March 1933

Thursday 02:

King Kong premieres in New York City.

Friday 03:

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.

Saturday 04:

Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism)

Sunday 05:

In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.

Thursday 09:

Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.

Friday 10:

An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.

Sunday 12:

Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."

Monday 13:

Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re-open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday".

Monday 20:

1933 – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

Wednesday 22:

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.

Thursday 23:

The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

Friday 31:

The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.