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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed
Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 17, 1929 |
Tour
of Flanders |
Jef
Dervaes (Bel) |
216 km |
| March 19, 1929 |
Milan-San
Remo |
Alfredo
Binda (Ita) |
286.5 km |
| March 31, 1929 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Charles
Meunier (Bel) |
260 km |
| May 9, 1929 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Alfons
Schepers (Bel) |
231 km |
May 19- June 9, 1929 |
Giro
d'Italia |
Alfredo
Binda (Ita) |
14 Stages
2,920 km |
| June 30 - July 28, 1929 |
Tour
de France |
Maurice
Dewaele (Bel) |
22 Stages,
5,257 km |
| August 16, 1929 |
World
Championships |
George
Ronsse (Bel) |
Zurich,
Switzerland 200 km |
| October 26, 1929 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Piero
Fossati (Ita) |
Milan-Milan,
238 km |
- NY
Stock Exchange- October 4, 1929, the NYSE crashed. Black Thursday
was the day when the stock market crashed, setting off the
Great Depression and a worldwide economic crisis.
- Television- Milton Berle appeared in an experimental broadcast for TV.
- England- Scotland Yard seized 12 nude paintings of D.H. Lawrence from
the Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency.
- Grand
Banks Earthquake- November 1929, an earthquake off the south
coast of Newfoundland, registered 7.2 on the ‘Richter
Scale’. The submarine earthquake centered on Grand
Banks triggered a tsunami that destroys many south coast
communities in the Burin Peninsula, killing 28.
- Music- Guy Lombardo played Auld Lang Syne at mid-night December
31 for the first time.
Notable
Deaths-
Wyatt Earp, 1848-1929, a western legend and fearless
lawman of Tombstone, Arizona, he was famous for the 1881
Gunfight at O.K. Corral.
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