Timeline July 1933

Events in July 1933 11

• 1852 – 1933 Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852-1933) Died 3 July 1933, aged 80 Leader of the Radical Civic Union who was twice president of Argentina. His overthrow in 1930 was the first military coup in modern Argentine history.
• 1863 – 1933 Anthony Hope (1863-1933) Died 8 July 1933, aged 70 English novelist who wrote The Prisoner of Zenda. The book gave the name Ruritania to fictional European kingdoms.
• 1872 – 1933 Mykola Skrypnyk (1872-1933) Died 7 July 1933, aged 61 Ukrainian Bolshevik leader who championed Ukrainisation as Soviet Ukraine's education commissar. He killed himself amid Stalin's purge of Ukrainian national communists.
• 1919 – 1933 Bauhaus School Design Revolution A ground-breaking art school that merged craft and fine arts, influencing modern design globally.
• 1933 London Economic Conference World leaders fail to agree on currency stabilisation Delegates from 66 nations met in London from 12 June to try to revive trade and stabilise currencies. The conference collapsed after Roosevelt rejected currency stabilisation.
• 1933 Wimbledon 1933 Men: Jack Crawford · Women: Helen Wills Moody Wills Moody's 7th title.
• 1933 First Major League Baseball All-Star Game American League beats National League at Comiskey Park The first All-Star Game was played on 6 July in Chicago alongside the Century of Progress exposition. The American League won 4–2, helped by a home run from Babe Ruth.
• 1933 – 2015 Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) Died 30 August 2015, aged 82 Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist and author who wrote bestselling books recounting the case histories of patients with unusual neurological conditions. His works, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, brought neuroscience to a wide popular audience. Awakenings was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film.
• 1933 Nazi Party becomes the only legal party in Germany Law against the formation of new parties makes Germany a one-party state After the remaining parties were banned or dissolved themselves, the law of 14 July made the Nazi Party the sole legal party. On the same day the regime passed its compulsory sterilisation law.
• 1933 Wiley Post's solo round-the-world flight First person to fly solo around the world Wiley Post flew the Winnie Mae around the world alone between 15 and 22 July, taking 7 days and 19 hours. He relied on an autopilot and a radio direction finder.
• 1933 Reichskonkordat signed Treaty between the Holy See and Nazi Germany The concordat signed on 20 July guaranteed the rights of the Catholic Church in Germany in exchange for clergy staying out of politics. It gave Hitler's regime an early boost of international legitimacy.