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 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.
• October 24 - Black Thursday, beginning of the Great Depression

• 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.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 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
• 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 (+ 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 (+ 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 (+ 1982)
• February 15 - Graham Hill, Formula One racer (+ 1975)
• February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (+ 2002)
• February 17 - Patricia Routledge, actress
• February 18 - Len Deighton, author
• March 1 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (+ 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 14 - Gump Worsley[?], Hockey Hall of Famer
• May 16 - Friedrich Nowottny[?], journalist
• May 23 - Julian Euell[?], jazz musician
• May 25 - Beverly Skills[?], soprano
• June 12 - Anne Frank, German diarist of Jewish descent
• August 24 - Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority
• September 5 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
• October 22 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper
• October 24 - George Crumb, composer
• December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
• 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 - Lily Langtry[?], singer, actress
• March 6 - David Buick[?], automobile pioneer
• April 4 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer
• June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet
• August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics, and rocket engineer
• October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
• November 29 - Zeppo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers

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[?]