Events of 1929

January-February

• January 1 - California loses to Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in the 15th Rose Bowl by a score of 8-7.
• 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 60 languages.
• January 15 - Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
• January 15 - First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in France by Armand Colin.

• 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 in January 29 and applies for sanctuary in France and Germany.
• January 29 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.

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

March-April

• 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.
• March 16 - A part-talkie film version of Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel rather than the musical, premieres in Palm Beach. The film stars Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut. It is critically panned and not successful at the box office.

May-June

• May - Wickersham Commission begins investigation of alcohol prohibition in U.S.
• 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 15 - A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• May 16 - 1st Academy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California, with Wings winning Best Picture.
• May 17 - Al Capone and bodyguard were arrested for concealing deadly weapons.
• May 31 - British general election returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.
• June 7'''
• In Britain Conservatives concede power rather than ally with the Liberals.
• The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified
• June 8 - Ramsay MacDonald founds new Labour government.
• June 12 - Annelies Marie Frank (Anne Frank) was born in Frankfurt am Main.
• June 16 - Otto E. Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (New York City to San Francisco, 4165 miles in 183 days).
• June 21 - Agreement brokered by US ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico. In June 27, church bells ring for the first time in years
• June 27 - First public demonstration of color TV, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system was used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.

July-August

• 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
• 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).
• July 25 - Pope Pius XI emerges from the Vatican and enters St. Peter's square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of papal self-imprisonment within the Vatican.
• July 27 - Third Geneva Convention.
• 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.
• August 23 - The 1929 Palestine riots of the Hebron, Safed, and Gaza Jewish communities got underway.

September-October

• September 5 - Aristide Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe.
• September 7 - Steamboat Kuru sinks in Näsijärvi, Tampere, Finland claiming 136 lives.
• September 17 - Coup ousts Augustinas Voldemaras in Lithuania; new president is Antanas Smetona
• October 11 - JC Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
• October 18 - Women are announced to be persons by the privy council in Britain. Women can be appointed to the Canadian Senate. Achieved by five Canadian women called the Famous Five.
• October 22 - Government of Aristide Briand falls in France.
• October 24 - The start of the Black Thursday stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
• October 28 - Black Monday stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange
• October 29 - Black Tuesday stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange

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November-December

• November 1 Annual Solar Eclipse of 1929 Nov 01.
• November - Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for color television.
• November 7 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
• November 15 - The Ambassador Bridge is opened to traffic.
• 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.
• November 29 - Floyd Bennett, US Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley, and Harold June, become the first to fly over the South Pole.
• December 2 - First Lightpoles 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 28 - "Black Saturday" in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.
• December 29 - All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence
• December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time

Undated

• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is proposed.
• Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history.
• Civil war in Afghanistan.
• Lapua Movement in Finland.
• Ross County F.C.founded in Dingwall, Scotland. They initially play in the Highland League.

Births

January-February

• January 3 - Sergio Leone, Italian film director (d. 1989)
• January 6 - Babrak Karmal, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, third President of Afghanistan (d. 1996)
• January 9 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
• January 15 - Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968)
• January 17 - Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986)
• January 20 - Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
• January 22 - Petr Eben, Czech composer (d. 2007)
• January 23 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 26 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
• January 26 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 1999)
• January 28 - Acker Bilk, American jazz clarinetist
• January 28 - Claes Oldenbourg, Swedish sculptor
• January 27 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (d. 1984)
• January 31 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 31 - Jean Simmons, English actress
• February 3 - Ken Shipp, American football coach
• February 5 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
• February 5 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
• February 6 - Pierre Brice, French actor
• February 6 - Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
• February 10 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
• February 14 - Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)
• February 15 - Graham Hill, English race car driver (d. 1975)
• February 17 - Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author (d. 2002)
• February 17 - Patricia Routledge, English actress
• February 18 - Len Deighton, British author
• February 22 - James Hong, Chinese actor
• February 28 - Hayden Fry, American football coach
• February 28 - Frank Gehry, Canadian-born architect

March-April

• March 1 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
• March 4 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
• March 4 - Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
• March 9 - Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
• March 17 - Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born sociologist
• March 23 - Sir Roger Bannister, British runner
• March 26 - Tom Foley, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• April 1 - Milan Kundera, Czech-born author
• April 1 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
• April 5 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• April 5 - Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (d. 2001)
• April 6 - André Previn, German-born pianist, composer, and conductor
• April 6 - Keijo Liinamaa, prime minister of Finland (d. 1980)
• April 6 - Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta), the legendary Bengali Actress, is born in Pabna (now in Bangladesh).
• April 8 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)
• April 9 - Fred Hollows, ophthalmologist (d. 1993)
• April 10 - Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
• April 17 - Michael Forest, American actor
• April 18 - Peter Jeffrey, British actor (d. 1999)
• April 24 - Rajkumar, Indian singer (d. 2006)
• April 29 - Fred Hollows, a famous Ophthalmologist, is born in New Zealand.

May-June

• May 1 - Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British social scientist and member of the House of Lords)
• May 4 - Emilio Enrico Belén, Spanish painter and poet
• May 4 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
• May 4 - Sydney MacDonald Lamb, American linguist
• May 6 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• May 8 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (d. 2007)
• May 10 - Mel Lewis, American jazz musician (d. 1990)
• May 10 - Antonine Maillet, Canadian author
• May 14 - Henry McGee, English actor
• May 14 - Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player
• May 16 - Adrienne Rich, American poet
• May 21 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist
• May 25 - Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
• June 1 - Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
• June 2 - Norton Juster, American author and architect
• June 3 - Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• June 6 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
• June 10 - Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (d. 2005)
• June 12 - Brigid Brophy, English author (d. 1995)
• June 12 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
• June 13 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
• June 16 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
• June 17 - Tigran Petrosian, Russian chess player (d. 1984)
• June 18 - Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism.
• June 21 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
• June 23 - June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
• June 26 - Milton Glaser, American graphic designer
• June 29 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (note - some sources indicate July 24 as date of birth; d. 2006)
• June 30 - Hans Krondahl, Swedish painter and textile designer

July-August

• July 1 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• July 2 - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
• July 4 - Bill Tuttle, baseball player
• July 5 - Tony Lock, English cricketer (d. 1995)
• July 9 - King Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
• July 11 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (d. 1998)
• July 13 - Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast
• July 18 - Dick Button, American figure skater
• July 18 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (d. 2000)
• July 25 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician
• July 26 - Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born pianist
• July 28 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of John F Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis (d. 1994)
• July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
• August 1 - Hafizullah Amin, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, second President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
• August 5 - Reg Lindsay, Australian country music legend (d. 2008)
• August 8 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
• August 9 - Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights (d. 1979)
• August 16 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (d. 1980)
• August 16 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
• August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
• August 24 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2004)
• August 26 - Maurice Tempelsman, Belgian diamond merchant and financier
• August 27 - Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
• August 28 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
• August 29 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)

September-October

• September 1 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
• September 3 - James J. Bulger, FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive
• September 4 - Thomas Eagleton, American senator (d. 2007)
• September 5 - Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor
• September 5 -Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (d. 2004)
• September 6 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2004)
• September 8 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
• September 9 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
• September 15 - Eva Burrows, General of The Salvation Army
• September 15 -Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 20 - Anne Meara, American comedienne and actress
• September 21 - Bernard Williams, British philosopher (d. 2003)
• September 25 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian (d. 2005)
• September 25 - Barbara Walters, American journalist
• October 1 - Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby league identity
• October 7 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
• October 12 - Robert Coles, American psychologist and author
• October 12 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born British television presenter (d. 2007)
• October 14 - Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer
• October 16 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• October 21 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American author
• October 22 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
• October 24 - George Crumb, American composer
• October 24 -Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright (d. 2004)
• October 28 - John Hollander, American poet
• October 29 - Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and a former Prime Minister of Russia.

November-December

• November 2 - Rachel Ames, American actress
• November 2 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
• November 2 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• November 4 - Doris Roberts, American actress
• November 7 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• November 8 - Lal Krishna Advani, Indian politician
• November 9 - Imre Kertesz, Hungarian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• November 11 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
• November 12 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
• November 13 - Fred Phelps, leader of the Westboro Baptist Church
• November 15 - Edward Asner, American actor
• November 19 - Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
• November 28 - Berry Gordy, Musician
• November 30 - Dick Clark, American television entertainer
• December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-born conductor
• December 9 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
• December 13 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
• December 16 - Nicholas Courtney, British actor
• December 16 - James Moore, British author
• December 17 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (d. 1993)
• December 23 - Chet Baker, American jazz musician (d. 1988)
• December 25 - Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter
• December 28 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (d. 1994)
• December 28 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (d. 1970)

Deaths

January - June

• January 5 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (b. 1856)
• January 13 - Wyatt Earp, American gunfighter (b. 1848)
• January 30 - La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)
• February 6 - Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
• February 11 - Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1840)
• February 12 - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
• February 14 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
• March 1 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
• March 5 - David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American inventor
• March 12 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• March 20 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
• April 4 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer (b. 1844)
• April 22 -Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
• April 24 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (b. 1855)
• May 21 - Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
• June 8 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
• June 11 - William Dickson Boyce, American entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1858)
• June 16 - Bramwell Booth, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
• June 28 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)

July - December

• July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
• August - Mary MacLane, Canadian feminist writer (b. 1881)
• August 3 - Thorstein Veblen, Norwegian-born economist (b. 1857)
• August 3 - Emil Berliner, German-born inventor (b. 1851)
• August 5 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)
• August 26 - Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar (b. 1843)
• August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (b. 1892)
• September 12 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
• September 23 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• September 24 - Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai doctor (b. 1892)
• September 29 - Tanaka Giichi, 26th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1863)

• October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
• October 3 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1890)
• October 3 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
• October 28 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
• November 6 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
• November 17 - Herman Hollerith, American businessman and inventor (b. 1860)
• November 24 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
• December 10 - Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898)
• December 20 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (b. 1838)
• December 29 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)

Nobel prizes

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

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