Historical Events In 1929

Mar 28 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador

Mar 31 Aviators Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Litchfield and McWilliam leave Sydney for England in Southern Cross; they were forced down in northwest Australia and lost until April 12).

Mar 22 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor

Mar 14 NAS Pensacola aircraft make 113 flights for flood rescue and relief

Mar 20 British Columbia Telephone Company sets up subsidiary, North-West Telephone Company, the world's first radiotelephone company

Mar 06 Turkey &Bulgaria sign friendship treaty

Mar 04 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes first native American Vice President

Mar 04 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President

Mar 23 First telephone installed in White House

Mar 17 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid

Mar 17 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

Mar 22 U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico off coast of Louisiana

Mar 07 In the Fox Islands, Alaska a 7.8 earthquake occurred, one of the largest earthquakes in the United States

Mar 02 Congress creates Court of Customs &Patent Appeals

Mar 08 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia

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