The subject of immortality brings to mind a vivid incident which took place in 1929 at Montreux in Switzerland.

A unified set of regulations, applicable to all areas, was issued in 1929, and a complementary series of demographic inquiries in selected areas was instituted at the same time.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The first awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.

The Annales was founded and edited by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in 1929, while they were teaching at the University of Strasbourg and later in Paris.

He went on to remain there in a mansion which he may have extended, although there is no source attesting to any significant building activity at Aachen in his time, apart from the building of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen ( since 1929, cathedral ) and the palatial presentation halls.

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

The club played its earliest seasons at the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground Campo Testaccio ; this was opened in November 1929.

His most notable successes were first-place finishes at Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hanover 1926, the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament.

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

Beechcraft was not Beech's first company, as he had previously formed Travel Air in 1924 and the design numbers used at Beechcraft followed the sequence started at Travel Air, and were then continued at Curtiss-Wright, after Travel Air had been absorbed into the much larger company in 1929.

David Lloyd George adopted a programme at the 1929 general election entitled We Can Conquer Unemployment !, although by this stage the Liberals had declined to third-party status.

Jefferson died in Chicago at 10 am on December 19, 1929, of what his death certificate called " probably acute myocarditis ".

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

In 1929, Heisenberg gave a series of invited lectures at the University of Chicago explaining the new field of quantum mechanics.

In 1929 the Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, who would solve the German Enigma cipher machine in December 1932, began studying actuarial statistics at Göttingen.

Tombaugh was employed at the Lowell Observatory from 1929 to 1945.

Three years later the Addicks won the Division Three championship in 1929 and they remained at the Division Two level for four years.

Original 1929 Decca release of Sea Drift by Frederick Delius | Delius, first published recording of the work, but deleted by 1936

The 3-disc 1929 recording of Delius's Sea Drift, arising from the Delius Festival that year, suffered by being crammed onto six sides and was withdrawn before 1936, probably as a result of the standardisation on 78 revolutions per minute.

Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 ( he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908 ); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910 ; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works.

He was the second of four sons ( there were also ten daughters ) born to Julius Delius ( 1822 – 1901 ) and his wife Elise Pauline, née Krönig ( 1838 – 1929 ).

" Hadley cites, in particular, the six-day Delius festival at the Queen's Hall in 1929 under Beecham's general direction, in the presence of the composer in his bath-chair.

After the 1929 London festival The Times music critic wrote that Delius " belongs to no school, follows no tradition and is like no other composer in the form, content or style of his music ".

For the rest of his lifetime Delius's more popular pieces were performed in England and abroad, often under the sponsorship of Beecham, who was primarily responsible for the Delius festival in October – November 1929.

Beecham also asked Heseltine to help organise a festival to honour Delius, which the conductor was planning for October 1929.

The city of Durango attracts close to one million visitors each summer for its annual month-long Feria Nacional De Durango ( Durango's National Festival ) which has taken place since 1929.

From 1960 to 1968, the Speedway Golf Course, originally built in 1929, hosted a PGA Tour event, the 500 Festival Open Invitation, in conjunction with Indy 500 race week.

The first Malvern Drama Festival, which took place in 1929, was dedicated to Bernard Shaw and planned by Sir Barry Jackson.

The Salzburg Festival mounted Der Rosenkavalier for the first time on 12 August 1929 in a production conducted by Clemens Krauss.

Its English première was at the first Malvern Drama Festival in August 1929.

Moorooka State School is the oldest of the two, being founded in 1929, and hosts an annual Festival in July.

Hirst played three more first-class games ; in 1921 – 22 he played two games for the Europeans cricket team in India, and in 1929, aged 58, he made a final appearance for Yorkshire in a Scarborough Festival match against the MCC.

Some 19 surrealist photographs, produced by Nougé between 1929 and 1930, have been published and displayed posthumously notably, and most recently, at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2009

With the exception of 1933, she sang at the Three Choirs Festival every year from 1929 to 1955.

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

The school turned its first profit under his leadership in 1929.

Under Khrushchev, an investigation into the matter concluded that the Central Committee had lost its ruling function under Stalin ; from 1929 onwards all decisions in the Central Committee were taken unanimously.

She made her film debut, under her real name, in the backstage musical Song of Love ( 1929 ).

The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.

The principality's first Grand Prix was organised in 1929 by Anthony Noghès, under the auspices of Prince Louis II, through the Automobile Club de Monaco ( ACM ).

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 ).

Nehru's political apprenticeship under Gandhi lasted from 1919 to 1929.

Nehru elaborated the policies of the Congress and a future Indian nation under his leadership in 1929.

He graduated ( with first class honours ) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under Charles Scott Sherrington at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1929.

In 1929, at the age of 23, he completed his doctoral dissertation under Hans Hahn's supervision.

Social developments in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1941 included the relinquishment of the relaxed social control and allowance of experimentation under Lenin to Stalin's promotion of a rigid and authoritarian society based upon discipline – mixing traditional Russian values with Stalin's interpretation of Marxism.

On 6 February 1930, it was renamed Stresemannstraße after Gustav Stresemann ( 1878 – 1929 ), the first Chancellor to serve under President Ebert.

In 1927, KTH was finally granted the right to confer its own doctorates, under the designation Teknologie doktor ( Doctor of Technology ), and the first five doctors were created in 1929.

Later under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler between 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the " Schutz-Staffel " and grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the Third Reich.

This second version of the SS, sometimes known as the " Pre-Himmler SS ", existed from 1925 to 1929 ; the more recognizable SS under Heinrich Himmler then came into being.

The metal was later marketed under the ' Staybrite ' brand by Firth Vickers in England and was used for the new entrance canopy for the Savoy Hotel in London in 1929.

In 1929, the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the species under the genus Panthera using the scientific name Panthera tigris.

Thus, in the middle of 1929 he accepted Paul Tillich's offer to present an Habilitation on Kierkegaard, which Adorno eventually submitted under the title The Construction of the Aesthetic.

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The devastating Wall Street Crash in October 1929 drew a line under the prosperous 1920s.

In 1929, Robert E. Howard ( under the pseudonym " Patrick Howard ") published a poem, " Skulls and Dust ", about Cambyses's death.

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

At the 1929 election, Lyons entered Federal politics, winning the seat of Wilmot in Labor's landslide victory under James Scullin.

Construction began in 1928 under the auspices of the Wank-Bahn AG and the cable car entered service in 1929 .< Ref >" Meilensteine ".