When Zahir Shah took power in 1933 Kabul had the only 6 miles of rail in the country, few internal telegraph or phone lines and few roads.

The Seventh Thule Expedition ( 1933 ) was meant to continue the work of the sixth, but Rasmussen contracted pneumonia after an episode of food poisoning, dying a few weeks later in Copenhagen at the age of 54.

He became a member of the Nazi Party in February 1933, a few weeks after Hitler became chancellor.

On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.

" However, this did not affect RKO's plans for Astaire, first lending him for a few days to MGM in 1933 for his Hollywood debut, where he appeared as himself dancing with Joan Crawford in the successful musical film Dancing Lady.

Tatum worked first around Toledo and Cleveland and then later in New York at the Onyx Club for a few months ; he recorded his first four solo sides on the Brunswick label in March, 1933.

In January 1933 Hitler became Chancellor, and within a few months, dictator.

A few years later ( 1933 ), Adolf Hitler appointed Fischer rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin, now Humboldt University.

In 1965, both the Major League All-Star Game and the World Series were played at Metropolitan Stadium, one of the few times that coincidence has happened since the former event was inaugurated in 1933.

Éamon de Valera ( 1882 – 1975 ) lived in a few houses in the area including " Bellevue " on Cross Avenue 1933 – 1940.

A few of the players from this team went on to play for the original Pittsburgh Pirates football team in 1933 ; the team later became the Steelers.

From that time forward, however, there was a slow decline in relations, with a complete breakdown reached a few months after Hitler ’ s 1933 rise to power.

In 1933 he met Sophia Rogers, an " exotically pretty girl with dark curly hair " who had moved to Slad from Buenos Aires, an influence on Lee who said later in life that he only went to Spain because " a girl in Slad from Buenos Aires taught me a few words of Spanish.

Worst of all, Yrigoyen died in bed in 1933 and suddenly the entire country was gripped with grief for a man few had cared deeply for when he was alive.

Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler ( 3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933 ) was a British painter, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition.

* Franz Roh, German art critic and art historian, for a few months in 1933

In 1933, the National Park Service took over administering the circle, and added sandboxes for children, though these were removed a few years later.

Brightlingsea open air swimming pool was built in 1933 and is one of the few remaining lidos ( open air swimming pools built mainly in the art-deco period ) still in use in the UK.

It is one of the great rivalry games in college football, and since 1933 it has been held in Jacksonville, Florida, with only two exceptions, making it one of the few remaining neutral-site rivalries.

Double eagles were routinely minted through 1933, although few of the very last years ' coinages were released before the gold recall legislation of that year.

The house was completed in May 1933, but Princess Asaka died a few months later.

He is the protagonist of 23 novels from 1933 through 1967 as well as a few short stories.

He is noted for having discovered a white spot on the planet Saturn in 1933 ; the spot lasted for a few months and then faded.

Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J. O Studio, in their animation department.

The London Passenger Transport Act 1933 removed responsibility for of tram route from the London County Council, three county boroughs and a number of other local authorities in the Greater London area.

The Wörgl experiment that was conducted from July 1932 to November 1933 is a classic example of the potential efficacy of local currencies.

Also in 1933, the first Cantonese-language films were produced in Hong Kong — Sha zai dongfang ( The Idiot's Wedding Night ) and Liang xing ( Conscience ); within two years, the local film industry had fully converted to sound.

As Hitler secured national power in 1933, SA men became auxiliary police, and marched into local government offices to force officials to hand over authority to Nazis.

* 1933: A local trade directory lists for Heathrow these: Mrs. Waddell ( Cain's Farm house ); < u > farmers or market gardeners </ u >: Harry Curtis ( Heathrow Farm ), George Dance ( a small house on Heathrow Road nearly opposite the Plough and Harrow pub ), William Howell ( Bathurst ), Frederick Philp ( Heathrow Hall ), Sidney Whittington ( Perry Oaks ), David and John Wild ( Croft House ); < u > other </ u >: Heathrow Sand & Gravel Co ( Colnbrook ) Ltd., Edgar Charles Basham ( The gazette misprinted his surname as Sasham ) ( publican at the Plough and Harrow pub ), Fairey Aviation.

The 1933 short story The People's Choice by Erskine Caldwell is set in Washington County, where the story's protagonist is a popular local politician elected again and again as the county's tax assesor.

In 1933 she requested recognition for her troop from the local council ; it was refused until 1942 when permission for the first official African-American Girl Scout troop in Tennessee was given.

On July 19, 1933 Bonnie & Clyde were ambushed by, and engaged in, a shootout with local authorities just south of Platte City at the Red Crown Tourist Court.

In 1933 FFA members from the local chapter arrived at the national convention in blue corduroy jackets with the FFA emblem on the back.

On 4 March 1933 he scored his first senior goal, it came in a 3 – 1 win over local rivals Port Vale at The Old Recreation Ground.

In October 1933, a small 100-watt radio station in Eugene, Oregon, KORE, offered free time to Armstrong for a morning devotional, a 15-minute time slot shared by other local ministers.

Between 1933 and 1935 Parry, at the time Associate Professor at Harvard University, made two trips to Yugoslavia, where he studied and recorded oral traditional poetry in Serbo-Croat with the help of his assistant Albert Lord and Nikola Vujnović, a local Herzegovinian Croat.

At 21: 15 ( UTC + 1 ) ( 22: 15 local time ) on 27 February 1933, the Berlin Fire Department received a message that the Reichstag was on fire.

Opened on 14 December 1933, Barnsley Town Hall is the seat of local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley.

In local elections held in early 1933, most of the seats went to conservative and centrist parties.

SV won the East Bavarian championship just three years later in 1933, but then afterwards toiled in anonymity in the local lower level leagues until 1993 when they won the Landesliga Bayern-Süd ( V ) title, followed by the Bayernliga ( IV ) championship two years later, which advanced the club to the Regionalliga Süd ( III ).

The game became such a cherished local custom that another exhibition of volleyball-style takraw was staged to celebrate the kingdom ’ s first constitution in 1933, the year after Thailand abolished absolute monarchy.

The settlement continued to operate as a moshava until 1933, although it achieved local council status in 1926.

In 1933, Girl Scouts in Philadelphia organized the first official sale, selling homemade cookies at the windows of local utility companies.

Rolph received considerable criticism for publicly praising the citizens of San Jose following the November 1933 lynching of the confessed murderers of Brooke Hart, a local department store heir, while promising to pardon anyone involved, thereby earning the nickname, " Governor Lynch ".

In Stellaland's favour, one can point out that the Montevideo convention which formalised the definition of sovereignty in the modern sense would not be signed until 1933, and that the local chiefs approved its existence.

Wilson was born in the small town of Trinity, Texas, to Charles Edwin Wilson, an accountant for a local timber company, and Wilmuth Wilson, a local florist, on June 1, 1933.