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1929 United States House of Representatives elections. ... 29%; Georgia 5: Leslie J. Steele: Democratic 1926: Incumbent died July 24, 1929. New member elected October ...
However, the one-day crash of Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%, as well as Black Monday of March 16, 2020 (−12.9%), were worse in percentage terms than any single day of the 1929 crash (although the combined 25% decline of October 28–29, 1929, was larger than that of October 19, 1987, and ...
2004 – The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. [28] 2005 – Bombings in Delhi, India kill 67 and injure over 200 people. [29]
October 14 – The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series Title. October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election on April 25, 2019. [2] A total of 29 major candidates declared their candidacies for the primaries, the largest field of presidential candidates for any American political party since 1972; [3] but over time, the field narrowed down to Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont. [4]
Joe Biden, a Democrat from Delaware, was elected President of the United States on November 3, 2020. He was inaugurated on January 20, 2021, as the nation's 46th president. The following articles cover the timeline of Joe Biden, and the time leading up to it:
October 12, 1929: James Scullin wins election to become new Prime Minister of Australia October 24, 1929: Panic selling begins on Wall Street when the New York Stock Exchange opens as investors scramble to pay "margin calls", a day commemorated as "Black Thursday" and as the start of the Great Depression October 3, 1929: The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially shortens name to ...
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.