Jomo Kenyatta, later Kenya's founding president, addressed a rally in London protesting British colonial land policies affecting the Kikuyu people.

The Dow Jones fell nearly 13% in a single session, one of the earliest brutal blows of the crash that ushered in the Great Depression.

The New York Stock Exchange crashes as panic selling wipes out billions of dollars, triggering the first tremors of the Great Depression.

Stock prices continued their catastrophic slide days after the initial crash, wiping out fortunes and accelerating the plunge into the Great Depression.

The New York Stock Exchange collapsed catastrophically as 16 million shares traded, wiping out fortunes and igniting the Great Depression.

French lawmakers approved funding for a chain of fortifications along the German border, a defensive strategy that would prove disastrously outflanked in 1940.

Mussolini approved plans to carve the Via della Conciliazione through Rome's medieval quarter, cementing the reconciliation between Italy and the Vatican.