1933 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1933 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition
[edit] Events
- 2 April - in a Cricket test match against New Zealand, batsman Wally Hammond scores a record score of 336 runs.[1]
- 3 April - The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale leads an expedition to be the first to fly an aircraft over Mount Everest.
- 2 May - First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
- 1 July - London Passenger Transport Board established, unifying multiple earlier services.[2]
- 15 July - signature of the Four-Power Pact by Britain, France, Germany and Italy.[1]
- 12 August - Winston Churchill makes his first public speech warning of the dangers of German rearmament.[2]
- 21 December - Newfoundland returned to Crown Colony status following financial collapse.[2]
[edit] Undated
- British Interplanetary Society founded.
- London Passenger Transport Board founded.
- Norman Angell wins the Nobel Peace Prize.[3]
- The England cricket team wins The Ashes using the controversial bodyline tactic.[1]
[edit] Publications
- George Orwell's book Down and Out in Paris and London.[1]
- H.G. Wells' novel The Shape of Things to Come.
- Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Lord Edgware Dies.
[edit] Births
- 18 January - David Bellamy, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner
- 18 January - John Boorman, film director
- 6 February - Leslie Crowther, television comedian and game show host
- 7 February - John Anderton, footballer
- February 8 - Donald Burgess, track cyclist
- 22 February - Katharine, The Duchess of Kent
- 14 March - Michael Caine, actor
- 17 March - Penelope Lively, novelist
- 4 April - Brian Hewson, track and field athlete
- 6 April - Roy Goode, legal academic
- 16 April - Joan Bakewell, broadcaster
- 24 April - Claire Davenport, actress (died 2002)
- 10 May - Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer
- 23 May - Joan Collins, actress
- 25 May - Ray Spencer, footballer
- 6 July - Frank Austin, footballer
- 15 July - Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
- 2 August - Tom Bell, actor (died 2006)
- 10 August - Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, judge
- 21 August - Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
- 21 August - Barry Norman, film critic
- 8 September - Michael Frayn, playwright and novelist
- 9 October - Peter Mansfield, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 24 October - Kray twins, gangsters
[edit] Deaths
- 31 January - John Galsworthy, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
- 22 April - Henry Royce, car manufacturer (born 1863)
- 20 November - Augustine Birrell, author and politician (born 1850)
- 26 December - Henry Watson Fowler, lexicographer (born 1858)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 510–512. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 376-377. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1933. Retrieved on 2007-12-02.
