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.

Copleston's family was Anglican ( his uncle, Reginald Stephen Copleston, was a bishop of Calcutta ), but he converted to Roman Catholicism while a pupil at Marlborough College, and became a Jesuit in 1929.

Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

Kenneth Hawks and Mary Astor eventually married in February 1928, while Bill Hawks and Bessie Love married in December 1929.

Among his written works there are Siete años enterrado vivo en una de las mazmorras de Gomezuela: Horripilante relato de un resucitado ( 1932 ) and Mis prisiones, mis destierros y mi vida ( 1929 ) which talk about his many adventures while living his life as an adventurer, activist and vagabond, as well as his thought and the many times he was imprisoned in different countries.

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in 1929.

The writer Theodor Fontane, painter Adolf von Menzel, and Dadaist Kurt Schwitters were all guests ; Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacus Communist movement leader read a lot here and even made some key political speeches from the pavement terrace, while author Erich Kästner wrote part of his 1929 bestseller for children, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ), on the same terrace and made the café the setting for an important scene in the book.

The US top marginal income tax rate went from 25 % to 63 % in 1932 and to 79 % in 1936 while the bottom rate increased over 10 fold from. 375 % in 1929 to 4 % in 1932 Successful attacks on partially backed currencies which forced many countries off the gold standard and reduced confidence in the financial system, and a financial system, further damaged by the bank panics of the 1930s were also factors, as was inclement weather such as the drought resulting in the US Dust Bowl.

Between 1929 and 1933, the gross national product of the United States decreased by 33 % while the rate of unemployment increased to 25 % ( with industrial unemployment alone rising to approximately 35 % – U. S. employment was still over 25 % agricultural ).

Although Wrigley Field has been the home of the Cubs since 1916, it has yet to see the Cubs win a World Series, even though it has hosted several ( 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938, and 1945, the last time the Cubs appeared in a World Series ), the last World Series win by the Cubs ( 1908 ) happened while the Cubs called West Side Park home.

The couple lived in Germany while Curry completed his dissertation, then, in 1929, moved to State College, Pennsylvania where Curry accepted a position at Penn State College.

The discovery of isotopic oxygen in 1929 led to a divergence in atomic weight representation, with isotopically weighted oxygen ( i. e., naturally occurring oxygen atomic weight ) given a value of exactly 16 atomic mass units ( amu ) in chemistry, while pure < sup > 16 </ sup > O ( oxygen-16 ) was given the mass value of exactly 16 amu in physics.

However the results at the 1929 general election were disappointing: the Liberals increased their support only to 60 or so seats, while Labour became the largest party for the first time.

In 1929, there was an incident on the cruiser Emden, which while in port in a visit to Colombia, a group of sailors had a party during which they wrapped red headbands around their heads and sang the Internationale while being very rude to their officers after they complained about the amount of noise.

According to government statistics, U. S. imports from Europe decreased from a 1929 high of $ 1, 334 million to just $ 390 million during 1932, while U. S. exports to Europe decreased from $ 2, 341 million in 1929 to $ 784 million in 1932.

For example, in Love ( 1927 ) a title card reads, " I like to be alone "; in The Single Standard ( 1929 ) her character says, " I am walking alone because I want to be alone "; in Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ) she says to a suitor, " This time I rise ... and fall ... alone "; in Inspiration ( 1931 ) she tells a fickle lover, " I just want to be alone for a little while "; in Mata Hari ( 1931 ) she says to her new amour, " I never look ahead.

Her book, The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand ’ s Culinary History, states that the first Australian pavlova recipe was created in 1935 while an earlier version was penned in 1929 in the rural magazine.

Barrymore collapsed on his boat, The Mariner, in 1929 off the coast of Mexico while on honeymoon with wife Dolores, requiring admittance into doctor's care.

Those who maintained fellowship with the Watch Tower Society adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931, while those who severed ties with the Society formed their own groups including the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1918, the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement in 1919, and the Dawn Bible Students Association in 1929.

Yet most American movie theaters, especially outside of urban areas, were still not equipped for sound: while the number of sound cinemas grew from 100 to 800 between 1928 and 1929, they were still vastly outnumbered by silent theaters, which had actually grown in number as well, from 22, 204 to 22, 544.

In Will Therapy, published in German in 1929-31, Rank uses the term “ here and now ” for the first time in the psychotherapeutic literature: “ Freud made the repression historical, that is, misplaced it into the childhood of the individual and then wanted to release it from there, while as a matter of fact the same tendency is working here and now ” ( Rank, 1929 – 31, p. 39 ).

Nipp made his debut in the animated short The Opry House ( 1929 ), in which he posed as a snake for a snake-charming act — continuing to smoke his pipe all the while.

They gradually stripped off the blackface makeup during live 1929 performances while continuing to talk in dialect.

" Historian and novelist C. S. Forester, writing in 1929, compared the Nile to the great naval actions in history and concluded that " it still only stands rivalled by Tsu-Shima as an example of the annihilation of one fleet by another of approximately equal material force ".

Upon the resignation of SS commander Erhard Heiden in 1929, Himmler assumed the position of Reichsführer-SS with Hitler's approval ; he still carried out his duties at propaganda headquarters.

One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.

Some other interesting buildings are the town hall ( Stadhuis ), a 16th-century building that was badly damaged by a fire in 1929 but has its Renaissance façade designed by Lieven de Key still standing ; the Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland ( 1596, restored in 1878 ); De Waag ( weigh house in Dutch ), built by Pieter Post ; the former court-house ( Gerecht ); a corn-grinding windmill, now home to a museum ( Molen de Valk ) ( 1743 ); the old gymnasium ( Latijnse School ) ( 1599 ) and the city carpenter's yard and wharf ( Stadstimmerwerf ) ( 1612 ), both built by Lieven de Key ( c. 1560 – 1627 ).

It first flew in January 1929 and was an improvement over the earlier machine but the rudder was still unsatisfactory.

It was originally marketed as an underwater telegraph, rather than as sonar, but was later very successful, its Canadian inventor awarded the " Scientific American Magazine Gold Medal of Safety " in 1929 from the American Museum of Safety, an organization for ship captains ; some were still in use during World War II.

Shukhov tower on the Oka River | Shukhov towers built in Nizhny Novgorod suburbs near Dzerzhinsk in 1927 – 1929 ; one of them is still in place

The Hove Lagoon Model Yacht Club was formed in 1929 and still very actively sailing model yachts on the Lagoon today.

In 1929 the organization began the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, which is still held annually in Chicago in early August.

Between February 2006 and November 2008, the cloverleaf interchange with U. S. Route 1 / 9 in Woodbridge Township, which was the first cloverleaf interchange in the United States built in 1929 when this portion of Route 35 was still a part of Route 4, was replaced with a partial cloverleaf interchange, costing $ 34 million.

Edward Doheny was preparing for his criminal trial for bribery in the Teapot Dome Scandal, and on February 16, 1929, Ned Doheny and, Hugh Plunkett, his friend and secretary, who were to testify in the trial, were killed in a murder that still remains unsolved.

Another retail landmark in Menands was the Montgomery Ward Retail Store and Warehouse built in 1929, it was one of nine similar buildings built in the 1920s, and one of four that still remain.

Despite modest success, Rothko still needed to supplement his income, and in 1929 he began giving classes in painting and clay sculpture at the Center Academy, where he remained as teacher until 1952.

The Texas Rangers did have a stabilizing effect, but Borger still struggled with lawlessness and violence into the 1930s, climaxing with the murder of District Attorney John A. Holmes by an assassin on September 18, 1929.

Though Chief Kanosh still has a headstone in an honored location of the city cemetery, it was not until 1929 that the U. S. Government granted official recognition of the tribe and deeded them a small reserve near their ancestral lands at Corn Creek.

Since 1929 both parties in Scotland have had to be at least 16 years old, but they still may marry without parental consent.

While still an actor, Hart-Davis met the young Peggy Ashcroft whom he married in 1929.

Historians still debate the question: did the 1929 Crash spark The Depression, or did it merely coincide with the bursting of a loose credit-inspired economic bubble?

The High Commissioner received al-Husseini twice officially on 1 October 1929 and a week later, and the latter complained of pro-Zionist bias in an area where the Arab population still viewed Great Britain favorably.

On 7 December 1929, the constitution was amended to give the president the sweeping executive and legislative authority he formally still has.

In 1929 and still under French occupation the town celebrated the 400th anniversary of the Protestation.