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Events of 1929

January-February

January 2: Niagara agreement.

• 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 - 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.

Feb.26: Grand Teton National Park.

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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.

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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 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 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
  • First Academy Awards are presented.

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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.

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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. Canadian women can be appointed to the 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 29 - Black Tuesday stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange Because the bankiers of New York wanted a fed reserve bank..

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression

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November-December

• November 1 Annular Solar Eclipse of 1929 Nov 01.
• November - Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour 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.[1]
• November 29 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person 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 29 - All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence
• December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time

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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.

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Births

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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
  • Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 1999)
  • Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
• January 28
  • Acker Bilk, American jazz clarinetist
  • Claes Oldenbourg, Swedish sculptor
• January 27 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (d. 1984)
• January 31
  • Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Jean Simmons, English actress
• February 5
  • Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
  • Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
• February 6 - Pierre Brice, French actor
• 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)
  • Patricia Routledge, English actress
• February 18 - Len Deighton, British author
• February 22 - James Hong, Chinese actor
• February 28
  • Hayden Fry, American football coach
  • Frank Gehry, Canadian-born architect

is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Babrak Karmal (January 6, 1929 - December 3, 1996) was the third President of Afghanistan (1979 - 1986) during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. ... Afghanistan has only intermittently been a republic - between 1973-1992 and from 2001 onwards - at other times being governed by a variety of kings, emirs and (under the mujahideen and Taliban regimes in the 1990s) Islamist rulers. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Brian Friel (born 9 January 1929) is a playwright and director from Northern Ireland. ... is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Joseph Jacques Omer Jake the Snake Plante (born January 17, 1929 in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec; died February 27, 1986 in Sierre, Switzerland) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Edward Glenn Fireball Roberts, Jr. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Petr Eben (22 January 1929 – 24 October 2007) was one of the most distinguished composers in the Czech Republic. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Charles Polanyi (born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Gordon Solie Gordon Solie, real name Francis Jonard Labiak (January 26, 1929 – July 27, 2000), was a professional wrestling play-by-play announcer working for World Championship Wrestling. ... This article is about the year. ... Jules Feiffer (1958) Jules Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. ... is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Acker Bilk (often referred to as Mr. ... Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen 1999, painted stainless steel and Fiberglas National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is a sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large versions of everyday objects. ... is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Gastón Suárez (born January 27, 1929 – November 6, 1984) was a Bolivian novelist and dramatist. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (born January 31, 1929) is a German physicist who studied gamma rays from nuclear transitions. ... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in Angel Face Jean Merilyn Simmons (born January 31, 1929 in Crouch Hill, London, England, United Kingdom) is a British actress. ... is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Luc Ferrari (February 5, 1929 – August 22, 2005) was a French composer, particularly noted for his tape music. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fred Sinowatz (born February 5, 1929 in Neufeld an der Leitha, Burgenland) is a former Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ). He was Chancellor of Austria from 1983 to 1986. ... is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Pierre Brice (born 6 February 1929 in Brest, France), birth name Baron Pierre Louis de Bris, is a French actor, mainly known to the audience for his role as fictional Apache-chief Winnetou in German Karl May movies. ... is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Victor Vic Morrow (February 14, 1929 - July 23, 1982) born Bronx, New York was a Jewish-American actor. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Norman Graham Hill, known as Graham Hill (February 15, 1929 - November 29, 1975) was an English racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE (born 17 February 1929) is a Tony Award-winning English actress who is best known to television audiences for her role of Hyacinth Bucket in the television comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. ... is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Len Deighton (left) teaches Michael Caine how to break an egg on the set of The IPCRESS File. ... is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... James Hong (吳æ¼