The Year 1929 From The People History

What News Events Happened in 1929

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

• Total of over 200,000 die from Influenza Epidemic

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

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

• US Population reaches 120 Million

• 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

• Museum Of Modern Art opens in New York

• A start is made on the Rockefella 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

Born This Year 1929

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 )

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

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