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 29 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed
January 31 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
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 20 - American Samoa becomes organized as a territory of the United States
February 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.
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 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.
October 11 - JC Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
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 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.
November 29 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
December 3 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to 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.
Change of US presidency from Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) to Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
The Museum of Modern Art is founded
Third Geneva Convention
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is proposed.

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1929 in film
- January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
- May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed
- The Broadway Melody
1929 in literature
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1929 in music
- December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time
1929 in sports
- February 1 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds in the "clean and jerk" method.
1929 in television
- June 27 - The first public demonstration of a mechanical color television, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are of a bouquet of roses and an American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington.
- Milton Berle appears in an experimental television broadcast.

Births

January 3 - Sergio Leone, director (+ 1989)
January 26 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer
January 28 - Acker Bilk, musician
January 28 - Claes Oldenbourg, artist
January 31 - Jean Simmons, actress
January 15 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader (+ 1968)
January 17 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey star
February 5 - Fred Sinowatz, politician
February 6 - Pierre Brice, actor
February 11 - Leonard Gregory Kastle, composer.
February 14 - Vic Morrow, actor (+ 1982)
February 15 - Graham Hill, Formula One racer (+ 1975)
February 17 - Chaim Potok, author (+ 2002)
February 17 - Patricia Routledge, actress
February 18 - Len Deighton, author
February 18 - Hayden Fry, college football coach
March 1 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (+ 1978)
March 6 - G�nter Kunert, writer and lyricist
March 16 - Nadja Tiller, actress
March 23 - Roger Bannister, athlete, first "Miracle Mile"
April 1 - Milan Kundera, author
April 6 - Andr� Previn, composer, conductor
May 4 - Audrey Hepburn, actress
May 14 - Gump Worsley, Hockey Hall of Famer
May 16 - Friedrich Nowottny, journalist
May 23 - Julian Euell, jazz musician
May 25 - Beverly Sills, soprano
June 2 - Norton Juster, author and architect
June 12 - Anne Frank, German diarist of Jewish descent
July 2 - Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines
July 24 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author
August 24 - Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority
September 5 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
October 22 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper
October 24 - George Crumb, composer
December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
Frank Gehry, Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
Sydney M. Lamb, American linguist, father of stratificational grammar
Babrak Karmal, politician
Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan

Deaths

January 5 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia
January 13 - Wyatt Earp, Western legend
February 8 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain
February 12 - Lily Langtry, singer, actress
March 6 - David Buick, automobile pioneer
April 4 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer
June 8 - Bliss Carman, poet
August 3 - Thorstein Veblen, economist
August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics
October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
December 10 - Harry Crosby, publisher, poet

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
Chemistry - Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
Medicine - Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Literature - Thomas Mann
Peace - Frank Billings Kellogg

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