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 )