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| 1929 |
| | | Stalin concludes his long-standing rivalry with Trotsky, expelling him from the USSR three years after removing him from the Politburo | |
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| 1929 |
| | | The Lateran Treaty, between the Holy See and the state of Italy, establishes the Vatican City as a free state within the wider nation | |
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| 1929 |
| | | French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip | |
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| 1929 |
| | | On St Valentine's Day six members of the Bugs Moran gang in Chicago are lined up against a wall and machine-gunned by rival gangsters | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Alexander, king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, gives his kingdom the less cumbersome name of Yugoslavia | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Labour is the largest party in the UK parliament but still has no overall majority, so Ramsay MacDonald forms his second minority government | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Russia adopts a Five Year Plan aiming to boost industrial output by 200% within that period | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr marry | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms, closely reflecting his own wartime experiences | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Alfred Hitchcock directs Blackmail, the first British talkie, with a climax on the roof of the British Museum | |
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| 1929 |
| | | US astronomer Edwin Hubble uses the red shift of light from galaxies to demonstrate that they are receding from each other and the universe is expanding | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman to sit in the British cabinet, as minister of labour | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Italian writer Alberto Moravia wins success with his first novel, The Time of Indifference | |
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| 1929 |
| | | 20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Jazz musician Fats Waller begins recording with his Buddies, one of the first racially integrated groups in the US music industry | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven | |
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| 1929 |
| | | George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Baseball star Ty Cobb retires with a career record of 2245 runs, that will remain unbeaten into the twenty-first century | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Plutarco Calles establishes the National Revolutionary Party that will hold power in Mexico, under different names, for the rest of the century | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair | |
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| 1929 |
| | | The Marx Brothers (now Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo) make their Hollywood debut with The Cocoanuts | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Panic selling on Thursday October 24 triggers a Wall Street stock market crash and a spate of suicides | |
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| 1929 |
| | | The British Broadcasting Corporation uses Logie Baird's system for its first trial TV broadcasts | |
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| 1929 |
| | | US author Thomas Wolfe publishes an autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel | |
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| 1929 |
| | | US explorer Richard E. Byrd and two companions make the first flight over the South Pole, in a Ford Tri-Motor | |
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| 1929 |
| | | English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions | |
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| 1929 |
| | | English poet Robert Graves puts behind him an England he dislikes in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That | |
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| 1930 |
| | | René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The Irish National War Memorial opens in Dublin, designed by Edwin Lutyens in a garden setting | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Joseph von Sternberg directs Marlene Dietrich in the film The Blue Angel, shot in both German and English, making her an immediate international star | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi leads a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the sea to defy the British salt tax, thus launching a campaign of civil disobedience | |
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| 1930 |
| | | In The Fur Trade in Canada Harold Innis traces the economic development linking the trade and the nation | |
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