* 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1929 – André Previn, German composer and conductor

* 1866 – Princess Viktoria of Prussia ( d. 1929 )

* 1929 – Mukhran Machavariani, Georgian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1929 – Ira Levin, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 1929 – Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist ( The Foundations )

* 1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician ( d. 2007 )

* 1929 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist ( d. 1979 )

* 1929 – Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician ( d. 1979 )

* 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer ( d. 2006 )

* 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic " World Teacher ", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inverter and businessman, invented the phonograph ( b. 1851 )

* 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist ( b. 1857 )

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929 – 89, ( 1990 ), the major study in English excerpt and text search

* 1929 – Don Larsen, American baseball player

* 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.

* 1876 – Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest ( d. 1929 )

* 1929 – Ronnie Biggs, English criminal, part of the Great Train Robbery of 1963

New York became the financial capital of the world, but the downside was that the Crash of 1929 hurled the entire world into the Great Depression.

Originally founded in 1929 as Associated Telephone Utilities, it went bankrupt in 1933 during the Great Depression, and reorganized as General Telephone in 1934.

In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.

On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

Lee Ohanian, from UCLA takes a controversial stance, arguing that Hoover adopted pro-labor policies after the 1929 stock market crash that " accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the Great Depression ".

In 1929, Italy was hit hard by the Great Depression.

Kathleen Kenyon's first field experience was as a photographer for the pioneering excavations at Great Zimbabwe in 1929, led by Gertrude Caton-Thompson.

Companies such as DuPont, US Steel, and General Electric that merged during the Great Merger Movement were able to keep their dominance in their respective sectors through 1929, and in some cases today, due to growing technological advances of their products, patents, and brand recognition by their customers.

He was a member of the Politburo ( 1924 – 1929 ) and Central Committee ( 1917 – 1937 ), chairman of the Communist International ( Comintern, 1926 – 1929 ), and the editor in chief of Pravda ( 1918 – 1929 ), the journal Bolshevik ( 1924 – 1929 ), Izvestia ( 1934 – 1936 ), and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

* 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.

Unfortunately the worldwide Great Depression of the time, triggered by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, meant that most of the plans remained on the drawing board.

* Great Depression – August 1929 to September 1939: the longest ( and most severe ) recession of the 20th century

In 1929 before the Great Depression hit, over 25, 000 tons of stainless steel were manufactured and sold in the US.

The Great Depression was a major economic recession that ran from 1929 to the late 1930s.

The Great Depression originated in the United States in late 1929 and quickly spread to the world.

After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the largest stock market crash in American history, most of the decade was consumed by an economic downfall called The Great Depression that had a traumatic effect worldwide.

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* Economic boom ended by " Black Tuesday " ( October 29, 1929 ); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression.