1933 in the United Kingdom

1933 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1933 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition

Events

* 2 April - in a Cricket test match against New Zealand, batsman Wally Hammond scores a record score of 336 runs.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=510–512]
* 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.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 376-377|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 15 July - signature of the Four-Power Pact by Britain, France, Germany and Italy.
* 12 August - Winston Churchill makes his first public speech warning of the dangers of German rearmament.
* 21 December - Newfoundland returned to Crown Colony status following financial collapse.

Undated

* British Interplanetary Society founded.
* London Passenger Transport Board founded.
* Norman Angell wins the Nobel Peace Prize. [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1933/|title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1933|accessdate=2007-12-02]
* The England cricket team wins The Ashes using the controversial bodyline tactic.

Publications

* George Orwell's book "Down and Out in Paris and London".
* H.G. Wells' novel "The Shape of Things to Come".
* Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel "Lord Edgware Dies".

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

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)

References

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