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The King Vidor-directed musical film Hallelujah!, with music by Irving Berlin and starring Daniel L. Haynes and Nina Mae McKinney, was released in the United States. [40] First transmissions of John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system by the BBC in London. [41] Died: Albert Parker Niblack, 70, U.S. admiral
Timeline of United States history (1900–1929) ... Dick Schulze, American politician; August 9 – Fred Fredericks, cartoonist (d. 2015) August 10 – Vincent ...
The Women's Air Derby was the first official women-only air race in the United States, taking place during the 1929 ... on August 18, 1929 ... place in history.
Teddy Roosevelt, the Bull Moose, led American progressives in the early 20th century. 1906 – San Francisco earthquake; 1907 – Oklahoma becomes a state; 1907 – Gentlemen's Agreement; 1907 – Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361. Worst industrial accident in American history. 1908 – Ford Model T appears on ...
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic counter-revolution in Mexico.
How do you commemorate the worst stock market crash in history? With the news that another devastating economic implosion may be nearing its end. That's where America finds itself on the 80th ...
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The United States deploys independent Task Force Ranger, August 8, 1993 – March 31, 1994 Battle of Mogadishu , October 3–4, 1993 George H. W. Bush becomes the 41st president of the United States on January 20, 1989