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November 13, 1929

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STOCKS SINK TO NEW LOWS; SELLING PUZZLES WALL ST.; GRAIN AND COTTON ALSO OFF; PREMIER ISSUES HARD HIT Steel Rally Is Broken Quickly and the Entire List Then Drops. LOSSES UP TO 35 POINTS Wall St. Mystified by Origin of 6,452,770 Shares Traded in Three-Hour Session. COTTON IS DOWN $1 A BALE Wheat Loses 7 Cents a Bushel --Average of 25 Industrials Is Near Half of Year's High.

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Govs deny rept of temporary suspension until financial situation rights itself

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Notable Births

Robert Bonnaud

1929Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (died 2013)[†]

Robert Bonnaud was a French anti-colonialist historian and professor of history at the Paris Diderot University.

Fred Phelps

1929Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded the Westboro Baptist Church (died 2014)[†]

Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election in Kansas. A divisive and controversial figure, he gained national attention for his homophobic views and protests near the funerals of gay people, AIDS victims, military veterans, and disaster victims whom he believed were killed as a result of God punishing the U.S. for having "bankrupt values" and tolerating homosexuality. Phelps founded the Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka, Kansas-based independent Primitive Baptist congregation, in 1955. It has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America". Its signature slogan, "God Hates Fags", remains the name of the group's principal website.

Asashio Tarō III

1929Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (died 1988)[†]

Asashio Tarō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tokunoshima in the Amami Islands. He was the sport's 46th yokozuna. He was also a sumo coach and head of Takasago stable.

Notable Deaths

Princess Viktoria of Prussia

1929Princess Viktoria of Prussia (born 1866)[†]

Princess Viktoria of Prussia was the second daughter of Frederick III, German Emperor and his wife Victoria, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria. Born a member of the Prussian royal house of Hohenzollern, she became Princess Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe following her first marriage in 1890.