August 1929

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August 8 to 29, 1929: German airship Graf Zeppelin makes the first aerial flight around the world

The following events occurred in August 1929:

Thursday, August 1, 1929

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Friday, August 2, 1929

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Waller

Saturday, August 3, 1929

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Sunday, August 4, 1929

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Monday, August 5, 1929

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Tuesday, August 6, 1929

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  • An international conference opened in The Hague to finalize the Young Plan.[15]
  • Great Britain signed a treaty with Egypt ending British occupation and replacing it with a military alliance allowing Britain to station troops along the Suez Canal.[8]
  • In the Lupeni Strike, troops were called in after the miners seized a local power plant and fighting broke out. The number of miners reported killed ranged from 15 to 58.[16][17]
  • The musical drama film Say It with Songs, starring Al Jolson, was released.

Wednesday, August 7, 1929

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Thursday, August 8, 1929

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Friday, August 9, 1929

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  • Two people were killed in fighting between German Communists and Berlin police in eastern Berlin after more than 1,000 communists, waving red flags and singing "The Internationale", refused a police order to disperse.[20]

Saturday, August 10, 1929

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Sunday, August 11, 1929

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Babe Ruth

Monday, August 12, 1929

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  • Hungarian police made 13 more arrests in the Angel Makers of Nagyrév case as sensational reports of widespread husband poisoning centered around the village of Nagyrév, Hungary drew worldwide attention.[24]
  • The Italian government began to redistribute 3,500 acres of unused land belonging to the Doria family that had been seized by the state as part of national policy that land must be cultivated in order to increase the country's agricultural output. Over the next two days, a lottery system was used to grant 230 parcels of land to peasant farmers.[25]
  • Britain refused a Chinese demand to give up its extraterritoriality rights to China.[26]
  • RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, lost a lawsuit charging the company with patent infringement and was ordered to pay over $20 million in back royalties to three plaintiffs.[27]

Tuesday, August 13, 1929

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Wednesday, August 14, 1929

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Thursday, August 15, 1929

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  • The British cotton workers' strike ended when both sides agreed to resume work on Monday at pre-strike wages until a court of arbitration could deliver a judgement on the application of the employers to reduce wages.[33]
  • During a speech in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Winston Churchill said that no worthwhile naval agreement could be reached between Britain and the United States until the Americans recognized certain fundamental differences in the circumstances of the two nations. "To apply a rigid plan of numerical equality to conditions that are markedly unequal will be extremely difficult in reaching the true goal that Britain and the United States shall be equal powers on the sea", Churchill stated.[34]
  • The first commercial airport to service Philadelphia PA opened in Pennsauken NJ. Central Airport was officially dedicated on September 2, 1929 and served Philadelphia until the early 1940's

Friday, August 16, 1929

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Saturday, August 17, 1929

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Sunday, August 18, 1929

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Monday, August 19, 1929

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The ZMC-2 over Washington
  • The U.S. airship ZMC-2, the only dirigible with a skin of metal, was first flown.
  • At least 18 Romanian soldiers were killed in an ammunition explosion at a fort in Bucharest.[38]
  • The central portion of the French ocean liner SS Paris was heavily damaged by a mysterious fire while docked at Le Havre.[39]
  • Died:

Tuesday, August 20, 1929

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Wednesday, August 21, 1929

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Thursday, August 22, 1929

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Friday, August 23, 1929

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Saturday, August 24, 1929

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Sunday, August 25, 1929

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  • The New York Giants used the first public address system in baseball history during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. In addition to player at-bats and substitutions being announced to the crowd without the use of a megaphone, umpire Cy Rigler had a microphone inside his mask to amplify his calls at the plate. Though the experiment was a success, the use of electronic public address systems at games did not become widespread until the 1940s.[47]

Monday, August 26, 1929

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Tuesday, August 27, 1929

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  • The trial of 250 members of the Sicilian Mafia for minor offenses ended in Italy. 43 were given prison terms of up to three years, 168 were acquitted and a new trial was ordered for the remaining 39.[51]
  • Born: Ralph T. Coe, American art collector and scholar (d. 2010)
  • Died:

Wednesday, August 28, 1929

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Thursday, August 29, 1929

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  • Sixty-nine people on the passenger steamship SS San Juan drowned when the vessel sank off the coast of San Francisco after a collision with an oil tanker. The ship went beneath the waves in only five minutes.[53][54]
  • The Safed riots killed 18 Jewish residents of Safed and wounded about 40 as 200 houses were burned and looted.[55]
  • At 8:13 a.m. the Graf Zeppelin completed its round-the-world trip back where it started in Lakehurst, New Jersey, a little over 21 days since it began. The airship only made three stops the entire journey and was in the air for less than 12 days.[10][56]

Friday, August 30, 1929

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Saturday, August 31, 1929

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