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What Events Happened in 1929

  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre Seven gangsters rivaling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.


  • Total of over 200,000 die from Influenza Epidemic


  • Vatican City gains independence from Italy and is created as it's own State


  • US Captures Mexican General J Gonzalo Rebels


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


  • 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 lasting till the mid 30's




Popular Culture

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


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


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


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


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




Technology 1929

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


  • The First car radio is made by Motorola


  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin


  • The First Public phone booths appear in London


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


  • 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 )