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the United States Senate has met in closed session 54 times since 1929 , but closed sessions of the United States House of Representatives have taken place only five times since 1825 ?
the Alexander Aircraft Company , which produced Eaglerock biplanes in Colorado , was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world for a brief period between 1928 and 1929 ?
the Ascension Convent in the Moscow Kremlin , known as a traditional burial place of Muscovite tsarinas , was dismantled in 1929 to make room for the Red Commanders School?
in 1929 the Graf Zeppelin completed a circumnavigation of the globe in 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes?
after Oklahoma Governor Henry S. Johnston was impeached in 1929 , it would be 60 years before another U.S. Governor is impeached?
capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969 ?
Jatin Das , an Indian freedom fighter , died after sixty three days of hunger strike demanding rights for prisoners and undertrials in Lahore jail in 1929 ?
William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
football (soccer) player Law Adam of Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929 , but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland a year later?
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