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October–December. 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 (MCMXXIX) 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 year marked the end of a period known in American history as the ...
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, [1] was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It began in September, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed, and ended in mid-November. The pivotal role of the 1920s' high-flying bull market ...
All U.S.-based productions made prior to 1929, including much of the Colonel Heeza Liar, Felix the Cat, Mutt and Jeff, Krazy Kat and Winsor McCay libraries, along with the earliest Walt Disney productions including Laugh-O-Gram Studio and Steamboat Willie.
Vehicle registration plates of the United States for 1929. Categories: 1929 by country. Years of the 20th century in the United States. 1920s in the United States. 1929 in North America. Hidden categories: Template Year in country category with unnamed 4th parameter. Template Year in country category with prefix available though CountryPrefixThe.
10 May. Age of Marriage Act 1929 passed, raising the legal marriageable age to sixteen years for both parties to a marriage. Yorkshire cricketer Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a match against Oxford University. [4] 14 May – The North East Coast Exhibition opens, and would run for six months.
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...
Tuesday, August 27, 1929. The trial of 250 members of the Sicilian Mafia for minor offenses ended in Italy. 43 were given prison terms of up to three years, 168 were acquitted and a new trial was ordered for the remaining 39. [51] Born: Ralph T. Coe, American art collector and scholar (d. 2010)