 - Emir Faisal crowned King of Iraq
August 31 - official end of the Great War
Nov 21 - Afghan treaty signed
Dec 23 - Mr Newman makes break of 1274 at billiards.
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1920
the year prohibition went into effect.
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1919 - Communists take control of Berlin for seven days. Arthur Eddington tests and confirms Albert Einstein's theory of general realtivity. The Treaty of Versailles is signed ending WWI. Health officials declare the Spanish Flu pandemic over.
