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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.
Events from the year 1929 in the ... The New York Times described the financial community's response to "the most disastrous trading day in the stock market's history ...
23 January – The Lancashire Cotton Corporation is set up by the Bank of England to rescue the Lancashire cotton milling industry by means of horizontal integration.; 18 March – An underground fire at Coombs Wood colliery near Halesowen kills 8 miners, the last major disaster in the Black Country coalfield.
1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. [4]1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier.
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
1989 – The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble. [ 23 ] 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello , president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress (d. 2019) 1929 – Pete George, American weightlifter (d. 2021) 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006) 1930 – Ernst Albrecht, German economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (d. 2014) 1930 – Robert Evans, American actor and producer (d. 2019)
The following events occurred in February 1929: ... took a tumble on the same day, ... reign of 70 years is the second-longest in European royal history, ...