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News and Events of 1929

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World Events

World Statistics

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Frank B. Kellogg (US)

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Trotsky is expelled from U.S.S.R.
The Lateran Treaty establishes an independent Vatican City.
First large-scale Jewish-Arab violence caused by a clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

President: Herbert C. Hoover
Vice President: Charles Curtis
Population: 121,767,000

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St. Valentine's Day gangland massacre in Chicago (Feb. 14).
Stock market prices plummet (Nov.-Dec.). U.S. securities lose $26 billion, marking the first financial disaster of the Great Depression

Economics

Federal spending:   $3.13 billion
Consumer Price Index:   17.1
Unemployment:   3.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Sports

Sports Links

Pro Football Summary

Pro Basketball Summary

Pro Baseball Summary

World Series

Philadelphia A's d. Chicago Cubs (4-1)

Stanley Cup

Boston d. NY Rangers (2-0)

Wimbledon

Women: Helen Wills d. H. Jacobs (6-1 6-2)
Men: Henri Cochet d. J. Borotra (6-4 6-3 6-4)

Kentucky Derby Champion

Clyde Van Dusen

NCAA Football Champions

Notre Dame (9-0-0)

Entertainment

Entertainment Awards

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin
Drama: Street Scene, Elmer L. Rice

Oscars awarded in 1929
Academy Award, Best Picture: Wings (Paramount Famous Lasky)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Thomas Mann (Germany)

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Events

The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.
CBS is founded by William S. Paley.

Science

Nobel Prizes in Science

Chemistry: Sir Arthur Harden (UK) and Hans K. A. S. von Euler-Chelpin (Sweden), for research of fermentation of sugars

Physics: Prince Louis Victor de Broglie (France), for discovery of the wave character of electrons

Physiology or Medicine: Christiaan Eijkman (Netherlands), for discovery of the antineuritic vitamins; and Sir Frederick Hopkins (UK), for discovery of growth-promoting vitamins

Penicillin is first used to fight an infection.
Albert Einstein proposes the unified field theory.
German psychiatrist Hans Berger develops the electroencephalogram (EEG) for recording brain waves.