The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect in this year (it was first signed in Paris in 1928 by most leading world powers).
A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington. === July === July 11 – In the Soviet Union, a secret decree of the Sovnarkom creates the backbone of the Gulag system. July 24 * The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers). * Union Airways Pty.
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.
The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flew around the world in 21 days. ==Summary== ===Middle East, Asia, and Pacific Isles=== On August 1 of this year the 1929 Palestine riots broke out between Palestinians and Jews over control of the Western Wall.
Two of the more famous incidents occurring during these riots were the August 23–24 1929 Hebron massacre, in which almost 70 Jews were killed by Palestinians and the remaining Jews are forced to stay at Hebron.
The other major clash was the 1929 Safed massacre, in which 18–20 Jews were killed by Palestinians in Safed in similar fashion.
In September, Great Britain announced it would support Iraq's inclusion in the League of Nations, signaling the beginning of the end of their direct control of the region. Early in 1929, the Afghan Civil War saw the Afghan leader King Amanullah lose power to the Saqqawists under Habibullāh Kalakāni.
In the Pacific, on December 28 – "Black Saturday" in Samoa – New Zealand colonial police killed 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which led the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa. ===Europe=== ====Western==== In 1929, the Fascist Party in Italy tightened its control.
In 1929, the number of unemployed reached three million.
Stalin emphasized in 1929 a campaign demonizing kulaks as a plague on society.
Kulak property was taken and they were deported by cattle train to areas of frozen tundra. The timber market in Finland began to decline in 1929 due to the Great Depression, as well as the Soviet Union's entrance into the market.
The state's new Monarchy replaced the old parliament, which had been dominated by Serbs. === North America === In October 1929, the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overturned a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that women could not be members of the legislature.
In November, the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake occurred off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean.
Clifford Loos - the first HMO in the United States. The Mexican Cristero War continued in 1929 as clerical forces attempted an assassination of the provisional president in a train bombing in February.
He stated that he intended the book to tell the story "of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war." Another 1929 book reflecting on World War I was Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, as well as Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves.
This year Ernst Schwarz describes Bonobo (Pan paniscus) as a different species from common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), both closely related phylogenetically to human beings. During the year 1929, there were two solar eclipses and two penumbral lunar eclipses: 1929 May 9 = Total Solar Eclipse 1929 May 23 = Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 1929 November 1 = Annular Solar Eclipse 1929 November 17 = Penumbral Lunar Eclipse ==Events== === January === January 1 * The U.S.
In total, 133 Jews and 116 Palestinians are killed. August 20 – John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system is first transmitted, by the British Broadcasting Corporation. August 23–24 – The 1929 Hebron massacre: 65–68 Jews are killed by Palestinians and the remaining Jews are forced to leave Hebron. August 29 * The 1929 Safed massacre: 18–20 Jews are killed in Safed by Palestinian Arabs. * The collides with the oil tanker S.C.T.
Barr. November 15 – Atlantic, a film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, is released in the U.K., the first British sound-on-film movies and, in its simultaneously-shot German-language version, the first to be released in Germany. November 18 – The 1929 Grand Banks earthquake occurs. November 29 – Bernt Balchen, U.S.
1846) ==Nobel Prizes== Physics – Louis de Broglie Chemistry – Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin Physiology or Medicine – Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Literature – Thomas Mann Peace – Frank Billings Kellogg == References == == Sources == The 1930s Timeline: 1929 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
1846) ==Nobel Prizes== Physics – Louis de Broglie Chemistry – Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin Physiology or Medicine – Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Literature – Thomas Mann Peace – Frank Billings Kellogg == References == == Sources == The 1930s Timeline: 1929 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways, on 1 February 1934. July 25 – Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace, and enters St.
On September 3, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) peaked at 381.17, a height it would not reach again until November 1954.
Jews would not return to Hebron until after the Six-Day War in 1967.
It registered as a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, broke 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggered a tsunami that destroyed many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area, killing 28 (as of 1997, Canada's most lethal earthquake).
Notably, this is the first occasion in Australian political history where a sitting Prime Minister loses his own seat (the second being John Howard in 2007). October 13 – Afghan Civil War ends October 14 – The Philadelphia Athletics win the World Series four games to one over the Chicago Cubs, taking Game Five by a 3–2 score at Shibe Park. October 18 – On appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of "The Famous Five" Canadian women in the landmark case of Edwards v.
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