Time is not linear, but pulses in a quanta-like manner. 1933 was a maximum pulse year for civilization as demonstrated by the following:

1. Lena Horne, age 16, first performs (at Harlem's Cotton Club).
2. First broadcast of "The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen." The series causes model-airplane frenzy.
3. Appliance distributor Superior Profucts Mfg. Co. goes into business.
4. Jayne Mansfield born on April 19.
5. Russia's Tupolev Design Bureau develops the record-busting ANT-25 airplane.
6. Elizabeth 'Bewitched' Montgomery born; Ring Lardner and architect Aldolf Loos die.
7. Hitler's National Socialists seize control of Germany on Jan 30.
8. Monkey Jungle opens.
9. Stereophonic sound is born.
10. MassenetÕs Manon is the vehicle of the remarkable Lucrezia BoriÕs 1933 San Francisco Opera debut. Her des Grieux was Dino Borgioli.
11. The big business break for the fledgling Collins Radio Company came in 1933, when Admiral Byrd and CBS chose the unknown Arthur Collins to establish radio communications for Byrd's historic expedition to the South Pole. Collins and the others also took a chance and used his innovative, new, and somewhat unproven "telephony" equipment to make contact. The successful radio broadcasts by CBS of activities in Antarctica put Collins on the map and produced an avalanche of orders.
12. Bonnie & Clyde are in mid-crimespree; Clyde's brother Ivan (Buck) Barrow is killed by law officers.
13. Alcatraz made a prison (closed in 1963).
14. Art Deco is in full stride.
15. Prof. L. Chung Yun reaches 256th birthday.
16. Mae West stars in "She Done Him Wrong."
17. The 13th Dali Lama dies.
18. Juggler Bobby May films his amazing act at the La Scala Theatre in Berlin. Click here to see a (250K mpeg) clip!
19. "Island of Lost Souls" directed by Erle C. Kenton, stars Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau. Regarded by many as the best horror film ever made.
20. Lightship #116 "Fenwick" renamed "Chesapeake."
21. Ban on James Joyce's ULYSSES is lifted in US.
22. "A Century of Progress" is the theme of the World's Fair in Chicago; among the attractions is the gigantic Halvoline Thermometer and a "Robot Cow".
23. "Little Women" (K. Hepburn) released.
24. Mary Pickford makes her last movie.
25. Roman Polanski born in Paris of Polish parents on 8/18/33.
26. San Francisco's Aquatic Park Maritime Museum & Bathhouse built.
27. First annual Lemon Festival in Menton, France.
28. Cadillac makes only 34 Sport Coupes. Earl Wind of Bayside, NY owns the only 2 still in existence.
29. The St. Louis Ramblers (Rugby) founded by Harry Langenberg
30. US Gov't bans private ownership of gold (repealed in 1976).
31. Rod McKuen born (April 29).
32. Trigger born.
33. The National Radio Company introduces the FB-7 Receiver.
34. "Why Shoot the Butler" (Georgette Heyer) published.
35. 20th Century Pictures is formed by Daryl F. Zanuck; the studio's film "Cavalcade" (screenplay by Noel Coward) wins Oscar for Best Picture.
36. "Duck Soup" (Groucho Marx) filmed .
37. Marvin Koenig born (source: San Francisco attorney Andrew Ross' privately printed family history).
38. Orgone research begun by Wilhelm Reich.
39. Golden Gate Bridge and Oakland Bay Bridge construction begins.
40. Herbert Hoover leaves office; FDR is new US President.
41. April: the Civilian Conservation Corps, part of The New Deal, is organized.
42. First American gay film: "Lot in Sodom."
43. Eight-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. appears in movies for the first time, in "Mr. Jordan for President," also makes "Rufus Meets the President."
44. "King Kong" released; 1st film to play the Radio City Music Hall (which opened March 2nd).
45. Loch Ness Monster first photographed.
46. "42nd Street" (Busby Berkley) released.
47. Yoko Ono born.
48. "Don't Blame Me", "Blue Moon," "I Cover the Waterfront" and "Night and Day" written.
49. "Footlight Parade" (Joan Blondell & Claire Dodd) released; includes notable put-down: "as long as there's sidewalks, you'll have a job."
50. 260 Scotch Pines that spell the town's name planted in Canisteo, NY as an aid to aviators.
51. Prohibition repealed (Dec. 5).
52. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers first work together ("Flying Down to Rio").
53. 1933 was the model for a proposed "13-month year" submitted by the Chicago Retail Lumber Association to the National Committee on Calendar Simplification on 12/21/28 and to the Communications and Transit Committee of the League of Nations on 12/17/30.
54. "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" by James Hilton published.
55. The late guitar virtuoso Rainer is best known for his unique finger-picking country blues style played on a 1933 National steel-bodied guitar.
56. Aluminizing method for coating mirrors developed.
57. Magnitude 8.1 earthquake strikes Japan's Miyagi Prefecture; 3,064 people on the country's Pacific coast killed by post-quake Tsunami.
58. Isabel Wilder (sister of Thorton) publishes her 1st novel "Heart be Still." She died at age 95 on 3/5/95.
59. Maurice Michaelwhite born.
60. Emerson Radio & Telegraph first produce small ("clock case") radios; 200,000 units sold by end of 1933.
61. Oct. 9th: first Giacombinid (Draconid) meteor storm; greatest since the Leonids of 1866, up to 6000 per hour seen all across Europe.
62. John Gardner born (not the James Bond writer).
63. Society for Research on Meteorites, now called The Meteorological Society, formed.
64. Fred Whipple discovers his first comet, the 1st of 5 (period: 8.5 years).
65. Average US income is $1,048.
66. Clara Bow permanently retires from the Silver Screen (she and her husband opened an LA bar in 1937 - the same year the Golden Gate and Oakland Bay Bridges were completed; they were begun in 1933).
67. Fantasy illustrator Virgil Finlay's self-portrait drawn.
68. George F. Keck first gets notion to harness solar energy.
69. Rudy Vallee receives the first singing telegram, a birthday greeting, via telephone from Western Union operator Lucille Lips.
70. Last man to speak the Mohican language dies.
71. The tailor in character Chauncy Gardener's investigated history in the movie "Being There" went out of business in 1933.
72. "The Private Life of Henry VIII" released; Charles Laughton wins Best Actor Oscar for his performance.
73. The 1990 pilot of the Goodyear Blimp "Enterprise" drives a 1933 Ford.
74. The Lefty O'Doul Bridge built (a Strauss Bascule Trunnion bridge located in San Francisco's China Basin).
75. Clyde Tombaugh makes one of the first "Rich Field" telescopes in the US; a 5" f/4 reflector (Clyde discovered Pluto in 1930).
76. Charles and Anne M. Lindbergh set out to Greenland on their last air-routing flight. Their Lockheed Sirius was later named the "Tingmissartoq," which means something like "man who flies like a bird" in the Eskimo language.
77. C.L. Moore's first story, "Shambleau," is published in the November issue of WEIRD TALES.
78. Statue to commemorate San Francisco's volunteer fire department erected in Washington Square Park by bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit.
79. Cosmic radio waves discovered by Karl Jansky on May 5th.
80. MGM fires Buster Keaton for drinking.
81. E.M Antoniadi, in a paper published in NATURE, summarizes his view disputing the existence of canals on Mars; he also produces a map of Mercury.
82. W.S. Adams & T. Duncan, using spectrographic techniques at Mt. Wilson Observatory, fail to detect Oxygen on Mars.
83. Record low temperature for a February 12th in Tucson (22 degrees).
84. "Little Women" (K. Hepburn) filmed.
85. The 61-inch reflector completed at Oak Ridge (later Agassiz) station of the Harvard Observatory.
86. May 2nd: bright vertical orange-colored ray projecting from upper limb of the moon reported by D.W. Bone - the only report of this phenomenon on record.
87. The Argentine government passes legislation removing authority from C.D. Perrine, Director of the Cordova (Bosque Alegre) Observatory.
88. Double star Ross 614 at periastron.
89. French optician Bernard Lyot introduces principle of the Quartz Monochromatic Filter (Monochromator).
90. RCA Victor introduces an affordable, easily installed car radio.
91. John S. Hall receives PhD from Yale (as of 1987 he was Director Emeritus of Lowell Observatory).
92. Arthur Bennet begins using infrared photometer (invented by aforementioned John S. Hall in 1932) to study variable stars, producing 20 notebooks of observations between 1933 and 1940.
93. The Pyrex glass disk for the 82-inch MacDonald Observatory reflector was poured at Corning Glass Works on Dec 31; the telescope is now called the Struve Telescope (after Otto Struve, who died in 1963).
94. Double Star lambda Arietis recorded as follows: mags 5, 7.5; 37.4"; 46 degrees.
95. First 2-piece women's bathing suit introduced.
96. Wiley Post flies around the world solo in his plane, the Winnie Mae. An autopilot ("Mechanical Mike") was used for the first time on the flight.
97. Capt. Stephen Darius & Stanley Girenas try to fly to their native Lithuania in a Bellanca Pacemaker Monoplane (they die when it crashes in East Prussia...).
98. General Italo Balbo commands a mass transatlantic flight by the Italian Air Force.
99. Would-be killers finally finish off Michael Malloy after 30 attempts.
100. "God's Little Acre" published (Erskine Caldwell, 1903-1987).
101. The Franklin Institute procures a globe of Mars.
102. Recurring Nova RS Ophiuchi erupts and is spotted by Loreta of Bologna, Italy while it was increasing in brightness. Leslie Peltier of Delphos, Ohio observed it a few days later (in October 1933 Peltier's homemade pie-tin multiple eyepiece adapter design for telescopes was featured in the Popular Science Monthly ).
103. March 30: Douillet observes a white luminescent spot (Transient Lunar Phenomenon) in the vicinity of Lunar crater Aristarchus.
104. First airplane expedition to fly over Mt. Everest (April 3).
105. Nagaoka and Fuagami of Tokyo obtain some laboratory evidence that two of the strong "Nebulium" lines (4959 & 5007 Angstroms) - 'forbidden' lines of an unknown material detected spectroscopically in galactic nebulae - can be attributed to Oxygen.
106. W.T. Hay, a British amateur astronomer, discovers brilliant white spot on Saturn; nothing like it had been seen before (this was Will Hay, actor of "Oh, Mr Porter" and "The Ghost of Michaelmas" fame).
107. Yugoslavian stage & screen veteran Zvonimir Rogoz shocks Europe by starring in the widely publicized erotic film "Ecstasy" with the controversial Hedy Lamarr.
108. Mary McCarthy's Novel "The Group" concerns a group of Vassar class of 1933 grads.
109. "Stormy Weather" written.
110. Dachau concentration camp opens.
111. Actor Cecil Holloway (the husband in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" - 1946) played in over 100 movies between 1933 and 1970.
112. Manning Coles' novel "A Toast to Tommorrow" begins in 1933.
113. 1933 is considered to be the origination of modern bubble-gum cards; baseball cards begin to be packaged with chewing gum (previously they were sold with cigarettes).
114. Paramount classic "Alice in Wonderland" released (Charlotte Henry, Cary Grant, W.C. Fields & other Hollywood greats play cameos).
115. Machine Gun Kelly nabbed, cries "Don't shoot, G-Men!"
116. Marconi installs a microwave radio station at the Vatican.
117. "Dinner at Eight" (Jean Harlow, John & Lionel Barrymore), "The Barber Shop" (W.C. Fields), "Vampire Bat" (Melvin Douglas & Fay Wray), and "A Bedtime Story" (Maurice Chevalier & Helen Twelvetrees) all released.
118. Frederik Pohl, age 13, meets Joseph Harold Dockweiler (Dirk Wylie) at Brooklyn Technical High School and discovers "I am not alone" (THE EARLY POHL, Doubleday 1976).
119. "Rasputin and the Empress" opens (John, Lionel, and Ethel Barrymore).
120. An RKO Studios memo lists words that cannot be used in movies, including alley cat, broad, chippies, dame, fanny, mistress, moll, nude, punk, sex, sexual, slut, trollop, want you, wench, and whore.
121. James Bond's car in the novel "Casino Royale" is a 1933 Bentley.
122. The Tall Ship "Balcutha," built in 1886, was called the "Star of Alaska" from 1904-1933; it was then renamed "Pacific Queen." In 1954 it was renamed to the original "Balcutha".
123. Theodore Roszak born (futurist author of "Making of a Counterculture").
124. Russia's first liquid-fuel rocket is launched in November.
125. Long Beach area is rocked by an earthquake that destroys LA Polytechnic High School; W.C. Fields makes & distributes to newsreels a fake scene of being on a set during the Earthquake. The scene was manufactured by Paramount (Director: Southerland).
126. Teenager J.Harold Gibson becomes a radio amateur.
127. "The Whispering Shadow" and "The Death Kiss" (both starring Bela Lugosi) filmed.
128. "Polly Pix in Washington" (Shirley Temple in a prototype of the "Our Gang" series) released.
129. Lincoln Davis completes a 6-inch reflecting telescope that is featured as "A Rugged Amateur Telescope of Yore" in the June 1985 issue of SKY & TELESCOPE.
130. Joan Collins Born.
131. "The Expanding Universe" by Sir Arthur Eddington is published.
132. Vladimir Hourganoff (prof. Emeritus at the University of Paris, born in Moscow) becomes a French citizen.
133. Albert Einstein emigrates to the USA.
134. Double star 70 Oph at maximum seperation; xi UMa at minimum; 30 Tauri is recorded at mags 4.5, 9.5; 9.2"; 59 degrees.
135. Grote Reber completes B.S. in Electrical Engineering at what is now the Illinois Institute of Technology.
136. "The Power and the Glory" (Spencer Tracy) released.
137. Mitch Vavich of Tucson, AZ graduates from High School.
138. Benjamin Whorf publishes a major series of papers concerning Mayan Hieroglyphics.
139. "Tonight is Ours" (Fredric March and Claudette Colbert) and "Billion Dollar Scandal" (Robert Armstrong and Olga Baclanova) released.
140. Double star Struve1964 in Corona Borealis is mags 7.5, 7.5; 15"; 33 degrees and sigma CrB is recorded at 6.2, 10.5; 71"; 85 degrees.
141. ARRL member Don Mix, ARS 1TS, of Bristol, Ct, is part of QST technical staff from 1933 to 1968.
142. Clyde Wanslee of Tucson, AZ goes into business.
143. "Emergency Call" (Bill Boyd & Wynn Gibson) released.
144. Hollywood's new production code prompts screenwriters to substitute quips for double-entendres.
145. Walter Haas begins observing Saturn.
146. First Rittenhouse medal awarded (to Frank Schlessinger)
147. Lady Bird Johnson graduates from University of Texas with a degree in Liberal Arts.
148. "The Lone Ranger" premiers on radio.
149. Clothilde Marghieri demands (and gets) a house of her own.
150. Margaret Ehigham, Duchess of Argyll, marries American stockbroker Charles Sweeney.
151. Early "modern" superheterodyne radios hit the market.
152. "Gabriel Over the White House" (Walter Houston, Karen Morley),
153. "Flaming Gold" and "Son of Kong" released.
154. W. Becker claims that Uranus has a roughly 8-year period of magnitude variation of 0.3 magnitude (denied in 1961 by Kuiper & D.L. Harris).
155. Willie Nelson Born.
156. "June Moon" revived on Broadway, featuring actress Lee Patrick.
157. Louis Comfort Tiffany dies (b. 1848).
158. First PBY "Catalina" flying boat ordered.
159. Joe Kulack executed on April 10.
160. The Mighty Mario, strongman and fire-eater for Zmak & Sons Circus, is trampled to death by an elephant. His eerie apparition reappears to frightened beholders throughout Eastern Europe to this day.
161. William Lyon Phelps taught English at Yale from 1896 to 1933.
162. Hallicrafters Radio Co. goes into business - quits in 1975.
163. Robert G. Aitken (then director of Lick observatory, writes an article titled "The Use of Astronomy."
164. "A Study in Scarlet" (Reginald Owen) released.
165. 13-year-old future astronomer Lennart Dahlmark reads an article by Swedish astronomer G. Larsson-Leander describing how nice it would be to sit outside on an autumn evening and see the stars wander through the sky. It inspires Lennart to pursue the beauty and mystery of the heavens.
166. Publication #25 of the Marine Research Society, Salem, MA (1st ed.): "The Built-Up Ship Model" by Chas. G. Davis issued.
167. Woman of the Year: Katherine Hepburn.
168. Frieda Kahlo paints "Self Portrait With Necklace."
169. Irene Dunn stars in "The Silver Cord" (with Joel McCrea) and "Anne Vickers" (with Walter Houston).
170. Adolf Hitler proposes the idea of the "People's Car" (Volkswagen).
171. J. Saget constructs a telescope sector drive that is still a useful version for amateurs.
172. Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion #1" wonder-car is completed.
173. The only notable alteration in Levi Jeans is the removal of the copper rivet from the crotch.
174. Fatty Arbuckle dies.
175. George Anton, later author of "Bad Boy of Music" (1945), writes "Designers Hands for Piano."
176. "The Flying Devils" (Ralph Bellamy & Bruce Cabot) released.
177. Decision to develop the XB-15 bomber is made (1st plane completed in 1937).
178. "The Good Companions" (Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Jessie Matthews) released.
179. J.A. Worcester starts a series of articles for homebrew radio construction enthusiasts with "The 'Oscillodyne' 1-Tube Wonder Set" in April's SHORT WAVE CRAFT.
180. WWV gets its first 20-kilowatt transmitter, in Beltsville, MD.
181. "The Ghoul" (Boris Karloff) released.
182. July: The Douglas DC-1 successfully passes design requirements for a new commercial aircraft for TWA to supercede the Ford Trimotor. Only one was built. The DC-2 was then developed from the DC-1 prototype and put into service. One of the requirements was the ability to fly over the Rockies on one engine. The technical chief was Charles Lindbergh.
183. Winona M. Melick has her nose removed (cancer).
184. Arthur C. Clarke in print for the first time, in "Huish Magazine," the school magazine of Huish Grammar School. He was 16 years old.
185. "To the Last Man" (Randolph Scott) released.
186. Women's bicycle race in Tucson sponsored by Fox Theater on June 21.
187. Paul Dirac wins the Nobel Prize for Physics (he had predicted the existence of the positron in 1928; it was discovered in 1932).
188. The Bauhaus School closes its doors.
189. Last Tom & Jerry cartoon: "Phantom Rocket."
190. "The Peanut Vendor" (Max Fleisher)
191. Japan's forces make south of the Great Wall from Manchuria into China.
192. Nikola Tesla, using a new machine, attempts to degassify copper at the ASARCO plant with their engineer, Dr. A.J. Phillips. It did not succeed.
193. James Bryant Conant, age 40, elected President of Harvard.
194. Bill Sparks begins shortwave listening, which becomes a lifelong avocation.
195. "The Shape of Things to Come" (H.G. Wells) published.
196. Leo Szilard leaves Germany for England, patents the chain-reaction for the British.
197. Ernest Rutherford indicates that obtaining energy from nuclear fission is not possible (Leo Szilard disagrees).
198. Neils Bohr tells friend J. Rud Nielson how he used to read Kierkegaard while working on his PhD thesis.
199. The Joliot-Curies discover artificial radioactivity.
200. John Von Neumann, 29 years old, becomes youngest member of the newly-established Institute for Advanced Study.
201. 1933 was a sunspot minimum year.
202. Einstein renounces his German citizenship for the second time.
203. The 7th Solvay conference is held in Brussels in October.
204. Enrico Fermi publishes a paper defining beta decay and the weak force (the 4th fundamental force).
205. George Struve dies at age 47.
206. "So this is Heaven" released (a short RKO musical that paved the way for 30's musicals; the 1st using on-stage playback technique).
207. "Oliver Twist" (Dick Moore & Irving Picher), "The Eagle and the Hawk" (Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie), "A Shriek in the Night" (Ginger Rogers) released.
208. The stage version of "Secret Agent" opens.
209. 5-year old Nadine Earles dies of pneumonia and is buried with an ornate playhouse over her grave in Lanett City Cemetery in Alabama.
210. FDIC created.
211. Calvin Coolidge dies.
212. Chapter 14 of the Hotel Act for the State of Washington amended.
213. Perry Mason solves his first case.
214. Francis Bacon paints "Crucifixion 1933."
215. Louis Martini vinyards (Northern California) founded.
216. CW Crystals of Marshfield, MO goes into business.
217. "In 1933, Bernard Lyot borrowed the objective of the 110mm large Coude and installed it at Pic-du-Midi. He folded the beam with very carefully made flats employed at nearly normal incidence. Under these conditions, thermally induced astigmatism was very slight and Lyot obtained Lunar detail at least 3-fold better resolution than that of the (Photographic Atlas of the Moon)" -Jean Texereau, HOW TO MAKE A TELESCOPE, 2nd ed, p. 240).
218. "It really looked as if, for the first time, we had a framework wide enough to include the entire spectrum of elementary particles and their interactions, fulfilling my dream of 1933" (Heisenberg in 1957, in the context of his ill-fated collaboration with Pauli on a Unified Field Theory...from TRUTH AND BEAUTY by S. Chandrasekhar).
219. American English becomes respectable.
220. "F.P. One" (Conrad Veidt & Leslie Fenton), "International House" (W.C. Fields), and "His Double Life" (Roland Young, Lillian Gish) released.
221. NBC starts broadcasting from newly-completed Rockefeller Center.
222. Dec 16: Edwin H. Armstrong is issued 4 patents for the FM radio system.
223. First modern sit-down strike (Austin, MN: 12/13/33).
224. "Berkeley Square" (a ghost-story movie) released.
225. Joan Rivers Born.
226. Mythical book ("All of Them Witches") in "Rosemary's Baby" published.
227. 5th edition of Norton's Star Atlas published.
228. German engineer Hermann Sorgel seeks international support for a proposal to build a dam at the Strait of Gibraltar, then cut a canal to flood the Sahara below sea level.
229. John Dillinger paroled from penitentary in Michigan City, then arrested in 1934 in Tucson - only to escape again after extradition.
230. Ocean City, MD hit by a hurricane in August. This was the last hurricane to approach the coast directly from the east until 1995.
231. "The Energetics of Non-Steady States, with Applications to Cepheid Variation" published in The Oxford Quarterly.
232. After a dinner in Hall at Trinity during Christmas recess, in the Senior Combination Room, Rutherford, Eddington, Patric DuVal (a distinguished geometer), Sir Maurice Amos (at one time the Chief Judicial Advisor to the Egyptian Government), and S. Chandrasekhar shoot the bull quite heavily about, among other things, Einstein's fame versus origins of atomic models.
233. The Seattle Art Museum in Volunteer Park opens.
234. Pellegrini Wine Merchants of San Francisco begins business.
235. Fritz Zwicky discovers "missing mass."
236. "Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses - A Textbook of Geometrical Optics," by J.P.C. Southall published by MacMillan.
237. "The Doll's House," a ghost story by Hester Gorst, published.
238. "The Night Nurse's Story," a ghost story by Edith Oliver, takes place in 1933.
239. "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" (Fritz Lang) released.
240. Sailing Yacht "Norseman" built in San Pedro, CA (35 tons, 50-ft. mast, red cedar construction). Currently owned by James & Carol Garvey.
241. The United States finally officially recognizes the Soviet Union.
242. Miss Hungary of 1933: Zsa Zsa Gabor.
243. "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" (Spencer Tracy, Lyle Talbot & Bette Davis) and "Christopher Strong" (Katherine Hepburn) released.
244. RY Sag (an R CrB-type variable star) has a very erratic minimum.
245. Artist Bruce Conner born.
246. "An Astronomer's Life" (Edwin B. Frost) published.
247. Boris P. Geraismorch appointed Director of Pulkovo Observatory (he was executed by Stalin in 1937).
248. Herbert Luft observes "light columns" all over the sky.
249. "He scanned the Wine Menu rapidly but thoroughly. 'The Zinfandel 1933,' he ordered with decision, though glancing my way to see if I concurred with his judgement. I smiled and nodded." (from "Catch That Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber)
250. "If I Were Free" released.
251. Vladimir Horowirz meets and marries Wanda Toscanini.
252. "The Invisible Man" (Claude Rains) released.
253. Henri Cartier-Bresson photographs "Alicante, Spain, 1933."
254. F. Lee Bailey born June 10.
255. Pettit & Nicholson first determine infrared light curves of Mira-type (LPV) variable stars, using a bolometer at Mt. Wilson.
256. Nov 13: Mrs Gilbert of Franklin Street in San Francisco has an outstanding debt of $41.50 owed to Louis May Plumbing for a heating system installed the previous November (she had paid 39.00 thus far).
257. Salvador Dali begins "Masochistic Instrument," continues "Meditations on the Harp" and paints "The Phantom Chariot."
258. The Movie "Hard Times" (Charles Bronson) takes place in 1933.
259. Actor John Donaldson dies.
260. Precursor to the ViewMasterTM appears.
261. Robert E Cox (1917-1989) builds his first telescope, a 6-inch reflector.
262. The character William Lantry in "Pillar of Fire" (Ray Bradbury, 1948) dies, only to arise zombie-like in year 2349.
263. The New York Giants beat the Washington Senators to win the World Series.
264. Experimental percussionist composer Johanna Magdelena Beyer writes "3 Songs on Texts from Carl Sandburg" for piano, percussion, & voice (she studied with Dane Rudyar, among others).
265. The Gold Dust Saloon established in San Francisco.
266. The automated bowling alley is developed.
267. Patrick Sweeney, the endower of Golden Gate Park's fragrance garden, is born.
268. "Cesar" (Kaimu & Orane Demazis) released.
269. "Western Mail (Wales), May, 1933 - 'Balls of phosphorescence observed gliding over Lake Bala, mid-Wales...'" -from "Sinister Barrier" by Eric Frank Russell.
270. Lockheed begins design of a twin-engine aircraft that eventually led to the P-38 "lightning" in 1939.
271. H. Lockyer shows that star gamma CAS has intense emission lines that vary continuously in strength.
272. Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann dies.
273. John Walker & Co. of San Francisco begin business.
274. Michael Leiris returns to Paris from the African tropics and calls on Raymond Roussel (who died 7/14/33).
275. "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (F.Y. Brown), "Stellar Wonders"(Charles White), The Book of Air & Water Wonders" (Ellison Hawkes) and "Other Worlds" (Edwin Lincoln Mosley) published.
276. Joel McCrea gets married (after making "The Silver Cord").
277. John Cage becomes a student of Schoenberg.
278. Smead Jolley photographed with Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and Dale Alexander. The photo is autographed by the latter three.
279. "Lady for a Day," "Manhunt," "Paddy the Next Best Thing" ('a delightful romantic romp'), "Bed of Roses" ('a little-known acerbic comedy'), "Queen Christina," and "Blonde Bombshell" (Jean Harlow) released.
280. Disney animated cartoon "The Three Little Pigs" released (Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf?).
281. Singer Sally Osman is granted a divorce on grounds that her ventriloquist husband and his dummy joined forces to torment her.
282. "The Futurist Radiophonic Theatre Manifesto" is published; according to Rosalie Goldberg, it is the last significant contribution of the Futurists.
283. Gene Kelly graduates from the University of Pittsburgh.
284. The United States has been in a State of National Emergency since 1933 (the Banking Act has never been repealed).
285. "Finally, moving into the past, Ghirardi's classic Radio Physics Course (Radio Technical & Publishing Co., 1933) provides quite a bit of detail on the grid-leak detector." -Marc Ellis in POPULAR ELECTRONICS, Jan. 1989.