December 1929 in History

Events in History

Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins

Dec 14 Alexander Zaimis elected president of Greece
Dec 15 Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer is the first to fly over Mt. Kilimanjaro
Dec 20 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
Dec 21 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)

Dec 21 Coco the Clown first appears for Bertram Mills Circus in Manchester, England

Dec 29 Dutch colonial authorities arrest Sukarno and other key PNI leaders in Java

Dec 9 Bob Hawke, 23rd Australian Prime Minister (Labor: 1983-91), born in Bordertown, South Australia

Dec 12 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Look Back in Anger, Luther), born in London (d. 1994)
Dec 16 Ian Board, British barkeeper (the Colony Room), born in Devon (d.1994)

Dec 17 William Safire, American political columnist (NY Times) and speech writer (Nixon), born in NYC, New York (d. 2009)

Dec 19 Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
Dec 20 Milan Panić, Serbian-American politician and humanitarian, born in Belgrade, Serbia
Dec 23 Dick Weber, American ten-pin bowling pro (16, 300 games), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 2005)
Dec 23 Charles R Bentley, American pioneer of polar science, born in Rochester, New York (d. 2017)
Dec 28 Maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)
Dec 28 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
Dec 30 Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004)
Dec 31 Sidney Greenbaum, British scholar, born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1996)

Dec 7 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (52) weds Andrée Joséphine Carron in Aix-les-Bains, France

Dec 9 Businessman Howard Hughes divorces 1st wife Ella Rice after 4 years of marriage

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)