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First movie with African-American interracial marriage: One Potato, Two Potato, [81] actors Bernie Hamilton and Barbara Barrie, written by Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes, directed by Larry Peerce First African-American man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor : Sidney Poitier ( Lilies of the Field , 1963) (See also: James Baskett , 1948)
A History of Violence; Match Point; Memoirs of a Geisha; Munich; Syriana; Walk the Line; 2006: Letters from Iwo Jima; Babel; Blood Diamond; The Departed; The Devil Wears Prada; Flags of Our Fathers; The History Boys; Little Miss Sunshine; Notes on a Scandal; The Painted Veil; 2007: No Country for Old Men; The Assassination of Jesse James by the ...
Sir Arthur Eddington publishes The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900–1931 in Cambridge. Comedian Will Hay observes the periodic Great White Spot on Saturn from his private observatory in London. [1] Fritz Zwicky postulates the existence of dark matter. [2]
A list of American feature films released in 1933. Hollywood was dominated by the eight major studios Fox Film, MGM, Paramount, RKO, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and United Artists. Cavalcade won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The first major Arabic work of astronomy is the Zij al-Sindh by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The work contains tables for the movements of the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets known at the time. The work is significant as it introduced Ptolemaic concepts into Islamic sciences. This work also marks the turning point in Arabic astronomy.
First full-disk pictures of the Earth, published in Review of Popular Astronomy July–August. [31] [20] August 23, 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1: First image of Earth from another astronomical object (the Moon) and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space. [32] [33] [34] [7] [19] December 11, 1966 ATS-1
This is a list of science fiction films that premiered between 1 January 1930 and 31 December 1939. In Phil Hardy's book Science Fiction (1983), the 1930s were described as a period where both science fiction literature and cinema were "in turmoil" and that by examining films of decade that "it is clear that Science Fiction, in no sense, can be seen as an ongoing genre in the thirties".
October 7, 1933: The Bowery: This is the first movie made by Twentieth Century Pictures. November 2, 1933: Broadway Through a Keyhole [1] November 17, 1933: Blood Money: The film was considered to be lost for over forty years until it resurfaced on TCM. December 1, 1933: Advice to the Lovelorn [1] January 5, 1934: Gallant Lady [1] January 19 ...