Betty Dodson was an American sex educator. An artist by training, she exhibited erotic art in New York City, before pioneering the pro-sex feminist movement. Dodson's workshops and manuals encourage women to masturbate, often in groups.

1929Pierre Mazeaud, French jurist, politician and alpinist^[†]

Pierre Mazeaud is a French jurist, politician and alpinist.

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1929Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.^[†]

The Hebron massacre was the killing of sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine. The event also left scores seriously wounded or maimed. Jewish homes were pillaged and synagogues were ransacked.

Headlines from August 24, 1929

Mrs. Lindbergh Makes Her First Solo Flight; Colonel Smiles Broadly as Pupil Takes Off

$10,000 SWIM WON BY NEW YORK GIRL; Miss Norelius Finishes First in Toronto Contest, Viewed by 100,000 Persons. MOST OF 45 STARTERS QUIT Eel Bite and Chills Reduce Field of Stars in Ten-Mile Event.

ITALIAN FLIER KILLED IN SCHNEIDER TEST; Capt. Giuseppe Motta Dies as Plane at Great Speed Dives Into Lake Garda. TRAGEDY LAID TO FUMES Request for Race Delay Is Refused by British Aero Club, as Barred by Rules.

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