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- Great Depression begins after the stock market
crash in October.
- Popeye comic strip debuts.
- St. Valentine’s Day massacre occurs in Chicago.
- Vatican City is established.
- Mechanical color
television is first publicly demonstrated.
- Penicillin is first used to fight bacterial infections.
- First-class postage stamp costs $0.02.
- First Academy Awards are announced.
- Life expectancy is 54.6 years.
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The
Welch Medical Library under construction.
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- Welch Library opens its doors on
December 1, 1928, and is dedicated
on October 17, 1929.
- The Welch Library has 8 staff members and the total
holdings amount to 79,264 volumes.
- Early decisions by library committee includes: WRR
may be used for medical meetings, conversazioni, teas and receptions
but not for card parties or dances.
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