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December 21, 1929: Personality cult of Joseph Stalin booms on his 50th birthday (shown, a 1938 example)
December 24, 1929: Electrical fire destroys the West Wing of the White House, rebuilding planned

The following events occurred in December 1929:

Sunday, December 1, 1929

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Monday, December 2, 1929

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Tuesday, December 3, 1929

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  • President Hoover delivered his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.[3] The message asserted that "during the past year the Nation has continued to grow in strength" and that the country's problems were "problems of growth and of progress." Of the economic situation, Hoover stated that he had "instituted systematic, voluntary methods of cooperation with the business institutions and with State and municipal authorities to make certain that fundamental businesses of the country shall continue as usual, that wages and therefore consuming power shall not be reduced, and that a special effort shall be made to expand construction work in order to assist in equalizing other deficits in employment ... I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence."[4]

Wednesday, December 4, 1929

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  • Former Prime Minister David Lloyd George, at 66 the eldest member of the British House of Commons, told his colleagues that a second world war was inevitable without disarmament. "The League of Nations has been going on for ten years", he said. "There have been meetings and eloquent speeches delivered in favour of peace, disarmament and arbitration, but the League of Nations is in danger of failure from being run by flapdoodlers."[5]
  • The House of Lords voted, 43 to 21, against resuming diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.[6]

Thursday, December 5, 1929

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Friday, December 6, 1929

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Saturday, December 7, 1929

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  • The Aga Khan, Imam of the Nizari Isma'ilism sect of Islam and one of the world's wealthiest men, was married in Aix-les-Bains, France to a former candy store clerk and dressmaker in a simple ceremony with no guests.[11]

Sunday, December 8, 1929

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Monday, December 9, 1929

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Tuesday, December 10, 1929

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Wednesday, December 11, 1929

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  • A prison riot broke out at Auburn Prison in upstate New York, apparently after a gun had been smuggled into the cell block. Eight convicts and a prison superintendent keeper were killed.[18]
  • The Reichstag adopted a bill requiring shops to close on Christmas Eve at 5 p.m.[19]

Thursday, December 12, 1929

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Friday, December 13, 1929

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Saturday, December 14, 1929

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  • The Greek parliament elected Alexandros Zaimis as the new President of Greece.[10]
  • Fifty Communist Party of the U.S. members were arrested for staging an anti-administration protest in front of the White House without a permit, but they were released, almost immediately, in compliance with a request from President Hoover. White House Press Secretary George E. Akerson issued a statement saying that the President Hoover did "not believe that any such discourtesy in any way endangers the republic and that a night in jail is only doing them a favor of cheap martyrdom."[26]
  • Died: Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Jackson, 74. Jackson had been the First Sea Lord during World War One until being replaced after German warships were sighted in the English Channel in 1916.

Sunday, December 15, 1929

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Monday, December 16, 1929

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  • Pope Pius XI created six new Roman Catholic Cardinals, including the Vatican's Apostolic Nuncio to Germany, Eugenio Pacelli. In 1939, Pacelli would become the successor of Pius XI and take name Pope Pius XII.[27]
  • President Hoover signed a $160 million income tax reduction bill into law.[28]
R100 in 1938

Tuesday, December 17, 1929

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Wednesday, December 18, 1929

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  • The cruise ship RMS Fort Victoria was hit by the ocean liner SS Algonquin while sailing in a dense fog in the Ambrose Channel between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey. All on board the Fort Victoria were rescued before the ship sank, and the Algonquin survived the collision. [30]

Thursday, December 19, 1929

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  • The Austrian government set limitations on the freedom of the press by penalizing offenses against the military.[31]

Friday, December 20, 1929

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Saturday, December 21, 1929

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Another example of the Stalin cult, from 1938

Sunday, December 22, 1929

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  • The German referendum on whether to reject, further payment of Germany's reparations owed under the Treaty of Versailles, failed as expected. Although over 90% of the votes cast approved the measure, only about 13.5% of the eligible voting population had participated at all, and the referendum needed a turnout of at least 50% in order to be accepted.[37][38]
  • The musical film Devil-May-Care, starring Ramon Novarro, premiered at the Astor Theatre in New York City.[39]

Monday, December 23, 1929

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Tuesday, December 24, 1929

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  • The West Wing of the White House was seriously damaged in an evening fire. President Hoover left a Christmas Eve reception for children in order to direct efforts to retrieve important documents, but not all records could be saved. It was the most serious fire at the White House since it was burned by the British in 1814.[46] Congress would authorize the construction of a new West Wing to replace the burned building.
  • Three shots were fired at Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen as he left his home on the way to his office, but only his bodyguard was wounded. The assailant, a native Italian thought to be possibly an anarchist, was wounded when police guards returned fire. Efforts were made to save the shooter so he could be brought to trial but he died of his wounds.[47]
  • The Ohio Supreme Court declined to review the James H. Snook murder case, so his execution was scheduled for January 31.[48]

Wednesday, December 25, 1929

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Thursday, December 26, 1929

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Friday, December 27, 1929

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  • The British Foreign Office publicized a note from a Soviet ambassador promising that the USSR would refrain from communist agitation in British Dominions.[52]

Saturday, December 28, 1929

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  • Black Saturday occurred in Samoa when nine demonstrators were killed by New Zealand mandate government police.[53]
  • Ogden L. Mills, the acting United States Secretary of the Treasury, announced that an accord had been reached with Germany on a payment agreement separate from the Young Plan, covering military occupation costs and mixed claims awards.[54]
  • Born: Terry Sawchuk, Canadian NHL goaltender; in Winnipeg, Manitoba (died of injuries from a fight, 1970)

Sunday, December 29, 1929

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  • The executive committee of the Indian National Congress called for complete independence for India.[55]
  • In the Nazi newspaper Der Angriff, Joseph Goebbels published a controversial article titled "Hindenburg, are you still alive?", accompanied by a cartoon depicting President Paul von Hindenburg as a Teutonic god sitting on a throne supported by a stereotypical Jewish figure, watching pitilessly as generations of Germans marched into slavery. Hindenburg sued Goebbels for libel over the article.[56][57]
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Lang, made a radio broadcast from Canterbury Cathedral heard around the world calling on all British citizens to do their part for the country in 1930. "For more than a century we have taken for granted the industrial and commercial leadership of this country", he said. "Let the experience of the passing year suffice to show that this leadership is seriously threatened. Our great industries in coal, iron, steel and cotton textiles are anxious and ill at ease. Competitors have arisen to supplant us in markets in which we thought our positions assured. More than 1 million of our people are unemployed, and the future is clouded with uncertainty." The Archbishop said that the only possible remedy was not through a political solution, but by "each citizen realizing and fulfilling his own personal responsibility."[58]
  • Born:
  • Died: Wilhelm Maybach, 83, German automobile designer

Monday, December 30, 1929

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Tuesday, December 31, 1929

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  • Sixty-nine children in Scotland perished in a movie theatre fire in Paisley, Renfrewshire. None of the deaths were from the fire itself, which was quickly put out, but due to suffocation, choking from the noxious fumes of the burning celluloid or trampling in the rush to get out.[60]
  • The Mahatma Gandhi made a speech before the Indian National Congress in support of a resolution calling for Indian independence. The resolution was passed unanimously.[61]
  • United States Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont issued a statement predicting that 1930 would mark "a continuance of prosperity and progress." Secretary of the Treasuary Andrew W. Mellon likewise issued an optimistic statement: "During the winter months there may be some slackness or unemployment, but hardly more than is usual at this season each year. I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring and that during the coming year the country will make steady progress."[62]
  • Born: Mies Bouwman, Dutch television presenter, in Amsterdam (d. 2018)
  • Died: Charles Phelps Taft, 86, American lawyer, politician, and brother of William Howard Taft

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