Important Historical Events of the year 1929, Year 1929 in History

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List of 1929 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1929

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Date	Event
January 1, 1929	The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
January 6, 1929	King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
January 6, 1929	Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
January 20, 1929	The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
February 9, 1929	Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
February 11, 1929	Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
February 14, 1929	Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
February 21, 1929	In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
February 26, 1929	President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing the 96,000 acres (390 km2) Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
April 6, 1929	Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
April 8, 1929	Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
April 14, 1929	The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes place in the Principality of Monaco. William Grover-Williams wins driving a Bugatti Type 35.
May 1, 1929	The 7.2 Mw  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
May 15, 1929	A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
May 16, 1929	In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
June 1, 1929	The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
June 7, 1929	The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
June 8, 1929	Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
June 17, 1929	The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
June 21, 1929	An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
July 24, 1929	The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
July 27, 1929	The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
August 8, 1929	The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
August 11, 1929	Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
August 16, 1929	The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
August 23, 1929	Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine occur, continuing until the next day, resulting in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
August 24, 1929	Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
September 7, 1929	Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
September 24, 1929	Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
October 3, 1929	The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
October 7, 1929	Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
October 18, 1929	The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
October 24, 1929	"Black Thursday" on the New York Stock Exchange.
October 29, 1929	The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
November 3, 1929	The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
November 7, 1929	In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
November 18, 1929	Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
November 24, 1929	The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.
November 29, 1929	U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
December 3, 1929	President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It is presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
December 19, 1929	The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
December 24, 1929	Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
December 24, 1929	A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
December 27, 1929	Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".