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March 9, 1933 (Thursday) The government of the German state of Bavaria was overthrown by Nazi troops, on the grounds that Minister-President Heinrich Held was unable to maintain order. Governance of the former "free state" was assumed by Nazi MP Franz Ritter von Epp, whom Hitler appointed as Reichsstatthalter.
The main shock occurred at 02:31 AM local time on March 3, 1933 (17:31 UTC March 2, 1933), and measured 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale. [2] It was in approximately the same location as the 1896 Sanriku earthquake and it occurred far enough away from the town that shaking did little damage.
October–December. December 5, 1933: Sloppy Joe's Bar opens in Key West, Florida (1986 photo) October 7 – The New York Giants (baseball) defeat the Washington Senators, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series title. October 10 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed near Chesterton, Indiana, by a bomb.
The 100th day of his presidency was June 12, 1933. On July 25, 1933, Roosevelt gave a radio address in which he coined the term "first 100 days." [1] [3] Looking back, he began, "we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to ...
1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1933rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 933rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1930s decade.
1 March – Hundreds are arrested as the Nazis round up their political opponents. 5 March – German federal election, March 1933: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes. 8 March – Nazis occupy the Bavarian State Parliament and expel deputies. 12 March – Hindenburg bans the flag of the republic and orders the Imperial and Nazi flag to ...
The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch[ 1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States, to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator. [ 2][ 3] Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy ...
t. e. Hitler's Reichstag speech promoting the bill was delivered at the Kroll Opera House, following the Reichstag fire. The Enabling Act of 1933 ( German: Ermächtigungsgesetz ), officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich ( lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich ' ), [ 1] was a law that gave the German ...