WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1929
Find out what all happened September to November 1929

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

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

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

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

Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic. (23. October 1929)

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

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

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

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

1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula. (18. November 1929)

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