Date: October 18, 1929
Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula. Date: November 18, 1929 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other…
The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. Date: August 8, 1929 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 8 📅 Events on this day in 1929 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1929Inaugural Monaco Grand Prix Won by William Grover-Williams, April 14, 1929Point Grey and South Vancouver Amalgamate…
President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing the 96,000 acres (390 km2) Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Date: February 26, 1929 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 26 📅 Events on this day in 1929 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1929Hebron Massacre in British Mandate Palestine, August 23, 1929First…
The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers). Date: July 24, 1929 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1929 📅 On This Day…
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago. Date: February 14, 1929 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 14 📅 Events on this day in 1929 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1929Photius II Becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of…
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible. Date: September 24, 1929 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 24 📅 Events on this day in 1929 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1929Assassination Attempt on Argentine…