Discovery of cosmic expansion
1929 · Event
Lemaître and Hubble find that distant galaxies recede; foundation of modern cosmology.
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Around 1929
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)