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….
Tag: 1929
8 August 1929
8 August 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. The German airship Graf Zeppelin (LZ 127) was one of the most…
27 July 1929
The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations. The 1929 conventions I mentioned earlier were actually the two…
7 June 1929
The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. The Lateran Treaty, also known as the Lateran Pacts, was an agreement between the Holy…
27 December 1929
Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the “liquidation of the kulaks as a class”.
7 November 1929
In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art’]
24 October 1929
“Black Thursday” on the New York Stock Exchange. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929′]
11 February 1929
The Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty. The Lateran Treaty was one of the Lateran Pacts of 1929 or Lateran Accords,…
14 February 1929
Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s gang, are murdered in Chicago in what became know as the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre….