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1929
• At the British general election on 30 May – the first held under universal sufferage – Labour wins, but not with an outright majority. On 5 June, Ramsay MacDonald returns as prime minister. • On Black Thursday, 24 October, US investors beginning selling their shares in a panic, causing the Wall Street crash. This results in a worldwide economic downturn – the Great Depression – leading to bankruptcies and mass unemployment. • More than 200 Zionist settlers, hoping to form a Jewish state, are massacred by Palestinians in Hebron. Over the next decade, rising numbers of Jewish refugees from persecution in Europe arrive in Palestine. • Leon Trotsky is exiled from the Soviet Union by Stalin. • The German Graf Zeppelin airship flies around the world. • Books about World War I include Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That. • Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's musical Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel of life on the Mississippi, is first performed, showing how America's racial tensions are reflected in drama. • A sculpture by Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, symbolises the clean lines of modern art. |
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