1929 (idea)

• The Great Depression begins on "Black Thursday," October 24, as the New York Stock Exchange crashes, setting off decade-long a worldwide financial crisis.
• In the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, gunmen loyal to Al Capone's south-side Italian gang dress as policement to capture and gun down seven members of the rival north-side Irish gang led by led by George 'Bugs' Moran.

These people were born in 1929:

• American civil rights leader the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat.
• Holocaust diarist Anne Frank.
• Canadian architect Frank Gehry.

These people died in 1929:

• American gunfighter Wyatt Earp.
• American bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson.

1928 - 1929 - 1930

20th century

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