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| ya2=1931
| ya3=1932

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'''1929''' '''(MCMXXIX)''' was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] (link will take you to calendar).

==Events==
{{Year F}}
===January===
* [[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 [[dog]]s to assist the [[blindness|blind]] ([[Nashville, Tennessee]]).
* [[January 10]] - [[Tintin]], a [[comic book]] [[fictional character|character]] created by [[Hergé]], makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages, and loved across the world.
* [[January 15]] - First issue of ''[[Annales]] d'histoire économique et sociale'' published in [[France]] by [[Armand Collin]].
* [[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 [[January 29]] and applies for sanctuary in France and Germany
* [[January 29]] - [[Service dog|Seeing Eye Dog]] organization is formed.

===February===
* [[February 11]] - [[Italy]] and the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] sign the [[Lateran Treaty]]
* [[February 11]] - [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''Dynamo'' premieres in [[New York City|New York]]
* [[February 14]] - [[St. Valentine's Day Massacre]]: Seven [[gangster]]s rivalling [[Al Capone]] are murdered in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
* [[February 18]] - First [[Academy Awards]] are announced
* [[February 26]] - The [[Grand Teton National Park]] is created.

===March===
* [[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]].

===May===
* [[May 13]] - [[National Crime Syndicate]] founded in [[Atlantic City]].
* [[May 14]] - [[Wilfred Rhodes]] takes his 4000th [[first-class cricket|first-class]] wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
* [[May 31]] - British [[general election]] returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.

===June===
* [[June 7]] - In Britain [[Tory Party|Tories]] concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority
* [[June 8]] - [[Ramsay MacDonald]] founds new [[Labour Party (UK)|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

===July===
* [[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]]
* [[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===
* [[August 8]] - The [[Germany|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]].

===September===
* [[September 5]] - [[Aristide Briand]] presents his plan of the ''United States of Europe''
* [[September 7]] - Steamboat ''[[Kuru accident|Kuru]]'' sinks in [[Näsijärvi]], [[Tampere]], [[Finland]] - 136 drowned
* [[September 17]] - Coup ousts [[Augustinas Voldemaras]] in [[Lithuania]]; new president is [[Antanas Smetona]]

===October===
* [[October 11]] - [[JC Penney]] opens Store #1252 in [[Milford, Delaware]], making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
* [[October 22]] - Government of [[Aristide Briand]] falls in France
* [[October 24]] - [[Great Depression]] begins: [[Wall Street Crash 1929|Black Thursday]] and then [[Wall Street Crash 1929|Black Tuesday]] ([[October 29]]) - The [[New York Stock Exchange]] crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis.

===November===
* [[November 7]] - In [[New York City]], the [[Museum of Modern Art]] opens to the public.
* [[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 cable]]s 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.[http://www.shunpiking.com/ol0103/1929_Tsunami_in_NF.pdf]
* [[November 29]] - US Admiral [[Richard Byrd]] becomes the first person to fly over the [[South Pole]].

===December===
* [[December 2]] - First [[phone booth]]s in [[London]]
* [[December 3]] - [[Great Depression]]: US President [[Herbert Hoover]] announces to [[Congress of the United States|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 [[Economics|economy]].
* [[December 29]] - [[All India Congress]] in [[Lahore]] demands [[India]]n [[independence]]
* [[December 31]] - [[Guy Lombardo]] plays ''[[Auld Lang Syne]]'' for the first time

===Unknown dates===

* [[Third Geneva Convention]]
* The [[Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis]] is proposed.
* Greatest number of fatal [[air safety|civil aircraft crashes]] in US history.
* Civil war in [[Afghanistan]]
* [[Lapua Movement]] in [[Finland]]
* [[Branch Davidian]] sect founded in Los Angeles
* Start of the [[Soviet-Chinese Conflict]]
* [[May]] - [[Wickersham Commission]] began investigation of alcohol prohibition in U.S.
* [[Vladimir Zworykin]] takes out the first patent for colour television.

==Births==
===January-March===
*[[January 3]] - [[Sergio Leone]], Italian director (d. [[1989]])
*[[January 4]] - [[Dr. Thomas Lincoln]], American Informatics Pioneer
*[[January 6]] - [[Babrak Karmal]], third [[President of Afghanistan]] (d. [[1996]])
*[[January 15]] - Rev. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], American civil rights leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1968]])
*[[January 17]] - [[Jacques Plante]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[1986]])
*[[January 20]] - [[Fireball Roberts]], American race car driver (d. [[1964]])
*[[January 23]] - [[John Charles Polanyi]], Canadian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[January 26]] - [[Jules Feiffer]], American cartoonist and writer
*[[January 28]] - [[Acker Bilk]], American jazz clarinetist
*[[January 28]] - [[Claes Oldenbourg]], Swedish sculptor
*[[January 29]] - [[Gastón Suárez]], Bolivian novelist and dramatist (d. [[1984]])
*[[January 31]] - [[Rudolf Mössbauer]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[January 31]] - [[Jean Simmons]], English actress
*[[February 5]] - [[Luc Ferrari]], French composer (d. [[2005]])
*[[February 5]] - [[Fred Sinowatz]], Austrian politician
*[[February 6]] - [[Pierre Brice]], French actor
*[[February 14]] - [[Vic Morrow]], American actor (d. [[1982]])
*[[February 15]] - [[Graham Hill]], English race car driver (d. [[1975]])
*[[February 17]] - [[Chaim Potok]], American rabbi and author (d. [[2002]])
*[[February 17]] - [[Patricia Routledge]], English actress
*[[February 18]] - [[Len Deighton]], British author
*[[February 28]] - [[Hayden Fry]], American football coach
*[[February 28]] - [[Frank Gehry]], Canadian-born architect
*[[March 1]] - [[Georgi Markov]], Bulgarian dissident (d. [[1978]])
*[[March 4]] - [[Bernard Haitink]], Dutch conductor
*[[March 9]] - [[Desmond Hoyte]], [[Prime Minister of Guyana|Prime Minister]] and [[President of Guyana]] (d. [[2002]])
*[[March 17]] - [[Peter L. Berger]], Austrian-born sociologist
*[[March 23]] - Sir [[Roger Bannister]], British runner

===April-June===
* [[April 1]] - [[Milan Kundera]], Czech-born author
* [[April 5]] - [[Ivar Giaever]], Norwegian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[April 6]] - [[André Previn]], German-born pianist, composer, and conductor
* [[April 8]] - [[Walter Berry (opera singer)|Walter Berry]], Austrian bass-baritone (d. [[2000]])
* [[April 10]] - [[Max von Sydow]], Swedish actor
* [[May 4]] - [[Audrey Hepburn]], Anglo-Dutch actress (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 4]] - [[Sydney M. Lamb | Sydney MacDonald Lamb]], American linguist
*[[May 6]] - [[Paul Lauterbur]], American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[May 10]] - [[Antonine Maillet]], Canadian author
* [[May 14]] - [[Gump Worsley]], Canadian hockey player
* [[May 14]] - [[Henry McGee]], English actor
* [[May 21]] - [[Heinz Holliger]], Swiss oboist
* [[May 25]] - [[Beverly Sills]], American soprano
* [[June 1]] - [[Nargis]], Indian actress (d. [[1981]])
* [[June 2]] - [[Norton Juster]], American author and architect
*[[June 3]] - [[Werner Arber]], Swiss microbiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[June 6]] - [[Sunil Dutt]], Indian actor and politician (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 10]] - [[Harald Juhnke]], German entertainer (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 12]] - [[Brigid Brophy]], English author (d. [[1995]])
* [[June 12]] - [[Anne Frank]], German diarist (d. [[1945]])
* [[June 13]] - [[Alan Civil]], English French horn player (d. [[1989]])
* [[June 16]] - [[Ramon Bieri]], American actor (d. [[2001]])
* [[June 17]] - [[Tigran Petrosian]], Russian chess player (d. [[1984]])
* [[June 23]] - [[June Carter Cash]], American singer (d. [[2003]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Milton Glaser]], American graphic designer

===July-September===
*[[July 1]] - [[Gerald Edelman]], American biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[July 2]] - [[Imelda Marcos]], First Lady of the Philippines
* [[July 4]] - [[Bill Tuttle]], baseball player
* [[July 5]] - [[Tony Lock]], English cricketer (d. [[1995]])
* [[July 9]] - King [[Hassan II of Morocco]] (d. [[1999]])
* [[July 11]] - [[Hermann Prey]], German bass-baritone (d. [[1998]])
* [[July 18]] - [[Dick Button]], American figure skater
* [[July 18]] - [[Screamin' Jay Hawkins|Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins]], American musician (d. [[2000]])
* [[July 24]] - [[Oriana Fallaci]], Italian journalist and author
* [[July 25]] - [[Somnath Chatterjee]], Indian politician
* [[July 26]] - [[Alexis Weissenberg]], Bulgarian-French pianist
* [[July 29]] - [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]], wife of [[John F Kennedy]]
* [[August 1]] - [[Hafizullah Amin]], second [[President of Afghanistan]] (d. [[1979]])
* [[August 8]] - [[Ronald Biggs]], British criminal
* [[August 16]] - [[Helmut Rahn]], German footballer (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 16]] - [[Bill Evans]], American jazz pianist (d. [[1980]])
* [[August 24]] - [[Yasser Arafat]], Palestinian leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 26]] - [[Maurice Tempelsman]], Belgian diamond merchant and financier
* [[August 28]] - [[Istvan Kertesz]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1973]])
* [[September 1]] - [[Anne Ramsey]], American actress (d. [[1988]])
* [[September 5]] - [[Bob Newhart]], American comedian and actor
*September 5 - [[Andrian Nikolayev]], cosmonaut (d. [[2004]])
* [[September 6]] - [[Yash Johar]], Indian film producer (d. [[2004]])
* [[September 8]] - [[Christoph von Dohnanyi]], German conductor
* [[September 9]] - [[Claude Nougaro]], French singer (d. [[2004]])
* [[September 15]] - [[Murray Gell-Mann]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[September 20]] - [[Anne Meara]], American comedienne and actress
* [[September 21]] - [[Bernard Williams]], British philosopher (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 25]] - [[Ronnie Barker]], British comedian (d. [[2005]])
* [[September 25]] - [[Barbara Walters]], American journalist
* [[September 28]] - [[ Lata Mangeshkar]], Indian playback singer

===October-December===
* [[October 14]] - [[Yvon Durelle]], Canadian boxer
* [[October 22]] - [[Lev Yashin]], Soviet footballer (d. [[1990]])
* [[October 24]] - [[George Crumb]], American composer
*[[October 24]] - [[Yordan Radichkov]], Bulgarian writer and playwright (d. [[2004]])
* [[November 2]] - [[Muhammad Rafiq Tarar]], [[President of Pakistan]]
*[[November 2]] - [[Richard E. Taylor]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[November 4]] - [[Doris Roberts]], American actress
* [[November 7]] - [[Eric R. Kandel]], Austrian-born neuroscientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[November 8]] - [[Lal Krishna Advani]], Indian politician
* [[November 9]] - [[Imre Kertesz]], Hungarian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[November 11]] - [[LaVern Baker]], American singer (d. [[1997]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Grace Kelly|Grace Patricia Kelly]], American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. [[1982]])
* [[November 19]] - [[Norman Cantor]], Canadian medieval scholar (d. [[2004]])
* [[November 30]] - [[Dick Clark (entertainer)|Dick Clark]], American television entertainer
* [[December 6]] - [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]], German-born conductor
* [[December 9]] - [[Bob Hawke]], twenty-third [[Prime Minister of Australia]]
* [[December 16]] - [[Nicholas Courtney]], British actor
* [[December 16]] - [[James Moore]], British author
* [[December 17]] - [[Jacqueline Hill]], British actress (d. [[1993]])
* [[December 23]] - [[Chet Baker]], American jazz musician (d. [[1988]])
* [[December 28]] - [[Terry Sawchuk]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[1970]])
* [[December 28]] - [[Brian Redhead]], English journalist and broadcaster (d. [[1994]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 5]] - [[Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov]], Grand Duke of Russia (b. [[1856]])
* [[January 13]] - [[Wyatt Earp]], American gunfighter (b. [[1848]])
* [[January 30]] - [[La Goulue]], French dancer (b. [[1866]])
* [[February 8]] - [[Maria Christina of Austria]], Queen Regent of Spain (b. [[1858]])
* [[February 12]] - [[Lillie Langtry]], British singer and actress (b. [[1853]])
* [[February 14]] - [[Tom Burke]], American runner (b. [[1875]])
* [[March 20]] - [[Ferdinand Foch]], French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. [[1851]])
* [[April 4]] - [[Karl Benz]], German automotive pioneer (b. [[1844]])
* [[April 24]] - [[Caroline Rémy]], French feminist (b. [[1855]])
* [[May 21]] - [[Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery| Archibald Primrose]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1847]])
* [[June 8]] - [[Bliss Carman]], Canadian poet (b. [[1861]])
* [[June 11]] - [[William D. Boyce | William Dickson Boyce]], American entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. [[1858]])
* [[June 28]] - [[Edward Carpenter]], English poet (b. [[1844]])
* [[July 15]] - [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], Austrian writer (b. [[1874]])
* [[August]] - [[Mary MacLane]], Canadian feminist writer (b. [[1881]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Thorstein Veblen]], Norwegian-born economist (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Emil Berliner]], German-born inventor (b. [[1851]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Millicent Fawcett]], British suffragist and feminist (b. [[1847]])
* [[August 26]] - Sir [[Ernest Satow]], British diplomat and scholar in East Asia (b. [[1843]])
* [[August 27]] - [[Herman Potocnik|Herman Potočnik Noordung]], Slovenian rocket engineer (b. [[1892]])
* [[September 12]] - [[Rainis]], Latvian poet and playwright (b. [[1865]])
* [[September 23]] - [[Richard Adolf Zsigmondy]], Austrian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1865]])
* [[October 1]] - [[Antoine Bourdelle]], French sculptor (b. [[1861]])
* [[October 3]] - [[Jeanne Eagels]], American actress (b. [[1890]])
* [[October 3]] - [[Gustav Stresemann]], [[Chancellor of Germany]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[October 28]] - [[Bernhard von Bülow]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1849]])
* [[November 24]] - [[Georges Clemenceau]], [[Premier of France]] (b. [[1841]])
* [[December 10]] - [[Harry Crosby]], American publisher and poet (b. [[1898]])
* [[December 20]] - [[Émile Loubet]], 7th [[President of France]] (b. [[1838]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Wilhelm Maybach]], German automobile designer (b. [[1846]])

==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics]] - [[Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Arthur Harden]], [[Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Christiaan Eijkman]], Sir [[Frederick Gowland Hopkins]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Thomas Mann]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - [[Frank Kellogg]]



==External links==
*About.com: [http://mutualfunds.about.com/od/1929marketcrash/ 1929 Stock Market Crash]
*[http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929.htm Stock Market Crash of 1929]-Learn about the disastrous crash that lead to the Great Depression

[[Category:1929]]


Wiki Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia]

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		+	'''August 30:''' Immortal sorcerer of the Brotherhood of the Beast Lang Fu performs a ceremony at Peral Beach in just outside San Francisco, summoning Mother Hydra. (''Day of the Beast'', [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Keith_Herber Keith Herber])
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		+	'''September 19:''' The highest ranking members of the Brotherhood of the Beast, Edward Chandler, Baron Hauptmann and Lang Fu gather at the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt to summon forth the Beast. (''Day of the Beast'', [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Keith_Herber Keith Herber])
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		+	'''December 14:''' Professor Colbridge of the British Museum visits Doctor Henry Armitage at the Orne Library, hoping to gain access to the ''Necronomicon'' to help him translate portions of his own ancient text The Masked Messenger. ("The Faceless Watchers", [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/David_Conyers David Conyers])
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		+	'''December 15:''' Professor Colbridge dies under mysterious circumstances in Room 505 of Hotel Miskatonic, his very face chewed from his skull. ("The Faceless Watchers", [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/David_Conyers David Conyers])
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 * [[October 11]] -  [[JC Penney]] opens Store #1252 in [[Milford, Delaware]], making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
 * [[October 22]] - Government of [[Aristide Briand]] falls in France
-* [[October 24]] - [[Great Depression]] begins: [[Wall Street Crash 1929|Black Thursday]] and then [[Wall Street Crash 1929|Black Tuesday]] ([[October 29]]) - The [[New York Stock Exchange]] crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis.
+* [[October 24, 1929|October 24]] - Great Depression begins: Black Thursday and then Black Tuesday ([[October 29]]) - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis.
 ===November===

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 ===February===
-* [[February 11]] - [[Italy]] and the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] sign the [[Lateran Treaty]]
+* [[February 1, 1929|February 11]] - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
-* [[February 11]] - [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''Dynamo'' premieres in [[New York City|New York]]
+* [[February 11, 1929|February 11]] - Eugene O'Neill's ''Dynamo'' premieres in New York.
-* [[February 14]] - [[St. Valentine's Day Massacre]]: Seven [[gangster]]s rivalling [[Al Capone]] are murdered in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
+* [[February 14, 1929|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 18, 1929|February 18]] - First Academy Awards are announced.
-* [[February 26]] - The [[Grand Teton National Park]] is created.
+* [[February 26, 1929|February 26]] - The Grand Teton National Park is created.
 ===March===

1929 - Revision history

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Tgaitskell: /* February */

Squashua at 03:58, 3 February 2006

PoC at 09:53, 17 January 2006