Month August 1933 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

• August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
  
  August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Historical Events for August, 1933

• Day of Week 7th » The Simele massacre: The Politics of Iraq Iraqi government Simele massacre slaughters over 3,000 Assyrian people Assyrians in the village of Simele. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
• Day of Week 14th » Loggers cause a Wildfire forest fire in the Pacific Coast Ranges Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying convert 240,000 acre km2.
• Day of Week 24th » The Crescent (Amtrak) named Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the Amtrak Railroad Anacostia Bridge known as bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
• Day of Week 25th » The 1933 Diexi earthquake called Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
• Day of Week 27th » The first Bible translations into Afrikaans e.g Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1933

• 1st » Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1st » Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1st » Teri Shields, American actress and producer (d. 2012)
• 1st » Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian and author (d. 2007)
• 2nd » Alan Tuffin, English union leader
• 2nd » Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician, List of defence ministers of Greece named Minister of Defence for Greece
• 3rd » Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer (d. 2009)
• 5th » Jeffry Wickham, English actor (d. 2014)
• 6th » A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
• 7th » Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager
• 7th » Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 7th » Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist
• 8th » Joe Tex, American singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
• 8th » Serena Wilson, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• 9th » Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress, talk show host, and author
• 10th » Doyle Brunson, American poker player
• 10th » Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, English judge
• 10th » Rocky Colavito, American baseball player
• 10th » Keith Duckworth, English engineer, founded Cosworth (d. 2005)
• 11th » Jerry Falwell, American minister and evangelist (d. 2007)
• 11th » Jerzy Grotowski, Polish director and producer (d. 1999)
• 11th » Tamás Vásáry, Hungarian pianist and conductor
• 12th » Parnelli Jones, American race car driver
• 12th » Frederic Lindsay, Scottish author and educator (d. 2013)
• 13th » Joycelyn Elders, American admiral and physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
• 13th » Madhur Jaffrey, Indian actress and author
• 14th » Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate
• 15th » Bobby Helms, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 15th » Michael Rutter, Lebanese-English psychiatrist and academic
• 16th » Tom Maschler, English author and publisher
• 16th » Julie Newmar, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 16th » Stuart Roosa, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1994)
• 17th » Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993)
• 17th » Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
• 17th » Gene Kranz, American NASA flight director and manager
• 18th » Just Fontaine, Moroccan-French footballer and manager
• 18th » Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
• 19th » David Hopwood, English microbiologist and geneticist
• 19th » Debra Paget, American actress and singer
• 20th » George J. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
• 21st » Janet Baker, English soprano and educator
• 21st » Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (d. 1994)
• 21st » Barry Norman, English author and critic
• 22nd » Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
• 23rd » Robert Curl, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate
• 23rd » Pete Wilson, American commander and politician, 36th Governor of California
• 25th » Patrick F. McManus, American journalist and author
• 25th » Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet and Weather Report)
• 25th » Tom Skerritt, American actor and director
• 25th » István Gaál, Hungarian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 27th » Jenő Hámori (fencer) known as Jenő Hámori, Hungarian fencer
• 28th » Patrick Kalilombe, Malawian bishop (d. 2012)
• 29th » Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (d. 2014)
• 29th » Arnold Koller, Swiss politician

Famous Deaths for August 1933

• 22nd » Alexandros Kontoulis, Greek general and diplomat (b. 1858)
• 23rd » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 28th » Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)

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