BACK IN TIME-1929

What News Events Happened In 1929

U.S.

• The 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre on February 14th. Seven gangsters rivaling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

World

• Total of over 200,000 die from Influenza Epidemic.

U.S.

• Dow Reaches Peak of 381.17 on September 3rd prior to the slide and eventual wall street crash in October.

Canada

• The United States and Canada sign an agreement to protect Niagara Falls.

U.S.

• US Population reaches 120 Million.

Vatican

• Vatican City gains independence from Italy and is created as its own State.

U.S.

• US Captures Mexican General J. Gonzalo Rebels.

U.S.

• Colonial Charles Lindberg leaves on a 3,500-mile flight from Detroit to Cape Horn.

U.S.

• The Wall Street Crash of 1929, is the stock-market crash that occurred in late October and started the period of The Great Depression in the United States, starting a world-wide economic crisis and lasting till the mid 30's.

Popular Culture

U.S.

• Popeye, a comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, makes his debut.

U.S.

• Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are started.

U.S.

• Museum Of Modern Art opens in New York.

U.S.

• A start is made on the Rockefeller Center in New York.

U.S.

• The Broadway Melody becomes the first major musical film of the sound era.

U.S.

• The soft Drink 7-up is invented by Charles Leiper Grigg.

Born This Year

Anne Frank This Day In History July 12th
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis News And Events From July 28th
Roger Bannister This Day In History March 23rd
Audrey Hepburn News And Events From May 4th

Technology

Germany

• The German airship Graf Zeppelin completes a round-the-world flight.

U.S.

• The first car radio is made by Motorola.

UK

• The First Public phone booths appear in London.

World

• The growth of Airplane travel continues with flights to destinations further and further apart including India, Australia, Europe, North and South America and Asia.

U.S. 

• Edwin Hubble continued to publish much of the foundations for understanding our galaxies and much of the theory that modern astronomy is based on (Possibly why the Hubble Space Telescope was named after him).

Switzerland 

• First Chain Saw Andreas Stihl a Swiss engineer begins manufacturing the first gasoline powered chain saw, which he soon begins exporting around the world.

U.S.A. 

• Sunglasses Sam Foster begins selling sunglasses from his counter in Woolworths on the boardwalk in Atlanta which are great hit with the sunbathing public.

Major World Political Leaders

Australia Prime Minister Stanley Bruce until 22 October
Australia Prime Minister James Scullin From 22 October
Brazil President Washington Luís 
Canada Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King 

Italy Prime Minister Benito Mussolini 

Japan Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi From 2 July
Japan Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka until 2 July
Mexico President Emilio Portes Gil 
Russia / Soviet Union 
General Secretary of the Central Committee Joseph Stalin 
South Africa Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog 
United States President Calvin Coolidge until March 4
United States President Herbert Hoover From March 4
United Kingdom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin until 5 June
United Kingdom Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald From 5 June
Japan Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi From 2 July
Japan Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka until 2 July

Political Elections

British General Election 1929 Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) defeats Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) and David Lloyd George (Liberal)