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The following events occurred in September 1929:

September 7, 1929: Sinking of the SS Kuru kills 136 people in Finland
September 30, 1929: The world's first rocket powered-plane, Germany's RAK-1, piloted by Fritz von Opel
September 5, 1929: Economist Roger Babson warns investors, "Sooner or later, a crash is coming.."
September 2, 1929: Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini of Jerusalem warns British not to create a Jewish state in Palestine

Sunday, September 1, 1929

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  • A bomb exploded at 4 a.m. at the Reichstag building in Berlin. Windows were shattered but there were no injuries.[1]
  • Chinese foreign minister Wang Zhengting said that China would not consent to the Soviet condition to replace the chairman of the Chinese Eastern Railway amid reports of resumed fighting along the border.[2]

Monday, September 2, 1929

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Tuesday, September 3, 1929

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Wednesday, September 4, 1929

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  • The explosion of a powder mill in a bomb factory, near Brescia in Italy, killed 17 people.[13]
  • Born: Thomas Eagleton, U.S. Senator for Missouri and 1972 Democratic Party nominee for Vice President who was forced off the ticket after disclosing prior treatment for clinical depression; in St. Louis (d. 2007)

Thursday, September 5, 1929

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  • French Prime Minister Aristide Briand called for a United States of Europe, telling the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva that a "federal tie must exist between peoples grouped geographically like the peoples of Europe." His plan included the formation of an international police force to uphold the Kellogg-Briand Pact as well as loan guarantees to aid any nation forced into war or threatened by war.[14][15]
  • American business theorist Roger Babson gave a business conference speech in Wellesley, Massachusetts, saying, "More people are borrowing and speculating today than ever in our history. Sooner or later, a crash is coming, and it may be terrific."[16]
  • Born: Bob Newhart (George Robert Newhart), American comedian, and TV and film actor known for his comic monologues; star of The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart; in Oak Park, Illinois(d. 2024)

Friday, September 6, 1929

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Saturday, September 7, 1929

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  • The sinking of the Finnish steamship SS Kuru in Lake Näsijärvi killed 136 passengers and crew.[18]
  • Jews were allowed to pray again at the Wailing Wall under the protection of seven Arab policemen as Palestine returned to a state of calm.[19]
  • British pilot Richard Waghorn won the 1929 Schneider Trophy race, setting a new world flying speed record of 328.6 miles per hour.[20]
  • The wreckage of the City of San Francisco passenger plane was spotted on the south slope of Mount Taylor by a transport plane.[21]

Sunday, September 8, 1929

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Monday, September 9, 1929

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  • Representatives of 28 nations attended a luncheon to hear Aristide Briand's proposal for a United States of Europe. Briand was named to draft a memorandum on the scheme for further study. "We have laid the cornerstone of a European confederation", Briand told the media after the meeting. "It was a good cornerstone."[23]

Tuesday, September 10, 1929

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Wednesday, September 11, 1929

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  • Fourteen members of the crew of the Belgian cargo ship Estella died after the freighter collided with a German lumber ship in the Scheldt River and sank.[25][26]
  • The Soviet Army crossed the border with China from Pogranichny and advanced 40 miles into the Heilongjiang Province.[27]

Thursday, September 12, 1929

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Friday, September 13, 1929

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Saturday, September 14, 1929

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Minnie and Sam Marx with their five sons in 1915

Sunday, September 15, 1929

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  • Seven men were charged in the fatal shooting of Ella Mae Wiggins.[34] Five would be put on trial, but acquitted of all charges the following March.
  • Born: Murray Gell-Mann, U.S. physicist and 1969 Nobel laureate, in Manhattan, New York (d. 2019)

Monday, September 16, 1929

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  • The United States and Britain formally invited Japan, France and Italy to a naval disarmament conference scheduled to start in the second week of January 1930.[35]
  • 23 were killed and 21 injured in an explosion at the Petite Rosselle coal mine near Strasbourg in France.[36][37]
  • Born: Maxine Kline, American baseball player for the AAGPBL, 1954 leader (for the Fort Wayne Daisies) in games won; in North Adams, Michigan (d. 2022)

Tuesday, September 17, 1929

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Wednesday, September 18, 1929

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  • U.S. President Herbert Hoover made a radio address from the White House on international peace and arms reduction. Hoover stated that "preparedness must not exceed the barest necessity for defense or it becomes a threat of aggression against others and thus a cause of fear and animosity of the world." Hoover said that proposals to limit naval armaments "would preserve our national defenses and yet would relieve the backs of those who toil from gigantic expenditures and the world from the hate and fear which flows from the rivalry in building warships."[41][42]
  • The Chicago Cubs clinched the National League pennant when the Pittsburgh Pirates were eliminated by losing 5–4 to the Boston Braves.[43]
  • The Preston Sturges romantic comedy play Strictly Dishonorable opened at the Avon Theatre on Broadway.[44]

Thursday, September 19, 1929

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Voldemaras

Friday, September 20, 1929

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Saturday, September 21, 1929

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  • Britain withdrew a controversial disarmament resolution from the League of Nations proposing limitations on trained army reserves.[51][52]
  • Born: Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian soccer football striker and national team member; in Budapest (died of fall from building, 1979)

Sunday, September 22, 1929

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  • Benito Mussolini announced the creation of a new government department for physical education in Fascist Italy.[53]
  • Joseph Goebbels was among those arrested by Berlin authorities after shots were fired from a car riding in a procession of Nazis when onlookers hissed and jeered the demonstration. Empty cartridges were found in the car Goebbels was riding in.[54]
  • Born: Hédi Váradi, Hungarian actress; in Újpest (d. 1987)
  • Died: Elton "Ice Box" Chamberlain, 61, American major league baseball player

Monday, September 23, 1929

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Tuesday, September 24, 1929

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Wednesday, September 25, 1929

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Huggins
  • Died: Miller Huggins, 50, American baseball manager who guided the New York Yankees to six American League pennants and three World Series championships in between 1921 and 1928, died from pyaemia from a staph infection, one week after taking a leave of absence from his team to enter the hospital; his Yankees won, 11 to 10 over the Red Sox that day under assistant manager Art Fletcher. He would be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame 35 years later.

Thursday, September 26, 1929

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Friday, September 27, 1929

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Saturday, September 28, 1929

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Sunday, September 29, 1929

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Bellonte and Costes

Monday, September 30, 1929

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