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Coal miners in New South Wales, Australia were locked out by their employers for refusing to accept a wage cut.
A regiment of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army loyal to warlord Zhang Zongchang began a revolt in western Beijing, throwing the city into chaos. Though the uprising was quickly crushed by loyalist soldiers, martial law was consequently declared in the city.
The San Francisco Bay toll bridge (since replaced by the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge) opened. Measuring 12 miles (19 km), it was the longest bridge in the world at the time.
An Italian commission released the findings of its investigation into the airship Italia disaster. The report assigned virtually all of the blame to North Pole expedition commander Umberto Nobile.
A death toll of 2,390 people in France was reported for the recently-ended ten days of extremely cold weather.
The Inauguration of Herbert Hoover as 31st President of the United States took place in Washington, D.C. This was the first presidential inauguration to be recorded by sound newsreels, though the microphone did not project Hoover's voice well.
Mexican rebels retreated from Saltillo as President Emilio Portes Gil issued a statement saying the revolution had been defeated.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was giving a lecture on the paranormal in Nairobi when he displayed a photograph of a supposed ghost in a haunted house in Nottingham. A well-known Nairobi dentist bolted out of his seat and identified himself as the "ghost", explaining that he had posed for the photo in a white sheet some years ago as a trick after he and other members of a party had investigated the house for two weeks and had failed to find any ghost. Doyle accepted the man's explanation, expressed regret at being hoaxed and said he would not show the photograph again.
Leon Trotsky gave his first interview to the foreign press in his apartment in Turkey, saying he was writing a book tracing the history of his opposition to Joseph Stalin and expressing a desire to go to Germany because he preferred the care of German physicians.
Died:Sherry Magee, 44, American baseball player, died of pneumonia
Thursday, March 14, 1929
Elba, Alabama, was submerged under 10 feet of flood water when the Pea River overflowed. Alabama Governor Bibb Graves delivered a radio broadcast pleading for urgent relief efforts.
The Fox Film Corporation, Pathé News and Paramount News unanimously declared after checking their inauguration film footage that Chief Justice William Howard Taft had misstated the Oath of Office when he called on Herbert Hoover to swear to "preserve, maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States", substituting the word "maintain" for "protect". The flub had been caught by 13-year-old student Helen Terwilliger, who had listened to the live radio broadcast of the inauguration in eighth-grade history class in Walden, New York, and politely wrote to Taft about the error. Taft later laughed off his mistake by saying, "I think you'll have to get along with what I've already said. After all, I don't think it's important."
Friday, March 15, 1929
Severe flooding spread to the states of Georgia and Florida.
The Mickey Mouse cartoon short Plane Crazy was released. It was the first Mickey Mouse film made but the fourth to be shown in theaters.
Sociologist and NAACP co-founder W. E. B. DuBois debated white supremacist Lothrop Stoddard in a Chicago auditorium. The topic, ‘’Shall the Negro Be Encouraged to Seek Cultural Equality?’’, drew an audience of 5,000.
Monday, March 18, 1929
Mexican President Emilio Portes Gil announced that the rebels had opened negotiations for terms of peace.
Roger Bannister, English athlete who was the first person to run one mile in less than four minutes; in Harrow, London (d. 2018)
Mark Rydell, American actor, director and producer; in New York City
Died:Denny Williams, 35, American baseball player who had played in the 1928 season, was killed when a car struck and overturned the automobile in which he was riding.
Sunday, March 24, 1929
The National Fascist Party won general elections in Italy with over 98% of the vote. Opposition parties were banned and the electorate merely voted 'yes' or 'no' to a single list of candidates.
One hundred thousand mourners filed past the coffin of Ferdinand Foch enshrined underneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. One man was killed and many injured in the crush to file past the flag-draped bier.
Jackie Fields defeated Jack Thompson by 10-round decision in Chicago to claim the vacant world welterweight title. 35 were injured in a riot that broke out in the eighth round after two black spectators took offense to something that a heckler yelled at the African-American boxer Thompson.
Al Capone appeared before a grand jury in Chicago for the second time in a week. After completing his testimony he was arrested for contempt of court and released after posting $500 bail.
China and Japan signed the Shandong Agreement; Japan agreed to withdraw from Shandong and pay government damages, but not indemnities.
Rumors were confirmed that RCA had sold its communication interests to the International Telephone & Telegraph company in exchange for $100 million worth of stock.
The drama film Christina, with synchronized sound effects and music but no audible dialogue, premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City.
Sunday, March 31, 1929
The second Trans-American Footrace, nicknamed the "Bunion Derby", began in New York City. 77 runners were competing for a total of $60,000 in prize money awarded to first 15 people to reach the finish line in Los Angeles.
The airplane Southern Cross and its crew temporarily went missing over northwest Australia, on the first leg of an attempt to fly from Sydney to England.
Died:Myron T. Herrick, 74, American politician and U.S. Ambassador to France
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"Paris Deaths Doubled Owing to Cold Wave". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 4, 1929. p. 4.
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Cornyn, John (March 4, 1929). "Mexicans Revolt; Seize Nogales and Vera Cruz". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
"Calles' Army Captures Durango, Rebels Flee". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 15, 1929. p. 1.
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"Capone, as U.S. Witness, Shuns His Old Haunts". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 21, 1929. p. 3.
Greenberg, Michael I. (2006). Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-made Disasters. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. p. 179. ISBN978-0-7637-3782-5.
"U.S. Guns Sink a British Ship; Sailor Killed". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 23, 1929. p. 1.
"Report Canada Charges U. S. Broke Treaty". Chicago Daily Tribune: 2. April 6, 1929.
Reid, John Howard (2008). Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide. Lulu.com. ISBN978-1-4357-1073-3.
Holston, Kim R. (2013). Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 65. ISBN978-0-7864-6062-5.
Kastner, Charles B. (2014). The 1929 Bunion Derby: Johnny Salo and the Great Footrace Across America. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. xv. ISBN978-0-8156-1036-6.
Myers, Jack (April 12, 1929). "Southern Cross Found; Report Crew Safe, Well". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 5.