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- Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1900]] to [[1929]]'''.
110: *[[1929]] - [[Herbert Hoover]] becomes President
111: *[[1929]] - [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]]
112: *[[1929]] - [[Immigration Act]]
113: *[[1929]] - [[Great Depression]] begins
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
78: ...Institutional Revolutionary Party]] or PRI), in [[1929]] ended the struggles, uniting all generals and c...
199: ...y used in business. As a result, English language skills are much in demand and can lead to an increas... - Luwian language (1607 bytes)
8: ...an. In ''Studies in memory of [[Warren Cowgill]] (1929–1985). Papers from the Fourth East Coast In... - Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
2: ...pg|250px|A basket of grapefruit]] | caption = A basket of grapefruit}}
18: ...de the white grapefruit and the red, of which the 1929 US Ruby Red (of the Redblush variety) has a [[pat... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
88: ...93%, a larger crash than the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Most schools are also closed by this date. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: ...d of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
53: *[[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1...
59: *[[1929]] - [[Doris Roberts]], actress
151: [[sk:4. november]]
154: [[fi:4. marraskuuta]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
76: ===== Adamsk - Adamso =====
77: *[[George Adamski|Adamski, George]], (1891-1965), US UFO "traveler"
78: *[[Amandus Adamson|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor
127: ...[[Lal Krishna Advani|Advani, Lal Krishna]], (born 1929), Indian politician - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
14: ... spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]] - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ... five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer the q...
20: ... highest court at that time. On [[October 18]], [[1929]], the committee ruled that Canadian women were i... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
5: ...ading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this book....
11: .... This was a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Olcott's very public conversion to Buddhism ...
15: Eventually, in [[1929]], Krishnamurti ended up disbanding the Order of...
24: * Autobiographical Sketches (1885) - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[June 11]], [[1847]] – [[August 5]], [[1929]]) was a British [[suffragist]] (as opposed to a ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
9: ...he won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after...
31: * [[1929 in film|1929]]: Pickford becomes the first major actress to st... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
19: ...k classes with the political theorist Professor Losky, and it was at this time that she first became a...
22: ...]], who caught her eye. The two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[naturalized citiz...
33: ...ight. After the HUAC hearings, when Ayn Rand was asked about her feelings on the effectiveness of thei...
105: ...rmer, The Skeptic Magazine vol 2, #2. [http://www.skeptic.com/02.2.shermer-unlikely-cult.html]
113: ...er?pagename=about_ayn_rand_faq_index2 Frequently Asked Questions on Ayn Rand] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
29: ...e operating room for surgery on her stomach, she asked Toklas, "What is the answer?" When Toklas did n...
58: ...' to Gertrude Stein's in "Helen Furr and Georgine Skeene" (1922), specifically: "Everday they were gay...
63: ...she was a genius. She was disdainful of mundane tasks and Alice Toklas managed everyday affairs.
66: ... ''The Mother of Us All'', and [[James Tenney]]'s skillful if short setting of ''Rose is a rose is a r...
74: *''[[Four Saints in Three Acts]]'' (libretto, 1929: music by [[Virgil Thomson]], 1934) - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...icence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]]. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
49: *''[[A Room of One's Own]]'' ([[1929]]) - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
7: ... 19 years until the second woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in T...
9: After her flight she studied at the [[Zhukovski Air Force Academy]], and graduated as cosmonaut ...
11: ...e married fellow cosmonaut [[Andrian Nikolayev]] (1929–2004) and gave birth to their daughter Elen... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...eceived her Ph.D. from [[Columbia University]] in 1929. She set out in 1925 to do her field work in [[P... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
2: ...well''' [[March 14]], [[1851]] - [[January 2]], [[1929]], [[United States|US]] [[Army]] nurse nicknamed ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...d occasionally reverted to singing in clubs. In [[1929]], she appeared in a [[Broadway]] flop called ''P...
11: ...n [[1933]] when [[John P. Hammond|John Hammond]] asked her to record four sides for the Okeh label. Th...
27: ...off stage, Bessie was standing in the wings. She asked me if I was in school, and when I nodded, she s... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
9: ...8212; once for over a year — and in January 1929, she told him they were through. Although he was ...
15: ...down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stores, and stole...
27: ...ates regularly. Though Clyde's astounding driving skill and ability to evade capture were later grudgi...
49: ...to get them out of the area — a difficult task with the attention drawn by the accident. When fi... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
9: ...an Empire|Ottoman]] province of [[Kosovo]] (now [[Skopje]] in the [[Republic of Macedonia]]), where he...
11: ...he [[Vatican]] granted Teresa permission to leave Skopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Irel...
15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] ...
35: .... When Mother Teresa received the prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" Her a...
37: ...elis and Palestinians, who were in the midst of a skirmish, to cease fire long enough to rescue 37 men... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
7: ...lm]] about a [[Nazi]] party meeting. Hitler then asked her to film the Nazi Party rally in [[Nuremberg...
9: ...qualified to represent Germany in [[cross-country skiing]] in the [[1936 Summer Olympics|Olympics]] bu...
33: ...m Piz Pal?(''[[The White Hell of Pitz Palu]]'', [[1929]]) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ...[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] performance was in [[1929]], in ''Broken Dishes'' and later in ''Solid Sout...
27: ...Jackie DeShannon]], and singer [[Kim Carnes]] to ask them how they knew so much about her. One of the ...
33: *Nominated ''[[Mr. Skeffington]]'' ([[1944]]) - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
19: ... transition to [[Sound film|talkies]]. Her low, husky voice with [[Swedish language|Swedish]] accent w...
44: ...er ashes are buried at the [[Skogskyrkog岤en|Skogskyrkog岤en Cemetery]] in [[Stockholm]].
67: * [[Wild Orchids]] (1929)
68: * [[A Man's Man]] (1929) (cameo)
69: * [[The Single Standard]] (1929) - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
1: [[Image:AmazinGrace.jpg|thumb|300px|Grace Kelly (1929–1982).]]
3: '''Grace Patricia Kelly''' ([[November 12]], [[1929]] – [[September 14]], [[1982]]), later know... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: ...as a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[figure skating|figure skater]] and actress.
4: ...ed over to the side of the rink several times to ask her coach for directions.
6: ...She won her first of ten consecutive World Figure Skating Championships in [[1927]] at the age of fift...
8: ... first to adopt the short skirt costume in figure skating, and the first to make use of dance [[choreo...
14: ... Considered by most as the greatest female figure skater in history, she and her husband are buried on... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
31: ...t knowledge of details of its construction remain sketchy, and almost nothing is known of the actual m...
190: * [[Ernest M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner]] (USA)
205: ...lt by the [[Midmer-Losh Organ Company]] between [[1929]] and [[1932]]. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
184: || [[1923]] || [[1929]] || [[Republican Party (United States)|Republica...
188: || [[1929]] || [[1933]] || [[Republican Party (United Stat... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
40: ...[Peter I Island]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the only Antarctic claim area that is not a se...
71: * [[Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station]] ({{coor dm|62|10|S|05...
81: * [[Novolazarevskaya Station]], [[Dronning Maud Land]] ({{coor dms|...
106: ... check the year here http://www.nacos.com/komatsu/skwork.htm --> - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ... [[Caribbean Sea]]. Two of the fifty states, [[Alaska]], an [[exclave]], and [[Hawaii]], an [[archipel...
60: ...the [[Missouri Compromise]] and the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]]. The dispute reached a crisis point in [[1...
66: ...ce for the nation was the [[Great Depression]] ([[1929]]–[[1939]]). The U.S. has also has taken pa...
88: ...ected legislature with two houses (one, in [[Nebraska]]), whose members represent the different parts ...
110: ...ate rain forests]] in the Pacific Northwest. [[Alaska]]'s [[tundra]] and the [[volcano|volcanic]], [[t... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
88: ...f Justice's permission, in which case a special task force of justice experts and senior judges is for...
103: ...Armed Forces (Turkish: Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri TSK) consists of the Army, Navy (includes Naval Air a...
246: Government regulations passed in 1929 required all insurance companies to reinsure 30% ...
263: ...exible, with a wide spectrum of skills from the unskilled to highly educated. Turkey is obliged to app...
361: *[http://www.tsk.mil.tr/eng/index.htm Turkish Armed Forces] - Argentina (30219 bytes)
88: ...own as ''capital federal''), marked with an asterisk:
128: ...any slums (''villas miseria'') sprouted in the outskirts of the largest cities, inhabited by empoveris...
156: ...wever, ever since the Great Depression began in [[1929]], Argentina's economy had been on a Keynesian ro...
158: ...ough both domestic and foreign investors remained skeptical of the government's ability to pay debts a... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
66: ...[1919]] (assassination), [[1929]] (abdication), [[1929]] (execution), [[1933]] (assassination), [[1973]]...
88: ...on [[September 1]], [[2003]], the commission has asked for a delay in order to undertake further consu... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
55: ...раина (Okraina, "Outskirts") in Russian) and also "country" (compare Kra...
74: ...ities of [[Halych]] and [[Volhynia|Volodymyr-Volynskyi]], which were merged into the state of [[Halych...
80: ...esult that livestock resources remained below the 1929 level for years afterward. The state in turn forc...
118: * [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast |Dnipropetrovsk]]
119: * [[Donetsk Oblast |Donetsk]] - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
65: ...Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]], later renamed, in [[1929]], the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]. Following the r...
82: * Gorenjska ([[Upper Carniola]]) (denoted on the map by U.C....
83: * Štajerska ([[Styria, Slovenia|Styria]]) (S)
86: * Notranjska ([[Inner Carniola]]) (I.C.)
87: * Dolenjska ([[Lower Carniola]]) (L.C.) - Flag of Colorado (1126 bytes)
2: ... golden disk. The blue is meant to represent the skies, the gold the sun, the white the snowcapped mo...
4: ...y within the center stripe. On [[February 28]], [[1929]], the General Assembly added to the description ... - Flag of West Virginia (372 bytes)
2: ...was adopted by [[West Virginia]] on [[7 March]] [[1929]]. - Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
10: ...dam was raised in two phases, 1907–1912 and 1929–1933. - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
9: ...ung George was known for mischievous behavior. He skipped school, ran the streets, and committed petty...
18: Though Ruth was a skillful pitcher, the Red Sox's starting rotation wa...
23: ...importantly, however, Ruth began to show his true skill as a hitter, compiling a .325 batting average ...
100: On [[January]] [[11]], [[1929]], Ruth's former wife Helen died in a house [[fir...
104: ...ook their [[wedding]] vows on [[April]] [[17]], [[1929]]. Upon [[marriage]], Claire took complete contr... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
114: * [[Musket]] in [[History of Europe|Europe]]
300: * [[1882]]: [[Electric fan]]: [[Schuyler Skatts Wheeler]]
413: * [[1922]]: [[Water skiing]]: [[Ralph Samuelson]]
430: * [[1929]]: [[Electroencephalogram|Electroencephelograph]]...
435: * [[1931]]: the [[Radio telescope]]: [[Karl Jansky]] [[Grote Reber]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
28: *[[Zal Yanovsky|Yanovsky, Zal]] (1945-2002), of [[Lovin' Spoonful]]
31: ...980), [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
40: *[[Lev Yashin|Yashin, Lev]], ([[1929]]-[[1990]]), Russian football goalkeeper
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall of Fam...
56: *[[Grigory Yavlinsky|Yavlinsky, Grigory]] (born 1952), Russian economist and po... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
17: ...300,000 vehicles registered in [[1918]], but by [[1929]] there were 1.9 million. The automobile had wide...
34: ...ural areas. [[Mass transit]] systems, the first [[skyscraper]]s, and the growing importance of industr...
60: ...e later 1920s, and especially in the 1930s, the basketball team became known as the best in the world....
70: ...with new moves. Professionals began to hone their skills in Tap dance and other dances of the era thro...
145: ...[[1929]] would last for ever. On [[29 October]] [[1929]], also known as the [[Black Tuesday]], stock pri... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
43: In 1854 the proposed [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]] abrogated the [[Missouri Compromise]] by p...
67: ...he [[Stock market crash|Stock Market crash]] in [[1929]] and the ensuing economic [[Great Depression|dep... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
37: ...ajor countries had adopted hourly time zones by [[1929]]. Even today, they have not been fully realized,...
43: ..., which extended the letters by adding an [[asterisk]] (*) or [[dagger (typography)|dagger]] (†...
49: Regions marked with asterisks (* or **) observe [[Daylight Saving Time]]: add ...
76: ** [[Alaska]]
87: ...ates]] (AKST—[[Alaska Standard Time Zone|Alaska Standard Time]]) - History of science (41710 bytes)
27: ...ons]] to develop and more time to be devoted to tasks other than survival, such as the search for know...
78: ...eories. The observation by [[Edwin Hubble]], in [[1929]] that the speed at which galaxies recede positiv...
89: ...[[alchemy]] by [[Robert Boyle]] in his work ''The Skeptical Chymist'' ([[1661]]), but is often more st...
140: ...Jones (philologist)|Sir William Jones]] that [[Sanskrit]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Greek langu...
142: ...ifferences between various languages. [[Noam Chomsky]] further diversified linguistics in the [[1950s... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
35: *[[Ivan Aivazovsky]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
40: *[[Pierre Alechinsky]] ([[1927]]-)
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
142: *[[Elsa Beskow]] ([[1874]]-[[1953]]) - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
18: ...which has to be pressed against a metal plate. [[Oskar Sala]] was one of the first players and continu... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
15: ...namic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo also sketched designs for a helicopter, but this design w...
17: ...ome some one might know how better to utilize our sketch and cause some addition to be made so as to a...
113: ...s across the country and showing off their flying skills, as well as taking paying passengers for ride...
115: ...] and then back to [[Pulham]], [[England]]. By [[1929]], airship technology had advanced to the point t...
246: ...her jet airliner designs had already taken to the skies, including the [[Boeing 707]], which establish... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
21: ...|right|200px|[[Francis Picabia]], ''Ridens'', (c. 1929), gouache and watercolor on cardboard, 104 x 74 c...
39: ...ive and non-objective. ([[Wassily Kandinsky|Kandinsky]] produced the first non-objective abstract pain... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
28: *[[Emile Berliner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[...
158: ... — African-American Inventor of the [[gas mask]], and [[traffic signal]].
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