• 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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