1929 - Definition and Overview

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 debute. 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, Illinois.
• February 18 - First Academy Awards are announced
• February 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.

March

• March 3 - Revolt attempt of Jesus Aguirre fails in Mexico.

May

• May 13 - National Crime Syndicate founded in Atlantic City.
• 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] (http://www.shunpiking.com/ol0103/1929_Tsunami_in_NF.pdf)
• 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

• 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.
• Greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in US history.
• Catholic Church cedes the Papal States to Italy
• 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 - Roger Bannister, American 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
• June 12 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
• June 13 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)

July

• July 2 - Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines
• July 11 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (d. 1998)
• July 18 - Dick Button, Olympic gold-medal-winning figure skater, television analyst
• July 24 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author
• July 25 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician

August

• August 1 - Hafizullah Amin, second president of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
• August 24 - Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)
• August 28 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)

September

• September 5 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
• September 6 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2004)
• September 8 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
• September 21 - Bernard Williams, British philosopher (d. 2003)
• September 25 - Barbara Walters, journalist

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 later Princess of Monaco
• 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
• 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 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

External links

• About.com: 1929 Stock Market Crash (http://mutualfunds.about.com/od/1929marketcrash/)
• Stock Market Crash of 1929 (http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929.htm)-Learn about the disastrous crash that lead to the Great Depression