1933

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This article is a date listing important or significant events that happened for the year 1933


Events

  • February 2 – According to reports from the University of Virginia hospital, there are twenty new babies at present in the maternity ward, and exactly nineteen of these are girls. According to the Virginia Star newspaper "If an old superstition that a prevalence of boy babies foretold a war still holds true, peace in large quantities must be in sight for this section of the country, at least."[1] (Note: The Korean war began on June 25, 1950)
  • July 1 – Charlottesville did not get its own radio station until WCHV first went on the air.[2]
  • August 19 – Founded earlier in the year, issue number 3 of The Reflector is published. This local newspaper began publication in Charlottesville, and was advertised as "Charlottesville's Only Negro Weekly."[3] The only known surviving copies of The Reflector are housed at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. [4]
  • October 20Charlottesville Planning Commission has a discussion of the city's street network including proposals for both east-west and north-south highway [5]
  • October 21University of Virginia asks state advisory board of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works for a $372,000 grant to build an engineering building. [6]
  • October 25Alcohol: Virginia voted to ratify the 21st Amendment; repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol.
  • November 7 – All six members of the Albemarle Board of Supervisor are unopposed in the general election. [7]
  • November 20 – Councilman Shelton Fife offers amendment as to “A” and “A-1” Residential zoning, and upon motion, was sent to Board of Zoning appeals for hearing.[8]
  • November 23 – The Daily Progress reports that the state forester announced a plan to hire 12,000 workers across Virginia for a two month period, including 200 positions in Albemarle County. [9]
  • December 1 – City Manager Seth Burnley tells the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors he cannot accept their offer to become the very first County Executive at a $5,000 a year salary. [10]
  • December 5Alcohol: The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified; repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America. At 5:32 p.m. EST, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, achieving the requisite three-fourths majority of states’ approval. Though contributed with her vote on October 25, Virginia remained "dry" - with the exception that Virginians could continue to drink beer of 3.2% alcoholic content, which was previously legalized at a special session of the General Assembly.[11] While prohibition was repealed at the federal level - state and local restrictions on liquor continue to this day. During prohibition, there was rarely a week without a mention of moonshiners in Greene, Madison and western Albemarle counties in the Daily Progress.
  • A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp is established in White Hall at some point during the year. This organization was one of many New Deal programs established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression.

Deaths

Notes

While National Prohibition ended with passage of the 21st Amendment, Section 2 of the Amendment allowed the states to write their own laws governing alcohol; states that the “transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.” Subsequent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court agreed that each state could regulate the sale of alcohol within its borders. While prohibition was repealed at the federal level dash; state and local restrictions on liquor continue to this day.

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References

  1. Web. ANY-AND EVERYTHING, Virginia Star, 2 February 1933, retrieved September 4, 2023.
  2. Web. Moving Towards a National Culture, retrieved September 4, 2023.
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  4. Web. T. J. Sellers, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, retrieved January 26, 2023.
  5. Web. Planning Group Studies Streets, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, October 21, 1933, retrieved October 21, 2022. Print. October 21, 1933 page 3.
  6. Web. University Asks Loan for Engineering Building, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, October 21, 1933, retrieved October 21, 2022. Print. October 21, 1933 page 1.
  7. Web. No Opposition to Supervisors, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 3, 1933, retrieved November 3, 2022. Print. November 3, 1933 page 10.
  8. Web. ZONING CHANGES PROPOSED HERE, Daily Progress, Tuesday November 21, 1933, retrieved October 23, 2022.
  9. Web. Pederson Suggests Large Forestry Progream, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family
  10. Web. Seth Burnley Decides to Remain as City Manager, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, December 1, 1933, retrieved December 1, 2022. Print. December 1, 1933 page 1.
  11. Web. NO EXTRA EFFORT TO ENFORCE LAW. Little Liquor Expected To Come In State From Wet Points. PLENTY ON HAND. Sales of Beer of Higher Alcoholic Content Not to Be Permitted., The Daily Progress, Tuesday December 5, 1933, retrieved December 8, 2022.
  12. Web. E. G. Haden, Twice Mayor, is Dead. Was long engaged in Real Estate Business…died at his home on Park Street, after a brief illness., Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, February 28, 1933, retrieved October 13, 2018 from University of Virginia Library. Print. February 28, 1933 page 1.