Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Timeline of United States history (1900–1929) List of years in the United States; ... Events from the year 1929 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government
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.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, [4] was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.
This page was last edited on 22 December 2024, at 10:00 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The following events occurred in August 1929: Thursday, August 1, 1929 ... The New York Giants used the first public address system in baseball history during a game ...
The following events occurred in November 1929: ... 41 at the time, was subsequently promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, the youngest admiral in U.S. Navy history.
July 10, 1929: Large U.S. banknotes taken replaced... July 25, 1929: Pope Pius XI declares self no longer a "prisoner in the Vatican", goes into Saint Peter's Square...by notes 17% percent narrower and shorter July 2, 1929: Warner Bros. film star Gladys Brockwell dies of auto accident injuries. The following events occurred in July 1929: