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1929




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.
   * 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 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.
   * 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
        o January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was
          the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
        o May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed
        o The Broadway Melody
   * 1929 in literature
        o The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
   * 1929 in music
        o December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time
   * 1929 in sports
        o February 1 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter
          to lift over 400 pounds in the "clean and jerk" method.
   * 1929 in television
        o 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.
        o 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 - GŸnter Kunert, writer and lyricist
   * March 16 - Nadja Tiller, actress
   * March 23 - Roger Bannister, athlete, first "Miracle Mile"
   * April 1 - Milan Kundera, author
   * April 6 - AndrŽ 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 Poto?nik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of astronautics
     and cosmonautics, and rocket engineer
   * October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor

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

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