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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.
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 ...
1942 – Japanese American internment, German American Internment, and Italian American Internment begin, per executive order by President Roosevelt; the order also authorizes the seizure of their property. 1942–1945 – Automobile production in the United States for private consumers halted. 1942 – Casablanca released
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.
May–June: Second major round of U.S. bank failures and worsening economic situation contributes to permanent change in people's expectation of the economy. This run was centered on bank in Chicago, which suffered from real estate loan defaults. Of the 193 state-chartered banks in the Chicago area in 1929, only 35 would survive to the end of ...
US annual real GDP from 1910 to 1960, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–1939) highlighted Unemployment rate in the US 1910–60, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–39) highlighted; accurate data begins in 1939, represented by a blue line. The Depression caused major political changes in America.
1929 events in the United States by month (6 C) / 1929 disestablishments in the United States ... 1929 American novels (40 P) P. 1929 in American politics (4 C, 3 P) S.