- 1933 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1933 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Ramsay MacDonald , national coalitionEvents
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2 April - in aCricket test match againstNew Zealand , batsmanWally 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 overMount Everest .
*2 May - First modern sighting of theLoch 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 theFour-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 toCrown Colony status following financial collapse.Undated
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British Interplanetary Society founded.
*London Passenger Transport Board founded.
*Norman Angell wins theNobel Peace Prize . [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1933/|title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1933|accessdate=2007-12-02]
* TheEngland cricket team winsThe Ashes using the controversialbodyline tactic.Publications
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George Orwell 's book "Down and Out in Paris and London ".
*H.G. Wells ' novel "The Shape of Things to Come ".
*Agatha Christie 'sHercule Poirot novel "Lord Edgware Dies ".Births
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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 theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*24 October -Kray twins , gangstersDeaths
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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
ee also
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