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History on the year of 1929

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01 Jan 1929 WW2 Ira Eaker served as the chief pilot aboard the aircraft "Question Mark" on a quest to break the endurance flight record. 
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01 Jan 1929 WW2 Trento was commissioned into service. 
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01 Jan 1929 WW2 Andrew McNaughton was promoted to the rank of major-general. 
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07 Jan 1929 WW2 Ira Eaker completed a 7-day flight aboard "Question Mark", breaking the endurance flight record. He and the entire crew won Distinguished Flying Cross medals for this feat. 
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10 Jan 1929 WW2 P2Y aircraft took its first flight, piloted by Lieutenant A. W. Gorton out of Naval Air Station Anacostia in Washington DC, United States. 
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23 Jan 1929 WW2 Starting on this date and lasting through 27 Jan 1929, the US Navy aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Saratoga participated in their first exercise. Sailing with the opposing forces of Fleet Problem IX, Saratoga was detached on a southerly sweep against the Panama Canal, where she arrived undetected, and launched 69 aircraft on a mock dawn raid. 
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29 Jan 1929 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed the Engineer Office at the Aircraft Depot in Iraq. 
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31 Jan 1929 WW2 London was commissioned into service. 
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31 Jan 1929 WW2 He Yingqin was made a member of the finance committee. 
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01 Feb 1929 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. 
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07 Feb 1929 WW2 USS Arizona passed through the Panama Canal. 
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10 Feb 1929 RELIGIOUS In London, renowned Baptist clergyman and devotional author F. B. Meyer, 81, preached his last sermon. He soon entered a nursing home where his health failed rapidly, and he died March 28.
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11 Feb 1929 WW2 Italy and Vatican City signed the Lateran Treaty. 
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19 Feb 1929 WW2 Douglas Bader made his first solo flight. 
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23 Feb 1929 WW2 Henry Stimson stepped down from his position as the Governor-General of the Philippines. 
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04 Mar 1929 WW2 He Yingqin stepped down as a member of the budget committee. 
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16 Mar 1929 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was made the commanding officer of the Japanese China Garrison Army. 
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18 Mar 1929 WW2 Devonshire was commissioned into service. 
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21 Mar 1929 WW2 Crown Prince Olav of Norway married his first and second cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden at Oslo Cathedral in Norway. 
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26 Mar 1929 RELIGIOUS The Congregation of the Sacraments within the Catholic Church published a document instructing that a plate of silver or metal gilt be held under the chin of the communicant at the reception of the Holy Communion.
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28 Mar 1929 WW2 Henry Stimson became the United States Secretary of State. 
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28 Mar 1929 WW2 Captain J. D. Campbell was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes, replacing Captain G. Hopwood. 
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28 Mar 1929 WW2 Japan withdrew troops from Shandong Province, China, moving them into the Japanese base in nearby Qingdao. 
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29 Mar 1929 WW2 In Russia, a new law was passed which restored to factory managers complete authority to direct or punish the workforce without reference to Trade Unions. 
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29 Mar 1929 WW2 Mutsu was assigned to Japanese Navy Battleship Division 3. 
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01 Apr 1929 WW2 HMS Falcon was established in southeastern Malta. 
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03 Apr 1929 WW2 RMS Queen Mary was ordered. 
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03 Apr 1929 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt gave a 30-minute-long radio address as the governor of New York, United States; he would come to use this medium to communicate with his supporters for the remainder of his career. 
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04 Apr 1929 WW2 German engineer Karl Benz, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, died at home in Ladenburg, Germany. 
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05 Apr 1929 WW2 Seria Well Number One (S-1) struck oil in Brunei. 
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08 Apr 1929 WW2 In Russia a new law banned religions from engaging in anything more than divine services. All study groups, bible circles, religious youth and women's movements, church reading rooms and libraries and all forms of religious education were banned. Tax levels were increased on all clergy and priests who tried to buy food in state shops were forced to pay a special deposit. Rules were altered on clerical residence rights forcing many priests to rely on the charity of their congregation for accommodation. 
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12 Apr 1929 WW2 Ship number 451 of Mitsubishi Shipbuilding's Nagasaki Yard in Japan was launched and named Tatsuta Maru. 
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17 Apr 1929 WW2 Königsberg was commissioned into service. 
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24 Apr 1929 WW2 Foch was launched at Brest, France. 
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25 Apr 1929 WW2 Haguro was commissioned into service. 
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25 Apr 1929 RELIGIOUS The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America was organized in Detroit, partly in response to the insurgence of Communism in Eastern Europe. Previously, its parishes were under jurisdiction of the Patriarchate in Bucharest, Hungary.
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27 Apr 1929 WW2 Roderick Carr became a flight instructor with the No. 4 Flight Training School in Britain. 
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02 May 1929 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. 
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04 May 1929 WW2 USS Arizona entered Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States for modernization. 
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08 May 1929 WW2 The Bristol Bulldog biplane fighter entered service with No. 3 Squadron at RAF Upavon in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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15 May 1929 WW2 The Republic of China established the Order of the Precious Tripod. 
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16 May 1929 RELIGIOUS The Shaffer Lectureship was established at the Yale Divinity School, in memory of Kent Shaffer, Ph.B., 1907. The lectures are concerned with some phase of the life, character and teachings of Jesus. Lecturers have included C.H. Dodd (1935); Ralph W. Sockman (1936); Martin Dibelius (1937); and James Moffatt (1940).
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28 May 1929 WW2 Nachi boarded Emperor Showa on his tour of the Kansai region, Japan. 
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29 May 1929 WW2 Emperor Showa disembarked Nachi. 
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01 Jun 1929 WW2 Captain Ralph A. Koch was named the commanding officer of USS Marblehead, replacing Captain Harry Kimball Cage. 
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07 Jun 1929 WW2 Oswald Mosley was made the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. 
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08 Jun 1929 WW2 Miss Margaret Grace Bondfield (born 1873) became the first woman to hold a (minor) British government post as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour in the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald. 
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17 Jun 1929 WW2 Louise Cromwell Brooks MacArthur received decree of divorce from Douglas MacArthur at Reno, Nevada, United States, on the grounds of "failure to provide". 
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01 Jul 1929 WW2 Quintin Brand was promoted to the rank of wing commander. 
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01 Jul 1929 WW2 Edumnd Herring was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
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01 Jul 1929 WW2 Vice Admiral Kanjiro Hara was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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03 Jul 1929 WW2 During "Parasite" experiments Lieutenant A. W. Gordon successfully hooked his Vought VO-2 observation biplane onto the airship USS Los Angeles. 
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11 Jul 1929 WW2 A secret decree of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Union established the Gulag system. 
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12 Jul 1929 WW2 The 12-engined Do X flying boat took its maiden flight. 
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15 Jul 1929 WW2 USS Arizona received a reduced commission status while she was undergoing modernization. 
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26 Jul 1929 WW2 Joseph Rochefort received orders to transfer to Japan to study the Japanese language. 
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27 Jul 1929 WW2 The "Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva July 27, 1929", commonly known as the Geneva Convention, was signed in Geneva, Switzerland. 
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30 Jul 1929 WW2 Eizo Ishizuka was named the governor-general of Taiwan. 
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31 Jul 1929 WW2 Myoko was commissioned into service. 
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01 Aug 1929 WW2 Iwane Matsui was named the commanding officer of the 11th Division. 
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01 Aug 1929 WW2 General Jiro Minami was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Hanzo Kanaya. Minami named Lieutenant General Kotaro Nakamura as his chief of staff. 
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05 Aug 1929 WW2 In Russia a subsidiary law ensured that religious clerics did not become a financial burden on the State by removing all rights to welfare, pensions or health insurance. 
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08 Aug 1929 WW2 The German airship Graf Zeppelin began a round-the-world flight. 
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08 Aug 1929 WW2 Heinrich Himmler's daughter Gudrun was born. 
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09 Aug 1929 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed Senior Engineering Officer, RAF Depot, Middle East. 
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17 Aug 1929 WW2 Rudolf Höss married Hedwig Hensel. 
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17 Aug 1929 WW2 Masahiro Ota succeeded Kenjiro Kinoshita as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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19 Aug 1929 WW2 Seria Well Number Two (S-2) was drilled in Brunei. 
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20 Aug 1929 WW2 Ashigara was commissioned into service. 
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20 Aug 1929 WW2 Captain Ibo Takahashi was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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31 Aug 1929 WW2 The Young Plan, which set the total WW1 reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58 1/2 years, was finalized. 
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05 Sep 1929 WW2 Masafumi Arima stepped down as the Vice Chief Gunnery Office of battleship Haruna and was assigned to the gunnery department of Sasebo Naval District in Japan. 
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06 Sep 1929 WW2 Joseph Rochefort, his wife, and his son boarded the passenger ship President Adams at San Francisco, California, United States, bound for Kobe, Japan. 
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15 Sep 1929 WW2 Asama Maru was commissioned into service. 
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17 Sep 1929 WW2 Lorraine began a period of refitting. 
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24 Sep 1929 WW2 Flying a Consolidated NY-2 Husky biplane, equipped with a Sperry artificial horizon, directional gyro, and a Kollsman altimeter, Lieutenant James H. Doolittle USAAC, completed the first successful blind take-off circuit and landing at Mitchell field, Long Island, New York, United States. 
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24 Sep 1929 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey flew with James Doolittle as his safety pilot during the first fully blind instrument flight. 
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27 Sep 1929 WW2 Joseph Rochefort arrived at Kobe, Japan via passenger ship President Adams. 
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28 Sep 1929 WW2 Joseph Rochefort reported in to the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. 
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01 Oct 1929 WW2 Erwin Rommel became an instructor at the Infantry School in Dresden, Germany. 
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01 Oct 1929 WW2 Werner von Blomberg was promoted to the rank of Generalleutnant. 
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03 Oct 1929 WW2 German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann passed away from a stroke in Berlin, Germany. The strongest figure in the Weimar government, Stresemann had negotiated the reduction in reparations and the treaty of Locarno, as well as getting Germany a seat in the League of Nations. In 1926 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As Foreign Minister he believed that Germany was destined eventually to dominate Europe, but meanwhile should remain conciliatory with the British, French and Americans. His death left the Weimar government considerably weakened. 
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09 Oct 1929 WW2 Roger Backhouse was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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21 Oct 1929 WW2 The Do X aircraft took its 70th test flight, breaking a record with 169 people on board. 
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28 Oct 1929 WW2 Black Monday: In the United States, Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 13% on the stock market. 
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29 Oct 1929 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived in Hong Kong. 
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29 Oct 1929 WW2 Black Tuesday: In the United States, Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 12% on the stock market. 
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30 Oct 1929 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Katsuno was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yuzuki. 
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30 Oct 1929 WW2 Koichi Shiozawa was named the chief of staff of the Japanese 1st Fleet. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 Josias joined the Nazi Party. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Isoroku Yamamoto was relieved as the commanding officer of Akagi; the successor was unknown. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 The conversion of a Tosa-class battleship hull to a fleet carrier completed at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan. She was commissioned into Japanese Navy service as Kaga. In her original configuration, she sported three flight decks that form a series of ramps at the bow. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Yoshio Hachiya was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Yoshiyuki Niiyama, commanding officer of Nachi, took on a dual role as the commanding officer of cruiser Myoko. 
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06 Nov 1929 WW2 Karlsruhe was commissioned into service. 
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14 Nov 1929 WW2 The keel of French cruiser Dupleix was laid down by the Arsenal de Brest in France. 
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20 Nov 1929 WW2 Rear Admiral Seizaburo Mitsui was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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21 Nov 1929 WW2 Sun Du was named the chairman of Yunnan Province, China. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Isoroku Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became a staff officer with Japanese Navy Destroyer Squadron 2. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of captain and was given command of the light cruiser Naka. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was named the commanding officer of heavy cruiser Kako. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Sadae Chiya was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 An unknown officer assumed command of Nachi. 
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01 Dec 1929 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was named the commanding officer of the Training Fleet. 
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05 Dec 1929 WW2 The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was formed. 
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11 Dec 1929 WW2 Salt Lake City was commissioned into service. 
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27 Dec 1929 WW2 Stalin called for the liquidation of the Kulaks (peasant speculators) as a class. 
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