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Frank Owen Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, [4] [5] to parents Sadie Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg. [6] His American father was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents, and his Polish-Jewish mother was an immigrant born in Łódź, Poland .
William Peter Hamilton (January 20, 1867 – December 9, 1929), a proponent of Dow Theory, was the fourth editor of the Wall Street Journal, serving in that capacity for more than 20 years (i.e., January 1, 1908 – December 9, 1929). [1] [2] [3] "Some people think and others do. Dow thought and created an index and pondered it.
Crowd gathers during the 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.
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms ...
October 24–29: The Wall Street Crash of 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression. October 3 – The country officially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes its name to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. October 6 – Serie A, the top-class professional football league of Italy, replaces the Divisione Nazionale. [citation needed]
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933.A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe.
In 2010, DNA testing on James's great-grandson, Martin III by 23andMe confirmed that the King's family Y-chromosome lineage originated from Ireland. [3] King married Delia Linsey (1875–1924) in 1895, and they both worked as sharecroppers , in Henry County and Clayton County in Georgia , and then Stockbridge, Georgia where they settled and ...
A mistake during an aerial bombing practice in Peshawar inadvertently killed 14 members of the Poona Horse cavalry regiment in what is now called "friendly fire". [31] The drama film The Bellamy Trial was released. Born: John Polanyi, Hungarian-Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate, in Berlin