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Significant Events and Figures of 1929

This quiz tests your knowledge of significant events and notable figures from the year 1929, including political announcements, scientific achievements, and cultural milestones.

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1 President ________ announced to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash were behind the nation, and that the American people had regained faith in the economy.

2 ________ – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (b.

3 ________ – William Russell, American actor (b.

4 Within the year, Britain, Australia and New Zealand began a joint Antarctic Research Expedition, and the German airship Graf Zeppelin began a round-the-world flight (ended ________).

5 July 1 – ________, American biologist, Nobel laureate

6 ________ – Imre Kertesz, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate

7 Jews would not return to Hebron until after the ________ in 1967.

8 ________ – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b.

9 October 18 – Women are announced to be persons by the ________ in Britain.

10 ________ – Amandus Adamson, Estonian sculptor (b.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the United States Senate has met in closed session 54 times since 1929, but closed sessions of the United States House of Representatives have taken place only five times since 1825.
  • the Alexander Aircraft Company, which produced Eaglerock biplanes in Colorado, was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world for a brief period between 1928 and 1929.
  • the Ascension Convent in the Moscow Kremlin, known as a traditional burial place of Muscovite tsarinas, was dismantled in 1929 to make room for the Red Commanders School.
  • in 1929 the Graf Zeppelin completed a circumnavigation of the globe in 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes.
  • after Oklahoma Governor Henry S. Johnston was impeached in 1929, it would be 60 years before another U.S. Governor is impeached.
  • capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969.
  • Jatin Das, an Indian freedom fighter, died after sixty three days of hunger strike demanding rights for prisoners and undertrials in Lahore jail in 1929.
  • William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research.
  • football (soccer) player Law Adam of Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929, but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland a year later.
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