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1933
 
     
Alexander Korda directs Charles Laughton in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII        
1933
 
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Fulgencio Batista, as army chief of staff, begins a long career running the affairs of Cuba   See in Google maps   
1933
 
    
H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war       
1933
 
     
US actress Katherine Hepburn wins the first of four Oscars in only her second film, Morning Glory        
1933
 
    
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the largest project launched in the first hundred days of Roosevelt's New Deal       
1933
 
     
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance together for the first time on film, in Flying Down to Rio        
1933
 
   
Unknown American blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, or Leadbelly, is first recorded singing in the Louisiana State Penitentiary      
1933
 
     
Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas        
1933
 
    
The Pylon group of British poets get their name from Stephen Spender's poem 'The Pylons'       
1933
 
   
King Kong, an enduringly successful horror film, is based on a story by Edgar Wallace