by Eric & Greg

1929 started off bad with St. Valentine's Day Massacre. It ended even worse when the stock market crashed. In 1929 the average weekly salary is $28 and seventy-one percent of U.S. families have incomes below $2,500.

• Graf Zeppelin makes flight around the world.
• Gang warfare on Chicago streets reached a peak of brutality on February 14 in the "St. Valentine Day Massacre" Members of the George "Bugs" Moran gang are ran out at 10:30 in a Street garage and bootleg liquor depot.
• Al Capone's mob guns down their rivals in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
• Herbert Hoover inaugurated. The first Oscars are presented on May 16.
• In December construction begins on the Empire State Building to make it the tallest building in the world.
• Kodak makes first 16mm film.
• Buck Rogers comic strip makes its debut.
• October 29 the Stock market crashes. more here
• Daniel Gerber starts selling strained baby foods in grocery stores.
• Ford introduces the first station wagon that has a boxy wooden body that provides more space for cargo and passengers.
• "Popeye" the sailor man appears for the first time in 1929.
• Philadelphia Athletics, managed by Connie Mack, wins the World Series by defeating the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1.
• Grumman Aircraft has its beginnings in a Baldwin, Long Island, Leroy Grumman and Leon "Jake" Swirlbul opened aircraft repair shop. William T. Schwendler was the chief engineer.

2nd Annual Academy Awards
Best Picture: The Broadway Melody
Best Actress: Mary Pickford for Coquette
Best Actor: Warner Baxter for In Old Arizona

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