WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1929
Find out what all happened May to December 1929

The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released. (31. May 1929)

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

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

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

The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. (23. July 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 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. (8. August 1929)

Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", ostensibly as an effort to spread socialism to the countryside. (27. December 1929)

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

U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole. (29. November 1929)

The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed. (16. August 1929)

In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public. (7. November 1929)

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

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

Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city. (24. August 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 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)

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)