Timeline November 1929

Events in November 1929 4

• 1841 – 1929 Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) Died 24 November 1929, aged 88 French statesman, known as "Le Tigre", who was Prime Minister in the last years of the First World War. He was a principal architect of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1929 Museum of Modern Art opens in New York MoMA's first exhibition opens in Manhattan The Museum of Modern Art opened in rented rooms in the Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue with an exhibition of Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Van Gogh. It was founded by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan, and became one of the most influential modern art museums in the world.
• 1929 – 1982 Grace Kelly (1929-1982) Died 14 September 1982, aged 52 American actress who became Princess of Monaco after retiring from film. She died from injuries sustained when her car went off a mountain road near Monte Carlo.
• 1929 Byrd flies over the South Pole First flight over the South Pole Richard E. Byrd's Ford Trimotor Floyd Bennett, piloted by Bernt Balchen, flew from Little America on the Ross Ice Shelf over the South Pole and back. The flight took about 19 hours.