WHAT HAPPENED IN 1929.
Look what happened the 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)

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

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

Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen. (24. December 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)