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October 24: Wall Street Crash of 1929 October 11 – J. C. Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware , making it a nationwide company with department stores in all 48 states. October 14 – The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs , 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series Title.
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.
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.
I've been in the Library of Congress lately reading financial newspapers from the week of the October, 1929 stock market crash that ultimately crushed the Dow Jones by nearly 90%. Last week, I ...
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The following events occurred in December 1929: Sunday, December 1, 1929. Seven people were killed in a coal mine explosion in West Frankfort, Illinois. [1]
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:
1929 events in the United States by month (6 C) / 1929 disestablishments in the United States (28 C, 8 P) 1929 establishments in the United States (55 C, 36 P) A.