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This peak matches early-1929 levels, but is 30% below the September 1929 peak. May: Automobile sales fall below 1928 levels. June 17: Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act passed, placing more stress on the weakening global economy, primarily through the collapse in trade of agricultural products, which strained banks that had lent heavily to farmers ...
Events from the year 1929 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government ... List of American films of 1929; Timeline of United States history (1900–1929 ...
1929 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre; March 4, 1929 – Hoover becomes the 31st president and Curtis becomes the 31st vice president. 1929 – Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurs, resulting in the Great Depression.
1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st president of the United States on March 4, 1929 Great Depression , September 3, 1929 – September 1, 1939 Wall Street Crash , September 3, 1929 – July 8, 1932
After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped from 381 to 198 over the course of two months, optimism persisted for some time. The stock market rose in early 1930, with the Dow returning to 294 (pre-depression levels) in April 1930, before steadily declining for years, to a low of 41 in 1932.
1929 events in the United States by month (6 C) / ... Timeline of the Herbert Hoover presidency; V. Vehicle registration plates of the United States for 1929
The Age of the Great Depression, 1929–1941 (1948), scholarly social history online; Wicker, Elmus. The Banking Panics of the Great Depression (1996) White, Eugene N. "The Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 Revisited". The Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring, 1990), pp. 67–83, evaluates different theories in JSTOR