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1929
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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
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
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