I was thinking about the current economic crisis, and started reading about the stock market crash of 1929, just to see if there were any similarities. I got sidetracked (as usual) and started reading a list of events that happened in that same year. There were a lot more events than I have listed here, but these caught my eye.
Also, I found out the Mercedes was not Karl's wife or daughter.
1. The nation's first seeing eye dog training school opens.
2. Al Capone orders the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.
3. Herbert Hoover sworn in as President.
4. Charles Lindbergh marries Anne Morrow.
5. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. marries Joan Crawford.
6. Construction contract for the Empire State Building awarded.
7. Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, proves that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe.
8. Auto pioneer David Buick dies.
9. Auto pioneer (inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile) Karl Benz dies.
10. First Academy Awards held. Wings wins.
11. Fighting breaks out between Jews and Muslims at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall followed by mass demonstrations in Syria, Iraq, Arabia and Transjordan calling for a Holy War.
12. Wyatt Earp dies in his sleep at age 80. Tom Mix weeps at funeral.
