The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into …

William Edwin Foster (August 19, 1929 – January 7, 2016) was the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University, University of Utah, Duke University, University of South Carolina, and Northwestern University.He is best known for guiding Duke to the NCAA championship game in 1978, and that year he was named national Coach of the Year by the National Association of …

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring George Bancroft, Paul Lukas, Olga Baclanova, and Nancy Carroll.The story and screenplay were written by Doris Anderson.. Originally made as a silent film, The Wolf of Wall Street was completely re-filmed with sound, becoming Bancroft's first talkie. [original research?

The twelfth edition of the South American Championship was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1 to 17 November 1929. The 1928 edition was postponed due to the participation of Chile, Uruguay and Argentina in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where Uruguay and Argentina won gold and silver respectively.. The participating countries were …

The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929 and resulted in a hung parliament.It stands as the fourth of six instances under the secret ballot, and the first of three under universal suffrage, in which a party has lost on the popular vote but won the highest number (known as "a plurality") of seats versus all other parties (the others are 1874, January …

The 1929 Murchison earthquake occurred at 10:17 am on 17 June. It struck the Murchison region of the South Island, with an estimated magnitude of 7.3, and was felt throughout New Zealand.There were 17 deaths, mostly as a result of landslides triggered by the earthquake. The rumbling sound of the earthquake was loud enough to be heard at New Plymouth, more than …

Die Bremen wurde am 18. Juni 1927 auf der Deschimag-Werft AG „Weser“ in Bremen auf Kiel gelegt. Am 16. August 1928 wurde das Schiff beim Stapellauf von Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg auf den Namen Bremen getauft. Die Innenausstattung wurde von namhaften Architekten entworfen, zu großen Teilen von F.A. Breuhaus, Bruno Paul, dem Bremer Carl …

Op donderdag 24 oktober 1929 begonnen de aandelenkoersen op de New York Stock Exchange extreem te dalen. In de paniek die hierdoor ontstond, probeerden beleggers hun aandelen te verkopen waardoor de koersen volledig inzakten. Aan het einde van de dag (die de geschiedenis zou ingaan als Zwarte Donderdag) waren de meeste aandelen sterk gedaald.Na een kleine …

Le krach de 1929 est une crise boursière qui se déroula à la Bourse de New York entre le jeudi 24 octobre et le mardi 29 octobre 1929.Cet événement est l'un des plus célèbres de l'histoire boursière, marquant le début de la Grande Dépression, la plus grande crise économique du XX e siècle. Les jours-clés du krach ont hérité de surnoms distincts : le 24 octobre est appelé ...

The Great Crash, 1929 is a book written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955. It is an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929.The book argues that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can …

The 1929 German Referendum was an attempt during the Weimar Republic to use popular legislation to annul the agreement in the Young Plan between the German government and the World War I opponents of the German Reich regarding the amount and conditions of reparations payments. The referendum was the result of the initiative "Against the Enslavement of the …

The Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929 (Chinese: 中東路事件, Russian: Конфликт на Китайско-Восточной железной дороге) was an armed conflict between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang of the Republic of China over the Chinese Eastern Railway (also known as CER).. The conflict was the first major combat test of the ...

The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act (Pub.L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere.Additionally, the formation of the U.S. Border Patrol was …

Sally is a 1929 Hollywood film. It is the fourth all-sound, all-color feature film made, and it was photographed in the Technicolor process. It was the sixth feature film to contain color that had been released by Warner Bros., the first five were The Desert Song (1929), On with the Show! (1929), Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Paris (1929), and The Show of Shows (1929).