Lippe demonstrated the stability of the Nazis and gave impetus to support for Adolf Hitler to become Chancellor. The Marian apparition referred to as Our Lady of Banneux was first observed in the village of Banneux in Belgium. Teenager Mariette Besco reported seeing the Virgin Mary seven more times, with the final occurrence on March 2. Born: Ernest J. Gaines, American poet, in Oscar, Louisiana. (d. 2019) Died: Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, daughter of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and women's rights leader. January 16, 1933 (Monday) In his campaign to disperse the kulaks, independent farmers who were resisting the Soviet campaign for collective farming, Joseph Stalin ordered the eviction of hundreds of kulak families from the countryside around Odessa and Chernigov. This was followed by orders to deport the kulaks from Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Bashkiria, Lower Volga, and 30,000 from the Northern Caucasus. Eventually, more than one million resisters were resettled in Siberia. The Buy American Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives as an amendment to the 1934 Treasury and Post Office appropriations bill. It would pass the Senate on February 4 and be signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on his last full day in office. Born: Susan Sontag, American author, as Susan Rosenblatt in New York City (d. 2004). Died: Lee Cruce, 70, the second Governor of Oklahoma (1911–1915). January 17, 1933 (Tuesday) Following the example of the U.S. House of Representatives on January 13, the United States Senate voted 66-26 to override President Hoover's veto of the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, passing it into law by a margin of 5 votes. The new law provided for the Philippines to become a self-governing Commonwealth, with full independence in ten years. Outgoing U.S. President Herbert Hoover asked Congress to pass a national sales tax upon all items except food and "cheap clothing", in order to balance the budget and offset a projected deficit of $700 million. Imre Nagy, the future Prime Minister of Hungary who would attempt to free his nation from Soviet domination, was first recruited by the Soviet NKVD as an informer, under the code name "Volodya". Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, who received her nickname from her initials as Miriam Amanda Ferguson, took office as the first woman Governor of Texas. The next day, she fired all 44 of the Texas Rangers. Born: Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Iranian diplomat and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1966-1978;