| Timeline
1929 |
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Jan |
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| US and Canada agree to
preserve Niagara Falls |
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6 |
Mother Teresa arrives
in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people. |
| "Buck
Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres |
7 |
"Tarzan", one of
the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears |
| Seatrain
(RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana |
12 |
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18 |
Stalin proposes
to ban Trotsky from the Politburo |
| Acadia National Park, Maine
established |
19 |
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20 |
1st feature talking motion
picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona" |
| Indian
National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence |
26 |
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31 |
Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia
to Turkey |
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Feb |
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| Vatican
City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome |
11 |
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13 |
Cruiser Act, USA, approves the
construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier |
| St Valentine's Day Massacre in
Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly onAl Capone's orders |
14 |
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18 |
The first Academy Awards are announced. |
| American Samoa organizes as
territory of US |
20 |
Red Sox announce they will play
Sunday games at Braves Field |
| US
Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park |
26 |
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Mar |
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| Herbert
Hoover inaugurated as 31st US President |
4 |
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8 |
US worker union commission
reports of slavery in Liberia |
| 1st telephone installed in
White House |
23 |
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| US
Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
27 |
US Men's Figure Skating
championship won by Roger Turner |
| Stanley
Cup: Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games |
29 |
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Apr |
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| Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo |
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3 |
RMS Queen Mary is ordered from
John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line. |
| NY
Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers |
16 |
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May |
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| Police kill 19 Mayday
demonstrators in Berlin |
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2 |
Billie
Holiday (14) and her mother are arrested for prostitution following a
raid of a brothel in Harlem |
| Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs,
Yankees 11, Tigers 9 |
4 |
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8 |
NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates, 11-0 |
| 64th British Golf Open: Walter
Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane |
10 |
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11 |
1st regularly scheduled TV
broadcasts (3 nights per week) |
| Pulitzer
prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) |
12 |
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16 |
1st Academy Awards -
"Wings", Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins |
| Automatic
electric stock quotation board installed, NYC |
21 |
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28 |
1st all color talking picture
"On With the Show" exhibited (NYC) |
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Jun |
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| Vatican
City becomes a sovereign state |
7 |
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25 |
President Hoover authorizes
building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
| President
Paul Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I |
27 |
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29 |
1st high-speed jet wind tunnel
completed Langley Field Ca |
| 33rd US Golf Open: Bobby
Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY |
30 |
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Jul |
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| US cartoonist Elzie Segar
creates "Popeye" |
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3 |
Dunlop Latex Development
Laboratories made foam rubber |
| US
issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency |
10 |
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17 |
USSR breaks diplomatic relations
with China |
| The
Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. |
23 |
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Aug |
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| Jones
Beach in NY opens |
4 |
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7 |
Ruth ties record by hitting
grand slams in consecutive games |
| German
airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight |
8 |
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| Persia
& Iraq sign friendship treaty |
11 |
Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500
homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve) |
| First US
roller coaster built |
26 |
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| Aviator Anne
Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight |
29 |
German airship Graf Zeppelin
ends a round-the-world flight |
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Sep |
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| Dow
Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly
followed by the Crash of 1929. |
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11 |
SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new
pedestrian traffic light system |
| A's
clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox |
14 |
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17 |
British troops begin withdrawal
from occupied Germany |
| Lt James
Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY
in 1st all-instrument flight |
24 |
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30 |
1st manned rocket plane flight
(by auto maker Fritz von Opel) |
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Oct |
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| British
Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR |
3 |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats &
Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia |
| Ramsay
MacDonald is first British premier to address US Congress |
7 |
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11 |
JC
Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide
company with stores in all 48 U.S. states. |
| Cubs
blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning |
12 |
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24 |
"Black Thursday",
start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8% |
| Dow Jones plummets 38.33
pts (13%) to 260.64 |
28 |
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"Black Tuesday" Stock
Market crashes triggers "Great Depression" |
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Nov |
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| Admiral
Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team
begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains,
the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica |
4 |
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NYC Museum of Modern Art opens
in Hecksher Building |
| Large
earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places |
18 |
Stalin routes troops to
Manchuria |
| Salvador Dali's first
one-man show |
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28 |
Adm Richard E Byrd makes
1st South Pole flight |
| Lt Cmdr
Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached
vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong) |
29 |
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Dec |
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1 |
Game of Bingo invented by Edwin
S Lowe |
| Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins |
10 |
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21 |
1st group hospital insurance
plan offered (Dallas Tx) |
