Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• The British General election returned a historic victory for Labour who polled less votes than the Conservatives
• February 11th - Mussolini and the Pope agreed to create a Vatican State
• February 17th - First in-flight movie shown on an internal flight in the USA
• May Day riots demonstrations of Communists in Berlin and 23 people were killed
• May - Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford presented the first 'Oscars' for outstanding films
• June 7th - First british woman, Margaret Bondfield, cabinet minister appointed
• June 27th - First colour television image demonstrated in New York
• August 19th - Death of Sergei Diaghilev, impresario of Russian Ballet
• August 28th - The German airship Graf Zeppelin arrived in Los Angeles after crossing the Pacific from Tokyo in 12 days as part of its round the world flight in 21 days
• September 5th - United States of Europe suggested by French premier Briand, Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing war comes into operation
• October 24th - Wall Street Crash began with 13 million shares changing hands, in 4 days 5 billion dollars were wiped off stock and share values. This set off the great world wide depression of the 30s when at its worst 1 person in 3 (of the employable) was unemployed in the US
• October - Viceroy of India Lord Irwin stated that India would eventually be granted dominion status
• November 18th - The Japanese began to invade Manchuria
• November - some American police have started making sound-films of prisoners under interrogation to shown in court.
• December 2nd - Britains first 22 public telephone boxes came into service
• December 8th - Nazi Party victorious in Bavarian municipal elections
• Books - Robert Graves Goodbye to All That describing with realism the degradation suffered by the men who died in the trenches as a result of obstinate stupidity of the generals.
• Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front told the story of unspeakable horrors endured by the German troops in trench warfare
• A 2 seater Morris Minor cost £100 (GBP)

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January 26th

• Photo - About To Keep His Seventieth Birthday In Exile; The Ex-Kaiser Feeding Ducks At Doorn.
• The Great Partnership In The Second Test Match, Played At Sydney, And Won By England By Eight Wickets
  The First Maya Mosaic Ever Found; A Unique Discovery (4 Photos)
  From The World's Scrap-Book; News Items Of Topical Interest (7 Photos Inc. Photo The First All-Metal Dirigible)
  "Self-Portraits" By Napoleon - And Other World Pictures - Being An Appreciation Of "Memoirs Of Napoleon I" - Compiled From His Own Writings By F M Kircheisen (Photo)
  Personalities Of The Week; People In The Publics Eye (12 Photos)
  The Afghan "Kaleidoscope"; Kabul And Kandahar Photographs (7 Photos)
  How Inayatullah Left Kabul; Steeds Of The "Knights Volant" (R.A.F. Rescue Flights (3 Photos)
  Sumerian Art And Human Sacrifice (2 Illustrations)
  Sumerian Art "Finds" At Ur; Ram Statues, And Other Relics (4 Photos)
  Art Treasures Of The "Death-Pit" At Ur; Sacrificed Women's Adornments; Harps; And Daggers (5 Photos)
  The Watch On The Burglar In Berlin; A Company Of Armed Men Assisted By Trained Dogs (4 Photos)
  The World Of The Theatre (3 Photos)
  Colour Plates;- A Gem Of The Dutch Art Exhibition; A Terborch At The Royal Academy, A Vermeer At The Royal Academy
  Germany's New War-Ship; Higher Power Within Treaty Limits
  The Cruiser Controversy; New Types Of War-Ships Resulting From The Washington Treaty
  Colour Plate:- Tutankhamen And His Queen Portrayed By A Modern Painter
  Photo From A Painting:- Akin To Craft Racing From Australia To England; "The Clipper Glory Of The Seas"
  The World Of Science - Concerning The "King - Cheetah" (3 Photos)
  Wave Stresses On Ships In A Gale; "Sagging" And "Hogging" (Illustrations)
  Akin To The "Majestic's" Experience; Ships Under The Stress Of Big Seas (6 Photos)
  The Art Of Dining
  Adverts : Barclay's Lager), Ovaltine - Glowing Health (Ski Slopes), The Duo -Art 'Pianola Piano'
  Grosvenor House Hotel, Mansion Polish, Lanchester Cars, Hovis, Gas, Thorneycroft Standard Class Cruisers

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November 30, 1929 issue of the London Illustrated News. Has a full page article by G. K. Chesterton, a full page Guinness Beer ad

a full page of illustrations (3 pictures) of the Mammoth of Moravia, a full page of illustrations and text on using paraffin in taxidermy etc etc