1929

Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1926 1927 1928 - 1929 - 1930 1931 1932

1929 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature Music (Country) - Radio - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation Meteorology - Rail transport - Science
By country
Australia - Canada - India - Ireland Malaysia - New Zealand - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe
Other topics
Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders Sovereign states - Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works - Introductions v • d • e

Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents (full)

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

[edit] Events of 1929

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ExchangeBecause the bankiers of NY wanted a fed res..

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

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

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.