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Top Song(s)
• George Olsen - The Last Round-Up
• Ray Noble - Love Is The Sweetest Thing
• Dick Powell - Gold Digger's Song (We're in The Money)
• Bing Crosby - You're Getting to Be a Habit
• Paul Whiteman - Lover
Top Film(s)
• Duck Soup
• The Invisible Man
• King Kong
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• Gold Diggers of 1933
Best Selling Book(s)
• Lost Horizon - James Hilton
• Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
• Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie
• Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Famous Deaths
• January 3 - Wilhelm Cuno, German businessman, politician and 15th Chancellor of Germany
• February 14 – Carl Correns, German botanist, geneticist
• March 18 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian mountaineer, explorer and admiral
• April 1 – Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, British politician and colonial governor
• May 16 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish-born German anarchist writer and philosopher
• August 10 – Alf Morgans, Australian politician, 4th Premier of Western Australia
• September 17 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese Roman Catholic priest, missionary
• October 16 – Ismael Montes, Bolivian general and political figure, 26th President of Bolivia
• November 5 – Texas Guinan, American actress, producer and entrepreneur
• December 19 - George Jackson Churchward, English Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer
Medical/Science/Technology
• The British Interplanetary Society is founded.
• Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky invent the concept of the neutron star.
• Fritz Zwicky postulates the existence of dark matter.
• Gilbert N. Lewis isolates the first sample of pure heavy water by electrolysis.
• Will Hay observes the periodic Great White Spot on Saturn.
• Long Beach earthquake in Southern California: First recording of earthquake by an accelerograph.
• Stanley Skewes discovers Skewes' number.
• First attempted human kidney transplant, the recipient dies 2 days later.
• English researchers report isolating a human influenza A virus and its transferability to ferrets.
• The hydraulic torque converter is patented by Alf Lysholm.
Political Events
• January 5 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the U.S dies of coronary thrombosis in Northampton, Massachusetts.
• January 17 – The U.S. Congress votes favorably for Philippines independence, against the view of President Herbert Hoover.
• January 23 – The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• February 17 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
• March 4 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States.
• March 9 – The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
• June 5 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution.
• November 8 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration.
• November 13 – Jasper McLevy becomes mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first Socialist mayor in New England.
• December 5 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, repealing Prohibition, goes into effect.
National Events
• January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
• January 30 – The Lone Ranger debuts on American radio.
• March 3 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.
• April – Civilian Conservation Corps established.
• April 19 – The United States officially goes off the gold standard.
• June 6 – The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
• August 10 - Shipping Board Bureau and Emergency Fleet Corporation founded.
• September 18 – Tennessee Valley Authority is established.
• October 12 – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz is acquired by the U.S. Department of Justice.
• October 17 – Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
Worldwide Events
• January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
• February 23 – The Imperial Japanese Army invades Rehe province in northern China.
• March 3 – A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honsh?, Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people.
• April 3 - An anti-monarchist rebellion occurs in Siam (Thailand).
• May 10 – Chaco War: Paraguay formally declares war on Bolivia.
• June 22 – Nazi Germany outlaws the Social-Democratic Party (SPD).
• July 15 - The Four-Power Pact is signed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy.
• August 7 – Simele massacre: More than 3,000 Assyrian Iraqis are killed by Iraqi government troops.
• September 26 – A hurricane destroys the town of Tampico, Mexico.
• December 26 - The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.