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May 18, 1933

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Notable Births

Bernadette Chirac

1933Bernadette Chirac, French politician, First Lady of France[†]

Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac is a French politician and the widow of the former president Jacques Chirac.

H. D. Deve Gowda

1933H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian farmer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of India[†]

Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda is an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of India for nearly 11 months, from 1996 to 1997. He previously served as the chief minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996 and as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Lok Sabha. A member of the Janata Dal (Secular), he has been serving as the party's president since 1999 and has been an MP in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka since 2020.

Don Whillans

1933Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (died 1985)[†]

Donald Desbrow Whillans was an English rock climber and mountaineer. He climbed with Joe Brown and Chris Bonington on many new routes, and was considered the technical equal of both.

Historical Events

New Deal

1933New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.[†]

The New Deal was a series of wide-reaching economic, social, and political reforms enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938, in response to the Great Depression, which had started in 1929. Roosevelt introduced the phrase upon accepting the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1932 before winning the election in a landslide over incumbent Herbert Hoover, whose administration was viewed by many as doing too little to help those affected. Roosevelt believed that the depression was caused by inherent market instability and too little demand per the Keynesian model of economics and that massive government intervention was necessary to stabilize and rationalize the economy.