October 1929 in History

Events in History

Oct 3 British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR

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Oct 3 Julius Curtius succeeds Gustav Stresemann as German foreign minister

Oct 3 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia

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Oct 7 Ramsay MacDonald is first British Prime Minister to address US Congress

Oct 8 Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan and drives out Habibullah Ghazi

Event of Interest

Oct 9 Part of lost Piri Reis World Map, compiled by Ottoman general Piri Reis in 1513, rediscovered in the Topaki Palace Library, Istanbul. Earliest map of Columbus's voyages. [1]

Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus

Event of Interest

Oct 11 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.

Department Store Founder James Cash Penney

Oct 11 Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle" premieres in London
Oct 18 Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law
Oct 20 Bayshore Highway opens (San Francisco)

Event of Interest

Oct 22 8th French government of Aristide Briand falls

Oct 22 James H Scullin forms Australia government

Another Panic, Another Market Crash

Oct 24 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

A victim of the Wall Street crash puts his car up for sale in a desperate bid to raise cash

Oct 24 Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails

Event of Interest

Oct 25 Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal - 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail

Oct 28 Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
Oct 29 "Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression"
Oct 30 The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Germany

Birthdays in History

Oct 2 John Zochonis, British industrialist (PZ Cussons) and philanthropist (d. 2013)
Oct 3 Bert Stern, American photographer, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2013)
Oct 5 Autherine Lucy, 1st African-American to enroll in University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, born in Shiloh, Alabama
Oct 5 Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American naval officer and astronaut (Gemini 11; Apollo 12), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2017)
Oct 7 Harold Zirin, American astronomer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
Oct 7 Robert Westall, British author, born in North Shields, United Kingdom (d. 1993)
Oct 8 Betty Boothroyd, English politician (1st female Speaker of the UK House of Commons 1992-2000), born in Dewsbury, England (d. 2023)
Oct 12 Robert Coles, American author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973), born in Boston, Massachusetts

Hubert Dreyfus (1929-2017)

Oct 15 American philosopher (What Computers Can't Do), born in Terre Haute, Indiana

Oct 16 Bill Green, American politician (Rep-R-NY, 1978-93), born in New York City (d. 2002)
Oct 18 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, president of Nicaragua (1990- )
Oct 21 George Stinney, African-American wrongfully executed at 14 for murder, born in Pinewood, South Carolina (d. 1944)
Oct 21 Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi author (The Left Hand of Darkness, Tombs of Atuan), born in Berkeley, California (d. 2018)
Oct 24 Hubert Aquin, French Canadian novelist, political activist and editor, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1977)
Oct 24 Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright (The Tied Up Balloon), born in Kalimanitza, Montana region, Bulgaria (d. 2004)
Oct 25 Peter Rohmkorf, German writer, born in Dortmund, Germany (d. 2008)
Oct 25 Roger John Tayler, British astrophysicist (author of The Origin of the Chemical Elements), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1997)
Oct 26 Georgette Amowitz, French choreographer and educator, born in Paris, France (d. 2008)
Oct 27 Marino Iandiorio, Italian canned tomato pioneer, born in Naples (d. 1994)
Oct 28 Airline Falconer, 1st child born in aircraft, born in the skies above Miami, Florida
Oct 28 John Hollander, American poet and literary critic, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2013)

Weddings in History

George Marshall

Oct 12 US military leader George Marshall (48) weds Katherine Tupper

Willie Sutton

Oct 21 Bank robber Willie Sutton (28) weds Louise Leudemann

Deaths in History

Oct 1 Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor, dies at 67

Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929)

Oct 3 German chancellor (1923) who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, dies of a stroke at 51

Elijah McCoy (1844-1929)

Oct 10 Canadian-American inventor (57 patents), dies at 86

Oct 12 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
Oct 20 José Batlle y Ordóñez, President of Uruguay (1899, 1903-7, 1911-15), dies at 73
Oct 20 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), dies at 76
Oct 22 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), dies at 69
Oct 23 Thomas Frederick Tout, British historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
Oct 24 Moorfield Storey, American lawyer, pacifist, civil rights leader (co-founder of NAACP & president, 1909-29), dies at 84
Oct 24 Peter J. Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People), dies at 74
Oct 26 Arno Holz, German writer (Phantasus), dies at 66