Timeline June 1933

Events in June 1933 11

• 1887 – 1933 Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (1887-1933) Died 29 June 1933, aged 46 One of the biggest stars of silent film comedy, his career was wrecked by the 1921 Virginia Rappe scandal despite his acquittal. He died of a heart attack just as his comeback was starting.
• 1899 – 1933 Chaim Arlosoroff (1899-1933) Died 16 June 1933, aged 34 Labour Zionist leader and head of the Jewish Agency's political department. He was shot dead on a Tel Aviv beach, and the killing has never been solved.
• 1933 Duke Ellington's first European tour London Palladium Received as a serious composer in Britain and France.
• 1933 French Open 1933 Men: Jack Crawford · Women: Margaret Scriven First non-French men's champion since 1891.
• 1933 First drive-in theater opens Richard Hollingshead opens a drive-in cinema in Camden, New Jersey Park-In Theaters opened on 6 June, letting audiences watch films from their cars. Drive-ins went on to become an American institution in the 1950s.
• 1933 – 2014 Joan Rivers (1933-2014) Died 4 September 2014, aged 81 Joan Rivers, the pioneering comedian and television personality known for her sharp-edged humor and red carpet commentary, died from complications during a throat procedure in New York. She had built a decades-long career breaking ground for women in stand-up comedy. She remained a fixture of American television until her death.
• 1933 London Economic Conference World leaders fail to agree on currency stabilisation Delegates from 66 nations met in London from 12 June to try to revive trade and stabilise currencies. The conference collapsed after Roosevelt rejected currency stabilisation.
• 1933 Glass–Steagall Act Banking Act separates commercial and investment banking Signed on 16 June, the Banking Act of 1933 separated commercial from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The separation provisions were largely repealed in 1999.
• 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act New Deal law creates the National Recovery Administration Signed on 16 June, the act allowed industries to draw up codes of fair competition and set up the Public Works Administration. The Supreme Court struck down its main provisions in 1935.
• 1933 – 2019 Danny Aiello (1933-2019) Died 12 December 2019, aged 86 Danny Aiello was an American actor best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Sal in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. He appeared in dozens of films including Moonstruck and The Godfather Part II. He died in New Jersey.
• 1933 – 2023 Dianne Feinstein (1933-2023) Died 28 September 2023, aged 90 American senator for California from 1992 until her death, the longest-serving woman in the history of the Senate.