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1929
 
  
Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven     
1929
 
    
George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele       
1929
 
    
Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems       
1929
 
   
Baseball star Ty Cobb retires with a career record of 2245 runs, that will remain unbeaten into the twenty-first century      
1929
 
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Plutarco Calles establishes the National Revolutionary Party that will hold power in Mexico, under different names, for the rest of the century       
1929
 
     
Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair        
1929
 
    
The Marx Brothers (now Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo) make their Hollywood debut with The Cocoanuts       
1929
 
    
An American Indian teenager, Ridgely Whiteman, finds the remains of a butchered mammoth near Clovis in New Mexico - first evidence of the Clovis culture       
Fossil skeleton of a mammoth
American Museum of Natural History

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1929
 
    
Panic selling on Thursday October 24 triggers a Wall Street stock market crash and a spate of suicides       
1929
 
    
The British Broadcasting Corporation uses Logie Baird's system for its first trial TV broadcasts