Email thisOn Wall Street, the stock market crashes on October 29, and $30 billion disappears, ushering in the Great Depression.
1928
World History Timeline - 1929
In the U.S.S.R., dictator Josef Stalin expels Leon Trotsky.
The first round-the-world flight ever is completed by the airship Graf Zeppelin, named for its inventor.
Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming, is first used to fight infection, a landmark in the history of medicine.
In literature, William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury, and Ernest Hemingway pens A Farewell to Arms.
The Museum of Modern Art opens with an exhibition of paintings by Van Gogh and impressionists such as Cezanne.
In the fight for control of the bootleg liquor trade in Prohibition Chicago, 7 gang members are killed in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
A wildlife sanctuary is set aside for lions, as the African Serengeti Park is established.
In astronomy, Edwin Hubble observes that galaxies are moving away from each other and he formulates Hubble's Law.
The Lateran Treaty restores rule of Vatican City to the pope, now sovereign of over 100 acres in the heart of Rome.
King Alexander proclaims a dictatorship and changes his Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes to the name Yugoslavia.
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