1929 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1929?
- January 6, 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country’s constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
- January 17, 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- January 20, 1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
- January 31, 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
- February 10, 1929 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 26, 1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
- May 14, 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
- May 16, 1929 – In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
- June 1, 1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
- June 7, 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
- July 23, 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- July 27, 1929 – The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
- August 8, 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
- August 11, 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
- August 24, 1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
- October 7, 1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- October 23, 1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
- October 24, 1929 – “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
- October 28, 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
- October 29, 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or “Black Tuesday”, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
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