WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1929
Find out what all happened March to November 1929

The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. (8. August 1929)

Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible. (25. September 1929)

The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany. (30. October 1929)

In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are awarded. (16. May 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). (24. July 1929)

The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations. (27. July 1929)

Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. (7. October 1929)

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs". (3. October 1929)

Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. (8. April 1929)

Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city. (23. August 1929)

A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123. (15. May 1929)

Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. (8. June 1929)

JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states. (11. October 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. (18. October 1929)

Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives. (6. April 1929)

"Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange. (24. October 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. (29. October 1929)

Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval. (28. October 1929)

The Lateran Treaty was ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. (7. June 1929)

Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost. (7. September 1929)

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