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What News Events Happened in 1929

  • The 1929 St. Valentine's Day MassacreFebruary 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

Anne Frank July 12th

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis July 28th

Roger Bannister March 23rd

Audrey Hepburn May4th



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 )




Major World Political Leaders 1929

Australia Prime Minister Stanley Bruce Till 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 Till 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 Till March 4,
United States President Herbert Hoover From March 4,

United Kingdom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Till 5 June
United Kingdom Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald From 5 June

Japan Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi From 2 July
Japan Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka Till 2 July

Political Elections 1929


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


The Information above is taken from our new page that gives world leaders from 1920 to current.

Political World Leaders From 1920 To Current