WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1929
Find out what all happened January to October 1929

Fascist Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty. (11. February 1929)

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

The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. (31. January 1929)

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

In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released. (20. January 1929)

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

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

Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people. (6. January 1929)

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

The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires. (1. June 1929)

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti, tagged as the messianic "World Teacher", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him. (3. August 1929)

King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship). (6. January 1929)

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

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

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

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 former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver. (1. January 1929)

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