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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.
This section of the timeline of United States history concern events from 1900 to 1929. U.S. territorial extent in 1900. 1900s Presidency of William McKinley ...
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.
Release in the United States of the historical film Disraeli. George Arliss plays the title rôle, for which he will be awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor , the first British winner. 10 November – Première of John Grierson 's documentary film Drifters about North Sea herring fishermen , made for the Empire Marketing Board , effectively ...
1947 – Jackson Pollock begins painting his most famous series of paintings called the drip paintings in Easthampton, New York; 1947 – First broadcast of Meet the Press; 1947 - World Series is broadcast live on television for the first time
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.
The following events occurred in March 1929: Friday, March 1, 1929 ... The historical film The Divine Lady, with music and sound effects but no audible dialogue, ...