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Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, and the first female member of the United States Cabinet. March 5 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13).
1933 was a common year ... United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a national emergency and issues Executive Order 6102, ...
1933 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) * 1933 events in the United States by month (6 C) / 1933 disestablishments in the United States (36 C, 12 P)
1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933. 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code becomes set of industry censorship guidelines governing production of the vast majority of United States motion pictures released by major studios; is effective for 38 years
1933 elections in the United States by state (13 C) 1933 in American sports by state (48 C) A. 1933 in Alabama (4 C) 1933 in Arizona (4 C, 1 P) 1933 in Arkansas (3 C ...
Prohibition in the United States ended in 1933. On December 5, 1933, the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Drought conditions in Oklahoma and Texas caused the Dust Bowl which forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms and seek employment elsewhere.
The first inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd president of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1933, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 37th inauguration, and marked the commencement of the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president and John Nance Garner as vice ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms.