December 1933

Tuesday 05:

Prohibition ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 3/4th of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).

Wednesday 06:

U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce novel Ulysses is not obscene

Thursday 21:

Newfoundland becomes a crown colony

Tuesday 26:

FM radio is patented