Events Date 1929 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Piri Reis World Map

Oct 9 Part of lost Piri Reis World Map, compiled by Ottoman general Piri Reis in 1513, rediscovered in the Topaki Palace Library, Istanbul. Earliest map of Columbus's voyages. [1]

Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus

J. C. Penny Expands Nationwide

Oct 11 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.

Department Store Founder James Cash Penney

Oct 11 Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle" premieres in London
Oct 18 Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law
Oct 20 Bayshore Highway opens (San Francisco)

Briand Government Falls

Oct 22 8th French government of Aristide Briand falls

11x Prime Minister of France Aristide Briand

Oct 22 James H Scullin forms Australia government

Black Thursday

Oct 24 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash of 1929, Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 12.8%

A victim of the Wall Street crash puts his car up for sale in a desperate bid to raise cash

Oct 24 Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails

The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour

Oct 24 Rudy Vallee's "The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour" begins broadcasting on NBC radio

Singer and One of the Earliest Crooners Rudy Vallee

Albert B. Fall Convicted

Oct 25 Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal - 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail

Oct 28 Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
Oct 29 "Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression"
Oct 30 The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Germany
Nov 1 Lundy Island, part of British Isles, issue its own stamps
Nov 4 John L. Balderston's play "Berkeley Square" starring Leslie Howard premieres in NYC

Antarctic Polar Expedition

Nov 4 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.

Aviator and Polar Explorer Richard E. Byrd

Nov 6 Providence Steam Roller become first NFL team to host a game at night under floodlights; lose 16-0 against the Chicago Cardinals at the Cycledrome, Providence, RI

MOMA Opens

Nov 7 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens in the Hecksher Building in New York - its first exhibition features Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and van Gogh

Post-Impressionist Painter Georges Seurat

Nov 8 Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38" premieres in Paris

Politburo Power Struggle

Nov 17 Nikolai Bukharin is expelled from the Soviet Politburo amidst a power struggle with Joseph Stalin

Nov 17 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
Nov 18 Foundation stone for Umaid Bhawan Palace laid in Jodhpur, India. Originally built to provide employment for drought-stricken farmers, now one of world's largest private residences
Nov 18 Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places
Nov 20 First broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio

Salvador Dali

Nov 20 Salvador Dali's first one-man show

Nov 28 Chicago fullback Ernie Nevers sets NFL record for most points scored in a single game with all 40 in the Cardinals' 40–6 rout of Chicago Bears; Nevers has NFL record 6 touchdowns and 4 extra points
Nov 28 Richard E. Byrd makes his 1st South Pole flight
Nov 29 American aviator Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole"
Dec 1 Game of Bingo invented by American toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe
Dec 2 First skull of Peking man found in the caves of Zhoukoudian, 50 km outside of Peking, China. Later dated roughly 750,000 years old. [1]

Bruins Streak begins

Dec 3 Boston Bruins beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1, the first win of an NHL record 14-game winning streak, and a 22-game home winning streak

Dec 5 1st US nudist organization, the American League for Physical Culture in New York City
Dec 6 Turkey introduces female suffrage

Nobel to Eijkman and Hopkins

Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins

Physician and Nobel Laureate Christiaan Eijkman

Dec 14 Alexander Zaimis elected president of Greece

First Flight over Kilimanjaro

Dec 15 Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer is the first to fly over Mt. Kilimanjaro

Aviation Pioneer and Photographer Walter Mittelholzer

Dec 16 Chic Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1
Dec 20 Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
Dec 20 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
Dec 21 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)