1929 in History

Events 1 - 100 of 201

• Jan 2 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
• Jan 5 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
• Jan 6 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia

• Jan 7 "Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance in a newspaper
• Jan 7 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
• Jan 8 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
• Jan 8 "Man with a Movie Camera", Soviet experimental documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov, is released
• Jan 9 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
• Jan 10 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene" premieres in NYC
• Jan 12 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
• Jan 14 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
• Jan 17 Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
• Jan 18 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio

• Jan 19 Acadia National Park, Maine established
• Jan 19 Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec
• Jan 20 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
• Jan 21 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End" premieres in London
• Jan 26 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
• Jan 29 Seeing Eye Guide Dog organization forms in USA
• Jan 31 Erich Maria Remarque publishes "Im Westen nichts Neues" in Berlin
• Jan 31 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
• Feb 1 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
• Feb 3 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
• Feb 6 Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night"
• Feb 8 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
• Feb 9 USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov's Pact, providing for renunciation of war among its signatories
• Feb 10 Bishop Stephen Alencastre dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu
• Feb 11 Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo" premieres in NYC
• Feb 11 Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
• Feb 12 Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30)
• Feb 13 Cruiser Act, USA, approves the construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier
• Feb 13 Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop" premieres in Moscow

• Feb 16 KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
• Feb 19 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
• Feb 20 American Samoa organizes as territory of US

• Feb 27 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
• Mar 2 US Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
• Mar 4 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP

• Mar 6 Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
• Mar 8 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
• Mar 9 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius" premieres in Paris
• Mar 16 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
• Mar 17 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
• Mar 17 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
• Mar 18 Dmitri Shostakovitch's "The new Babylon" premieres in Leningrad
• Mar 22 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions


• Mar 22 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
• Mar 23 1st telephone installed at the President’s desk under the Hoover administration at the White House
• Mar 27 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
• Mar 27 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
• Mar 28 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
• Apr 1 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
• Apr 1 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
• Apr 1 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
• Apr 1 Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou" 24-minute film
• Apr 1 Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
• Apr 3 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
• Apr 3 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
• Apr 4 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
• Apr 5 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact

• Apr 11 KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
• Apr 11 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
• Apr 16 Cleve Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat
• Apr 18 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
• Apr 24 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
• Apr 24 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
• Apr 26 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
• Apr 30 Earnest Streeruwitz becomes Chancellor of Austria
• May 1 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
• May 1 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
• May 3 Prussia bans anti-fascists
• May 6 AL announces it will discontinue MVP award
• May 6 New York to San Francisco footrace begins
• May 8 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway

• May 9 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
• May 11 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
• May 11 Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin, Texas
• May 12 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
• May 15 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)
• May 19 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium, crushes 2 people to death

• May 21 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
• May 21 Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris
• May 28 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
• May 31 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
• Jun 3 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
• Jun 3 Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.
• Jun 5 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
• Jun 7 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour)
• Jun 7 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
• Jun 8 Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier
• Jun 9 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
• Jun 14 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 293

• Jan 1 Holling Gustav Vapor, character on Northern Exposure
• Jan 3 Marilyn Lloyd, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
• Jan 3 Sergio Leone, Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
• Jan 4 Amitai W Etzioni, US sociologist (Active Society)
• Jan 4 Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist
• Jan 6 Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
• Jan 9 Heiner Muller, dramatist
• Jan 9 Brian Friel, Irish dramatist "Irish Chekhov" (Dancing at Lughnasa), born in Omagh, County Tyrone, (d. 2015)
• Jan 9 Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
• Jan 12 Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher
• Jan 12 Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottis-born American philosopher

• Jan 16 Allard Lowenstein, radical (Students for Democratic Action)
• Jan 20 Bob Denard, French mercenary
• Jan 22 Rita Gillespie, TV director
• Jan 23 John Polanyi, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986), born in Berlin, Germany
• Jan 23 Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
• Jan 26 Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist (Passionella)/author (Little Murders), born in NYC, New York
• Jan 27 Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC
• Jan 27 Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
• Jan 28 Claes Oldenburg, US pop artist (Alphabet/Good Humor), born in Stockholm, Sweden
• Jan 29 Elio Petri, Italian director (Property is no theft)
• Jan 30 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
• Jan 31 Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
• Feb 4 Mary Joan Nielubowicz, rear admiral/nurse
• Feb 5 Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
• Feb 6 Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
• Feb 9 Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
• Feb 9 Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
• Feb 10 Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador (in Netherlands)
• Feb 10 Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
• Feb 13 Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama
• Feb 14 Matthew G Martinez, (Rep-D-CA, 1982- )
• Feb 15 James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
• Feb 16 Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel)
• Feb 17 Chaim Potok, American novelist (Promise), born in NYC, New York
• Feb 17 Nicholas Ridley, Lord Ridley of Liddesdale, English politician, Minister of Finance, born in Northumberland (d. 1993)
• Feb 18 Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author (Ipcress File, Fighter)
• Feb 21 Henry Kloss, American audio engineer (acoustic loudspeaker), born in Altoona, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
• Feb 24 David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
• Feb 25 Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, British church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity)
• Feb 28 Frank O Gehry, architect (Galleria-Oklahoma City)
• Feb 28 John Montague, Irish poet and 1st occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry, born in Brooklyn, New York
• Mar 1 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
• Mar 2 Sir Donald Gosling, British former-Chairman of "National Car Parks" and multi-millionaire, born in England
• Mar 6 Hal Miller, British MP
• Mar 6 Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83)
• Mar 6 Tom Foley, American politician (Rep-D, 1965-1995) and speaker of the house (1989-95), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 2013)
• Mar 9 Hugh Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese politician and President of Guyana (1985-92), born in Georgetown, Guyana (d. 2002)
• Mar 9 Marie Cardinal, French writer (La Clé Sur La Porte), born in French Algeria (d. 2001)
• Mar 11 Erskine Childers, unofficial/civil servant
• Mar 12 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
• Mar 12 U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist
• Mar 13 Jim Slater, British financier and writer, born in Heswall, Cheshire (d. 2015)
• Mar 13 Bill Cunningham, American fashion photographer (New York Times), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
• Mar 18 Christa Wolf, German novelist (Divided Heaven)
• Mar 18 John Macurdy, American bass
• Mar 23 Albert H Crews, American chemical and aeronautical engineer and USAF astronaut (X-20 Dyna-Soar program), born in El Dorado, Arkansas
• Mar 23 Michael Manser, English architect, born in Bristol (d. 2016)
• Mar 25 Harris W Fawell, (Rep-R-IL, 1985- )
• Mar 26 Edwin Turney, American businessman
• Mar 28 Aubrey Joseph Watson Sr., bishop
• Mar 29 Sheila Kitzinger, British author, anthropologist & child birth educator, born in Taunton, Somerset (d. 2015)
• Mar 29 Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist and writer, born in Matsumoto, Japan

• Mar 31 Bertram Fields, American lawyer
• Apr 1 Milan Kundera, Czech poet and writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being), born in Brno, Czechoslovakia
• Apr 1 Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator
• Apr 2 Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife), born in Dundalk Bay, County Louth, Ireland (d. 2009)
• Apr 2 Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA), born in Utrecht, Netherlands
• Apr 3 Dennis Farr, Museum director (Courtauld Institute Galleries) and art historian, born in Luton, Bedfordshire (d. 2006)
• Apr 4 William F. Clinger Jr., American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, born in Warren, Pennsylvania
• Apr 5 Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (Cool Lover, Sugar), born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 2008)
• Apr 6 Li Yuan-chia, Chinese artist (Ton Fan group), born in Guangxi, China (d. 1994)
• Apr 6 Willis Hall, British writer

• Apr 7 Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
• Apr 8 Renzo de Felice, historian
• Apr 11 Lawrence Coughlin, American lawyer and politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
• Apr 14 William Edgar Thornton, Faison NC, MD/astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk:49)
• Apr 15 Adrian Cadbury, confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance, (d. 2015)
• Apr 15 Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
• Apr 17 Eileen Stamers-Smith, headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
• Apr 17 Lady (James) Mellon, CEO (Volunteer Development Scotland)
• Apr 18 Peter Hordern, British CEO (Fina)
• Apr 20 Bob Braun, American TV and radio personality (Dotty Mack Show), born in Ludlow, Kentucky (d. 2001)
• Apr 22 Geoffrey Marshall, Provost (Queen's College, Oxford)
• Apr 22 Margaret Pereira, English forensic scientist (Nicholls and Pereira method), born in Bexley (d. 2017)
• Apr 22 Michael Atiyah, educator (Trinity College - Cambridge England)
• Apr 22 Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat/exec director (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
• Apr 22 Victoria Opoku-Ware, Ghanaian queen
• Apr 23 George Steiner, French-American literary critic and educator, born in Paris
• Apr 25 José Ángel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza), born in Orense, Spain (d. 2000)
• Apr 26 Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
• Apr 29 Walter Kempowski, German writer (German Chronicle), born in Rostock (d. 2007)
• Apr 29 [John] Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Liberal)
• May 3 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
• May 3 Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and political activist, born in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India (d. 1994)
• May 4 Sydney M. Lamb, American linguist (Stratificational grammar), born in Denver, Colorado
• May 6 John Polk Allen, Carnegie Oklahoma, CEO (Biosphere 2)

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• Jan 30 Mitford sister Diana Mitford (18) marries Irish peer Bryan Walter Guinness (23) in the British society wedding of the year
• May 1 American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton

• Jul 3 American Playwright Eugene O'Neill divorces second wife novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage

• Jan 2 Erich Wichman[n], Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at 38
• Jan 6 Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72
• Jan 7 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
• Jan 9 Heiner Muller, writer, dies
• Jan 11 Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28

• Jan 13 H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
• Jan 14 Cornelis W Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74
• Jan 19 Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
• Jan 24 Willem Royaards, theater directeor (Adam in Ballingschap), dies
• Feb 3 Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
• Feb 8 Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain, dies at 71
• Feb 12 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist, dies at 66
• Feb 28 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54
• Mar 1 Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
• Mar 5 David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
• Mar 12 Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
• Mar 20 Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WWI), dies at 77
• Mar 26 Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
• Mar 27 Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
• Mar 28 Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)

• Apr 10 Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot, dies at 36
• Apr 16 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57
• Apr 22 Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
• Apr 23 Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
• May 7 Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
• May 7 John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
• May 7 Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
• May 11 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)

• May 28 Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian and proponent of Irish independence, dies at 81
• Jun 8 Bliss Carman, Canadian poet, dies at 68
• Jun 11 Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68
• Jun 16 Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of The Salvation Army, dies at 73
• Jun 25 Georges Courteline [Moineau], French playwright, dies at 71
• Jun 28 Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure), dies at 84
• Jul 1 Henry Johnson, American soldier of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), 1st US WWI soldier to receive the Croix de guerre after fighting a German raid in hand-to-hand combat to rescue a fellow soldier (posthumous Medal of Honour, 2015), dies of myocarditis at 36
• Jul 12 Robert Henri, US painter (The Eight), dies at 63
• Jul 15 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
• Jul 22 Edouard baron Empain, Belgian builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76
• Jul 27 Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics, dies at 83
• Aug 3 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), dies at 72
• Aug 3 Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
• Aug 5 Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
• Aug 9 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
• Aug 10 Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and feminist, dies at 75
• Aug 10 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
• Aug 22 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WWI), dies at 74
• Aug 23 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
• Aug 27 Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
• Sep 12 Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
• Sep 23 Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
• Sep 29 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
• Sep 30 Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), dies at 64
• Oct 1 Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
• Oct 3 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
• Oct 4 John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37

• Oct 12 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
• Oct 20 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), dies at 76
• Oct 23 Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
• Oct 24 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74
• Oct 26 Arno Holz, German writer (Phantasus), dies at 66
• Oct 28 Hermann Ungar, Moravian writer, dies at 36
• Oct 28 Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany, dies at 80
• Oct 31 António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
• Nov 3 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
• Nov 6 Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
• Nov 6 Maximilian, Prince of Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918), dies at 62
• Nov 17 Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
• Nov 18 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78

• Dec 12 Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
• Dec 20 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
• Dec 29 Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)

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