Top News Stories from 1929
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Frank B. Kellogg (US)
More World Statistics... - Trotsky is expelled from U.S.S.R.
- The Lateran Treaty establishes an independent Vatican City.
- First large-scale Jewish-Arab violence caused by a clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Herbert C. Hoover
Vice President: Charles Curtis
Population: 121,767,000
More U.S. Statistics... - St. Valentine's Day gangland massacre in Chicago (Feb. 14).
- Stock market prices plummet (Nov.-Dec.). U.S. securities lose $26 billion, marking the first financial disaster of the Great Depression
Economics
Federal spending: $3.13 billion
Consumer Price Index: $17.1
Unemployment: 3.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
Philadelphia A's d. Chicago Cubs (4-1)Stanley Cup
Boston d. NY RangersWimbledon
Women: Helen Wills d. H. Jacobs (6-1 6-2)Men: Henri Cochet d. J. Borotra (6-4 6-3 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Clyde Van DusenNCAA Football Champions
Notre Dame (9-0-0)Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Drama: Street Scene, Elmer L. Rice
Academy Award, Best Picture: Wings (Paramount Famous Lasky)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Thomas Mann (Germany)
More Entertainment Awards... Events
- The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.
- CBS is founded by William S. Paley.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Sir Arthur Harden (UK) and Hans K. A. S. von Euler-Chelpin (Sweden), for research of fermentation of sugars
Physics: Prince Louis Victor de Broglie (France), for discovery of the wave character of electrons
Physiology or Medicine: Christiaan Eijkman (Netherlands), for discovery of the antineuritic vitamins; and Sir Frederick Hopkins (UK), for discovery of growth-promoting vitamins
Physiology or Medicine: Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - Penicillin is first used to fight an infection.
- Albert Einstein proposes the unified field theory.
- German psychiatrist Hans Berger develops the electroencephalogram (EEG) for recording brain waves.
