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Events on Wednesday 26 April 1933 2
1933 – 2024Arno Penzias (1933-2024)Died 22 January 2024, aged 90German-American astrophysicist who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics for detecting the cosmic microwave background.
1933Gestapo establishedSecret state police founded in PrussiaHermann Göring created the Gestapo on 26 April from the Prussian political police. It became the Nazi regime's chief instrument for persecuting political opponents and Jews.