1929 - Wikipedia

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