1929 - What happened in 1929 ?

January 1929

Wednesday 02:

Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.

Sunday 06:

King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura.)

Wednesday 09:

The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).

Thursday 17:

Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appeared in a newspaper comic strip.

Thursday 31:

The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.

February 1929

Friday 01:

Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.

Monday 11:

Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.

Thursday 14:

St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters rivalling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

Monday 18:

First Academy Awards are announced.

Tuesday 26:

The Grand Teton National Park is created.

March 1929

Tuesday 05:

LanChile airline begins operations.

April 1929

Monday 08:

Indian Independence Movement At Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw handouts, and bombs in a corridor not to cause injury and courted arrest.

May 1929

Tuesday 14:

Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.

Thursday 16:

In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.

Thursday 23:

The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid, was released.

Friday 24:

The Cocoanuts, the first film to star the Marx Brothers, opens.

June 1929

Friday 07:

Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.

July 1929

Monday 15:

First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.

Wednesday 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 1929

Thursday 08:

The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).

Sunday 11:

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

Monday 19:

The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its NBC debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

Friday 23:

1929 - Arabs attack Jews in Israel

Saturday 24:

Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.

October 1929

Thursday 03:

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".

Friday 11:

JC Penney open Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.

Wednesday 23:

Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.

Thursday 24:

"Black Thursday" crash of the New York Stock Exchange.

Tuesday 29:

The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

November 1929

Thursday 07:

In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.

Monday 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.

Friday 29:

US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.

December 1929

Tuesday 03:

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.

Tuesday 31:

Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time