Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth U.S. President
(1923-1929)
Herbert Hoover, Thirty-first U.S. President
(1929-1933)
Statehood
48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition
Education: Higher (College)
1.1 million students enrolled in college 1929-1930.
“most of these students were seeking a professional or technical education, primarily in education, business, and engineering, and enrolled not in the universities but in the growing number of junior colleges
(277 by 1930) and the teacher education institutions.”
Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 156,
160 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010
see
1933 for next event...
Food: 7UP goes on sale. Gerbers introduces canned baby food.
Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook.
p 165
Money: Stock Market Crashes in October 1929 and starts the worldwide economic "Great Depression".
- Natural Resources:
Grand Teton National Park Created
PBS Timeline.
- Photography:
Edward S. Curtis
(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)
