Timeline May 1933

Events in May 1933 12

• 1873 – 1933 Sándor Ferenczi (1873-1933) Died 22 May 1933, aged 59 Hungarian psychoanalyst and close associate of Sigmund Freud. He is known for his work on trauma and the relationship between analyst and patient.
• 1893 – 1933 Mykola Khvylovy (1893-1933) Died 13 May 1933, aged 39 Leading Ukrainian writer of the 1920s who called for Ukrainian culture to turn towards Europe rather than Moscow. He killed himself in Kharkiv during the famine and the crackdown on Ukrainian intellectuals.
• 1897 – 1933 Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) Died 26 May 1933, aged 35 American singer called the Father of Country Music, famous for his blue yodel. He died of tuberculosis in New York days after his final recording sessions.
• 1933 Modern Loch Ness Monster legend begins Inverness Courier reports a large creature in the loch On 2 May, the Inverness Courier reported a sighting of a large animal in Loch Ness. The report started a wave of public interest that has continued ever since.
• 1933 – 2006 James Brown (1933-2006) Died 25 December 2006, aged 73 James Brown, the American singer known as the "Godfather of Soul," died of heart failure on Christmas Day. His decades-long career shaped funk, soul and hip-hop music. Tributes and memorial services were held in his honor in several US cities.
• 1933 James Brown born in Barnwell, South Carolina Raised in Augusta Grows up in poverty in Augusta, Georgia.
• 1933 Nazi book burnings Students burn 'un-German' books in university towns On 10 May, students in Berlin and many other German cities burned tens of thousands of books by Jewish, liberal and leftist authors. The Berlin burning on the Opernplatz was attended by Joseph Goebbels.
• 1933 – present Bernadette Chirac Politician and first lady Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac, née Chodron de Courcel, was a French politician and former first lady of France. Refusing to be reduced to a president's wife, she built her own decades-long elected career in the Corrèze, championed children's charities, and was the shrewd driving force behind Jacques Chirac's political ascent.
• 1933 Bernadette Chirac born in Paris 18 May 1933 Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chodron de Courcel is born on 18 May 1933 in Paris, into an aristocratic French family.
• 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority created Federal agency set up to develop the Tennessee River basin Congress created the TVA on 18 May to provide flood control, electricity and economic development to one of the poorest regions of the United States. It became one of the best-known New Deal programmes.
• 1933 Century of Progress exposition Chicago World's Fair opens its first season The fair opened on 27 May to mark Chicago's centennial and celebrated scientific and industrial progress. It ran until 12 November and reopened for a second season in 1934.
• 1933 Tanggu Truce Ceasefire between China and Japan in northern China Signed on 31 May, the truce created a demilitarised zone south of the Great Wall. In practice it accepted Japanese control of Manchuria and Rehe.