1929

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 - 1929 - 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934

Events

• 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 debute. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages and loved across the world.
• January 17 - Popeye, a comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar makes his debut.
• January 29 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed
• January 31 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
• 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, Illinois.
• February 18 - First Academy Awards are announced
• February 20 - American Samoa becomes organized as a territory of the United States
• February 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.
• 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 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.
• October 11 - JC Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
• 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 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.
• November 29 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
• December 3 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to 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.

• Change of US presidency from Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) to Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
• The Museum of Modern Art is founded
• Third Geneva Convention
• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is proposed.

Year in topic

• 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 sports
  • February 1 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds 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 3 - Sergio Leone, director (d. 1989)
• January 26 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer
• January 28 - Acker Bilk, musician
• January 28 - Claes Oldenbourg, artist
• January 31 - Jean Simmons, actress
• January 15 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader (d. 1968)
• January 17 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey star
• 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 18 - Hayden Fry, college football coach
• March 1 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
• March 6 - Günter Kunert, writer and lyricist
• March 16 - Nadja Tiller, actress
• March 23 - Roger Bannister, athlete, first "Miracle Mile"
• April 1 - Milan Kundera, author
• April 6 - André Previn, composer, conductor
• May 4 - Audrey Hepburn, actress
• May 10 - Antonine Maillet, Acadian author
• May 14 - Gump Worsley, Hockey Hall of Famer
• May 16 - Friedrich Nowottny, journalist
• May 23 - Julian Euell, jazz musician
• May 25 - Beverly Sills, soprano
• June 2 - Norton Juster, author and architect
• June 12 - Anne Frank, German diarist of Jewish descent
• June 12 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
• July 2 - Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines
• July 24 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author
• August 24 - Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority
• September 5 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
• September 25 - Barbara Walters, journalist
• October 22 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper
• October 24 - George Crumb, composer
• November 2 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
• December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
• December 28 - Terry Sawchuk, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (d. 1970)
• Frank Gehry, Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
• Sydney M. Lamb, American linguist, father of stratificational grammar
• Babrak Karmal, politician
• Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan

Deaths

• January 5 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia
• January 13 - Wyatt Earp, Western legend
• February 8 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain
• February 12 - Lillie Langtry, singer, actress
• March 6 - David Buick, automobile pioneer
• April 4 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer
• June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet
• August 3 - Thorstein Veblen, economist
• August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics
• October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
• December 10 - Harry Crosby, publisher, poet

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
• Chemistry - Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
• Medicine - Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
• Literature - Thomas Mann
• Peace - Frank Billings Kellogg

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