Chemical Engineering - 1929

• Bryd and Bennett fly over  the South Pole. (1929)
• New York stock market crashes, with U.S. securities losing $26 billion. The first phase of the Great Depression begins. (1929)
• Seven men of Chicago mobster George "Bugs" Moran are gunned down in a warehouse on February 14.   The St. Valentines Day Massacre was planned by rival mobster Al Capone.  (1929)
• First Academy Awards is held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. (1929)
• Edwin Hubble proposes his theory of an expanding universe. (1929)
• Trotsky is expelled from the USSR.
• Lateran Treaty establishes independent Vatican City.

College of Engineering, 1929. (1929 GEMS)

Associated Engineers, 1929. (1929 GEMS)