A bomb exploded at 4 a.m. at the
Reichstag building in Berlin. Windows were shattered but there were no injuries.[1]
Chinese foreign minister
Wang Zhengting said that China would not consent to the Soviet condition to replace the chairman of the
Chinese Eastern Railway amid reports of resumed fighting along the border.[2]
British Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald gave a speech to the
League of Nations Assembly in
Geneva outlining his government's policies. MacDonald said that Britain would "do everything possible to hasten the preparations for a disarmament conference." MacDonald suggested that if a twenty-point document on naval disarmament were to be outlined between Britain and the United States, "only about three of the twenty" points would be considered outstanding.[10]
The explosion of a powder mill in a bomb factory, near
Brescia in
Italy, killed 17 people.[13]
Born:Thomas Eagleton, U.S. Senator for Missouri and 1972 Democratic Party nominee for Vice President who was forced off the ticket after disclosing prior treatment for clinical depression; in
St. Louis (d. 2007)
Thursday, September 5, 1929
French Prime Minister
Aristide Briand called for a
United States of Europe, telling the
League of Nations Assembly in
Geneva that a "federal tie must exist between peoples grouped geographically like the peoples of Europe." His plan included the formation of an international police force to uphold the
Kellogg-Briand Pact as well as loan guarantees to aid any nation forced into war or threatened by war.[14][15]
American business theorist
Roger Babson gave a business conference speech in
Wellesley, Massachusetts, saying, "More people are borrowing and speculating today than ever in our history. Sooner or later, a crash is coming, and it may be terrific."[16]
Born:Bob Newhart (George Robert Newhart), American comedian, and TV and film actor known for his comic monologues; star of The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart; in
Oak Park, Illinois
Representatives of 28 nations attended a luncheon to hear
Aristide Briand's proposal for a
United States of Europe. Briand was named to draft a memorandum on the scheme for further study. "We have laid the cornerstone of a European confederation", Briand told the media after the meeting. "It was a good cornerstone."[23]
Tuesday, September 10, 1929
British pilot A. H. Oriebar set a new world flying speed record of 355.8 miles per hour, using the same
Supermarine S.6 flown by
Richard Waghorn in the
Schneider Trophy race that set the previous record a mere three days earlier.[24]
Fourteen members of the crew of the Belgian cargo ship Estella died after the freighter collided with a German lumber ship in the
Scheldt River and sank.[25][26]
The United States and Britain formally invited Japan, France and Italy to a naval disarmament conference scheduled to start in the second week of January 1930.[35]
23 were killed and 21 injured in an explosion at the Petite Rosselle coal mine near
Strasbourg in France.[36][37]
U.S. President
Herbert Hoover made a radio address from the
White House on international peace and arms reduction. Hoover stated that "preparedness must not exceed the barest necessity for defense or it becomes a threat of aggression against others and thus a cause of fear and animosity of the world." Hoover said that proposals to limit naval armaments "would preserve our national defenses and yet would relieve the backs of those who toil from gigantic expenditures and the world from the hate and fear which flows from the rivalry in building warships."[41][42]
The
National City Bank disclosed plans to merge with the
Corn Exchange Bank, which would make it the largest financial institution in the Western hemisphere.[45] This merger fell through after the Wall Street Crash.[46]
Britain withdrew a controversial disarmament resolution from the
League of Nations proposing limitations on trained army reserves.[51][52]
Born:Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian soccer football striker and national team member; in
Budapest (died of fall from building, 1979)
Sunday, September 22, 1929
Benito Mussolini announced the creation of a new government department for physical education in Fascist Italy.[53]
Joseph Goebbels was among those arrested by Berlin authorities after shots were fired from a car riding in a procession of
Nazis when onlookers hissed and jeered the demonstration. Empty cartridges were found in the car Goebbels was riding in.[54]
German nationalists opened a campaign seeking a
referendum to renounce the
Young Plan.
National People's Party leader
Alfred Hugenberg spoke in Berlin before 20,000 supporters, calling the Young Plan "a piece of flagrant dishonesty, unworthy of honorable people." Two sons of the former kaiser,
August Wilhelm and
Oskar, were present.[57]
Shops and residences in
Florida were boarded up in anticipation of a
hurricane.[58]
Died:Miller Huggins, 50, American baseball manager who guided the
New York Yankees to six American League pennants and three World Series championships in between 1921 and 1928, died from
pyaemia from a staph infection, one week after taking a leave of absence from his team to enter the hospital; his Yankees won, 11 to 10 over the Red Sox that day under assistant manager Art Fletcher. He would be elected to the
National Baseball Hall of Fame 35 years later.
CEPSA (Compañía Española de Petróleos, S.A.) a multinational oil and natural gas drilling and refinery company, was founded in Spain by Francisco Recasens.
In
India,
Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed, which says that no man below 18 or women below 16 could marry. Also known as Sharda Act, but later the age limit raised up to 21 for boys and 18 for girls.
At
Frankfurt,
Fritz von Opel made the world's first flight in a rocket-propelled plane, the
RAK.1, for about a mile and a quarter at an average altitude of 49 feet (15 m). Opel crashed upon landing but was unhurt.[69][70]
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^"Russians Push Chinese Army Back 40 Miles". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 12, 1929. p. 6.
^"Mussolini Gives up Seven of his 8 Cabinet Jobs". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 12, 1929. p. 1.
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