1929: Encyclopedia II - 1929 - Events

1929 - Events

1929 - 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 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 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 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.

1929 - February

• February 11 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty
• February 11 - Eugene O'Neill's Dynamo premieres in New York
• 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 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.

1929 - 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.

1929 - May

• 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 31 - British general election returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.

1929 - June

• June 7 - In Britain Tories concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority
• 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

1929 - 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).

1929 - August

• 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.

1929 - September

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

1929 - 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: Black Thursday and then Black Tuesday (October 29) - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis.

1929 - 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 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.

1929 - December

• December 2 - First phone booths 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

1929 - Unknown dates

• Third Geneva Convention
• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is proposed.
• Greatest number of fatal 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.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Events", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki