1929

Years: 1927 1928 - 1929 - 1930 1931 1932
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January

January 2 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
January 9 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).
January 10 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages, and loved across the world.
January 15 - First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in France by Armand Collin .
January 17 - Popeye, a comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, makes his debut.
January 18 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Union; he moves to Turkey January 29 and applies for sanctuary in France and Germany
January 29 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.

February

February 11 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty
February 11 - Eugene O'Neill's Dynamo premieres in New York
February 14 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters rivalling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago.
February 18 - First Academy Awards are announced
February 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.

March

March 3 - Revolt attempt of Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre fails in Mexico.
March 4 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge.

May

May 13 - National Crime Syndicate founded in Atlantic City.
May 14 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
May 31 - British general election returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.

June

June 7 - In Britain Tories concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority
June 8 - Ramsay MacDonald founds new Labour government.

July

July 5 - Scotland Yard seizes 12 nude paintings of D.H. Lawrence from the Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency
July 24 - French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by Aristide Briand
July 24 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).

August

August 8 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).
August 19 - The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

September

September 5 - Aristide Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe
September 7 - Steamboat Kuru sinks in Näsijärvi, Tampere, Finland - 136 drowned
September 17 - Coup ousts Augustinas Voldemaras in Lithuania; new president is Antas Smetona

October

October 11 - JC Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
October 22 - Government of Aristide Briand falls in France
October 24 - Great Depression begins: Black Thursday and then Black Tuesday (October 29) - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis.

November

November 7 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
November 18 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area, killing 28. As of 1997, it is Canada's most lethal earthquake.[1]
November 29 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.

December

December 2 - First phone booths in London
December 3 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.
December 29 - All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence

Unknown dates

The Museum of Modern Art is founded
Third Geneva Convention
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is proposed.
Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history.
Civil war in Afghanistan
Muslim Brotherhood founded in Egypt
Lapua Movement in Finland
Heathrow Airport
Branch Davidian sect founded in Los Angeles
Start of the Soviet-Chinese Conflict

Year in topic

1929 in aviation
1929 in film
- January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
- May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed
- The Broadway Melody
1929 in literature
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1929 in music
- December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time
1929 in rail transport
1929 in science
1929 in sports
- February 1 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
1929 in television
- June 27 - The first public demonstration of a mechanical color television, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are of a bouquet of roses and an American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington.
- Milton Berle appears in an experimental television broadcast.

Births

January

January 3 - Sergio Leone, director (d. 1989)
January 6 - Babrak Karmal, later third President of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
January 15 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader (d. 1968)
January 17 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey star
January 20 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR race car driver (d. 1964)
January 26 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer
January 28 - Acker Bilk, musician
January 28 - Claes Oldenbourg, artist
January 31 - Jean Simmons, actress

February

February 5 - Fred Sinowatz, politician
February 6 - Pierre Brice, actor
February 11 - Leonard Gregory Kastle , composer.
February 14 - Vic Morrow, actor (d. 1982)
February 15 - Graham Hill, Formula One racer (d. 1975)
February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (d. 2002)
February 17 - Patricia Routledge, actress
February 18 - Len Deighton, author
February 28 - Hayden Fry, college football coach
February 28 - Frank Gehry, Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

March

March 1 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
March 4 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
March 6 - Günter Kunert , writer and lyricist
March 16 - Nadja Tiller , actress
March 17 - Peter L. Berger, sociologist
March 23 - Sir Roger Bannister, British runner

April

April 1 - Milan Kundera, author
April 6 - André Previn, composer, conductor
April 8 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)

May

May 4 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
May 4 - Sydney MacDonald Lamb, American linguist, father of stratificational grammar
May 10 - Antonine Maillet, Acadian author
May 14 - Gump Worsley, Hockey Hall of Famer
May 16 - Friedrich Nowottny , journalist
May 21 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboe player
May 23 - Julian Euell , jazz musician
May 25 - Beverly Sills, American soprano

June

June 2 - Norton Juster, author and architect
June 12 - Anne Frank, German diarist of Jewish descent (d. 1945).
June 12 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
June 13 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
June 17 - Tigran Petrosian, World chess champion (d. 1984).

October

October 14 - Yvon Durelle, boxing champion
October 22 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper
October 24 - George Crumb, composer
October 24 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright

November

November 2 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
November 4 - Doris Roberts, actress (Everybody Loves Raymond)
November 7 - Eric R. Kandel, neurobiology researcher and Nobel laureate
November 8 - Lal Krishna Advani, Indian politician
November 12 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
November 30 - Dick Clark, American television entertainer

December

December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
December 9 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
December 28 - Terry Sawchuk, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (d. 1970)
December 28 - Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (d. 1994)

Deaths

January 5 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia
January 13 - Wyatt Earp, Western legend
January 30 - La Goulue, Cancan dancer
February 8 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain
February 12 - Lillie Langtry, singer, actress
February 14 - Tom Burke, American runner
March 6 - David Buick , automobile pioneer
March 20 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
April 4 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer
April 24 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist
June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet
June 11 - William Dickson Boyce,founder of the Boy Scouts of America
August - Mary MacLane, feminist and bi-sexual writer
August 3 - Thorstein Veblen, economist
August 3 - Emil Berliner, inventor
August 5 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist
August 26 - Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar in East Asia
August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics
October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
October 3 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress
December 5 - Togo, one of the sled dogs from the 1925 serum run to Nome, which is commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska
December 10 - Harry Crosby, publisher, poet

Nobel Prizes

External links

About.com: 1929 Stock Market Crash
Stock Market Crash of 1929-Learn about the disastrous crash that lead to the Great Depression

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