1929 Timeline

With the Stock market crash having just happened months prior to the census.  

What else happened the year before the census?

I created links for a few of the events.
If the event is highlighted in orange, 
click on the event to read more about that particular event.

Timeline 1929
	Jan
US and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls	2
	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
	18	Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
Acadia National Park, Maine established	19
	20	1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence	26
	31	Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
	Feb
Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome	11
	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
	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
	Mar
Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st US President	4
	8	US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1st telephone installed in White House	23
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
	Apr
Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo	1
	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
	May
Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin	1
	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
	8	NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates, 11-0
64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane	10
	11	1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)	12
	16	1st Academy Awards - "Wings", Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC	21
	28	1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
	Jun
Vatican City becomes a sovereign state	7
	25	President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
President Paul Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I	27
	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
	Jul
US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"	1
	3	Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency	10
	17	USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China
The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.	23
	Aug
Jones Beach in NY opens	4
	7	Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight	8
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
Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight	29	German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
	Sep
Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.	3
	11	SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox	14
	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
	30	1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
	Oct
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
	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
	24	"Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64	28
	29	"Black Tuesday" Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
	Nov
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
	7	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	20
	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
	Dec
	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
	21	1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)