Notable Historical Events - 1929
1929 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Roy Riegels runs 60 yds the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery |
Jan 2 |
US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls |
Jan 3 |
27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres |
Jan 3 |
Bradman scores 112 v England at MCG - his 1st Test century |
Jan 5 |
Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia |
Jan 6 |
Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia |
Jan 6 |
Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people. |
Jan 7 |
"Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres |
Jan 7 |
"Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears |
Jan 8 |
1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies |
Jan 8 |
CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC |
Jan 9 |
Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in NYC |
Jan 9 |
KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions |
Jan 10 |
Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC |
Jan 12 |
Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana |
Jan 13 |
Humanist Society established, Hollywood, California |
Jan 14 |
Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign |
Jan 17 |
Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater" |
Jan 18 |
"NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio |
Jan 18 |
Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo |
Jan 19 |
Acadia National Park, Maine established |
Jan 19 |
Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec |
Jan 20 |
1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona" |
Jan 21 |
Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London |
Jan 25 |
Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours |
Jan 26 |
Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence |
Jan 29 |
Seeing Eye Guide Dog organization forms in USA |
Jan 31 |
Erich Maria Remarque publishes "Im Westen nichts Neues" in Berlin |
Jan 31 |
Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey |
Feb 1 |
1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs |
Feb 3 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam |
Feb 4 |
Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide |
Feb 5 |
Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF |
Feb 6 |
Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night" |
Feb 8 |
KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions |
Feb 9 |
USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact |
Feb 10 |
Bishop Stephen Alencastre, dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu |
Feb 11 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in NYC |
Feb 11 |
Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome |
Feb 12 |
Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30) |
Feb 13 |
Cruiser Act, USA, approves the construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier |
Feb 13 |
Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow |
Feb 14 |
St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders |
Feb 16 |
KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions |
Feb 18 |
The first Academy Awards are announced. |
Feb 19 |
Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY |
Feb 20 |
American Samoa organizes as territory of US |
Feb 20 |
Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field |
Feb 26 |
US Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park |
Feb 27 |
Turkey signs Litvinov-pact |
Feb 28 |
Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home |
Mar 2 |
Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game |
Mar 2 |
Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals |
Mar 4 |
Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP |
Mar 4 |
Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st US President |
Mar 6 |
Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty |
Mar 8 |
US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia |
Mar 9 |
Marcel Pagnol's "Marius" premieres in Paris |
Mar 13 |
Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket century |
Mar 16 |
WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions |
Mar 17 |
General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel |
Mar 17 |
Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid |
Mar 18 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon" premieres in Leningrad |
Mar 22 |
66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes |
Mar 22 |
KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions |
Mar 22 |
USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor |
Mar 23 |
1st telephone installed in White House |
Mar 27 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
Mar 27 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
Mar 28 |
Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador |
Mar 29 |
Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games |
Apr 1 |
Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls |
Apr 1 |
Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens |
Apr 1 |
Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo |
Apr 1 |
Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou" 24-minute film |
Apr 1 |
Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate |
Apr 3 |
Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact |
Apr 3 |
RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line. |
Apr 4 |
"New Moon" musical opens in London |
Apr 4 |
1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held |
Apr 5 |
Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact |
Apr 8 |
Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. |
Apr 11 |
KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions |
Apr 11 |
Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam |
Apr 16 |
Cleve Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat |
Apr 16 |
NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers |
Apr 18 |
Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire |
Apr 19 |
33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6 |
Apr 24 |
1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off |
Apr 24 |
Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark |
Apr 26 |
1st non-stop England to India flight lands |
Apr 30 |
Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria |
May 1 |
Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds |
May 1 |
Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen |
May 1 |
Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin |
May 2 |
Billie Holiday (14) and her mother are arrested for prostitution following a raid of a brothel in Harlem |
May 3 |
Prussia bans anti-fascists |
May 4 |
Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9 |
May 6 |
AL announces it will discontinue MVP award |
May 6 |
NY to SF footrace begins |
May 8 |
Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway |
May 8 |
NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates, 11-0 |
May 9 |
WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions |
May 10 |
55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr Freeland wins in 2:01.6 |
May 10 |
64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane |
May 11 |
1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week) |
May 11 |
Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx |
May 12 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) |
May 15 |
Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) |
May 16 |
1st Academy Awards - "Wings", Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins |
May 18 |
55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8 |
May 18 |
Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs) |
May 19 |
Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death |
May 19 |
General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government |
May 21 |
Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC |
May 21 |
Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris |
May 24 |
Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings |
May 27 |
2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England |
May 28 |
1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC) |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Ray Keech wins in 5:07:25.458 (157.048 km/h) |
May 31 |
Atlantic City Convention Center opens |
Jun 3 |
1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light) |
Jun 3 |
Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area resolving border dispute |
Jun 4 |
George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY) |
Jun 5 |
Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain |
Jun 7 |
Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor) |
Jun 7 |
Vatican City becomes a sovereign state |
Jun 8 |
61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8 |
Jun 8 |
Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier |
Jun 9 |
Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free |
Jun 14 |
Prussia & Vatican sign Concord |
Jun 15 |
1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch |
Jun 16 |
Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days) |
Jun 22 |
Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader |
Jun 25 |
President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
Jun 26 |
ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union) |
Jun 27 |
1st color TV demo (NYC) |
Jun 27 |
President Paul Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I |
Jun 29 |
1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca |
Jun 29 |
31.1°C (88°F) highest temperature on this day in De Bilt |
Jun 29 |
Mexico & Vatican sign Concord |
Jun 30 |
33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY |
Jul 1 |
US Immigration law of 1924 in effect |
Jul 1 |
US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye" |
Jul 3 |
Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber |
Jul 4 |
AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down |
Jul 5 |
42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-1 6-2) |
Jul 5 |
WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down |
Jul 6 |
St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6 |
Jul 6 |
49th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Jean Borotra (6-4 6-3 6-4) |
Jul 7 |
Romania & Vatican sign concord |
Jul 10 |
In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning |
Jul 10 |
US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency |
Jul 15 |
1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca |
Jul 17 |
USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China |
Jul 23 |
The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. |
Jul 24 |
NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde |
Jul 24 |
President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war |
Jul 27 |
Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished |
Jul 28 |
Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich) |
Jul 28 |
24th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2) |
Jul 29 |
Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France |
Jul 31 |
Aristide Briand becomes premier of France |
Aug 2 |
Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR |
Aug 4 |
60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich |
Aug 4 |
Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6 |
Aug 4 |
Jones Beach in NY opens |
Aug 7 |
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government |
Aug 7 |
Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games |
Aug 7 |
Jo Baer (born Josephine Kleinberg), Seattle USA, American artist |
Aug 8 |
German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight |
Aug 8 |
Salem Oregon airport dedicated |
Aug 10 |
Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win |
Aug 11 |
Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve) |
Aug 11 |
Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty |
Aug 11 |
Russian-Chinese border fights |
Aug 14 |
Jewish Agency for Palestine forms |
Aug 20 |
1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed |
Aug 21 |
Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town |
Aug 23 |
Arabs attack Jews in Israel |
Aug 24 |
43rd US Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (6-4 6-2) |
Aug 24 |
Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem |
Aug 24 |
Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty |
Aug 25 |
Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage |
Aug 26 |
First US roller coaster built |
Aug 28 |
Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred |
Aug 29 |
German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight |
Aug 29 |
Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight |
Sep 2 |
Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros |
Sep 2 |
WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network |
Sep 3 |
Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929. |
Sep 5 |
French premier A Briand requests a US of Europe |
Sep 11 |
SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system |
Sep 14 |
49th US Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (3-6 6-3 4-6 6-2 6-4) |
Sep 14 |
A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox |
Sep 16 |
Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed |
Sep 17 |
British troops begin withdrawal from occupied Germany |
Sep 18 |
Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs |
Sep 18 |
Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC |
Sep 19 |
Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out |
Sep 21 |
1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling & 1st reception by Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton |
Sep 24 |
Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight |
Sep 24 |
Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0 |
Sep 25 |
Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam |
Sep 26 |
John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria |
Sep 28 |
1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-U of Alberta) |
Sep 30 |
1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) |
Oct 3 |
British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR |
Oct 3 |
Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister |
Oct 3 |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia |
Oct 6 |
12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles |
Oct 7 |
Ramsay MacDonald is first British premier to address US Congress |
Oct 8 |
A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs |
Oct 8 |
Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi |
Oct 9 |
G Kaufman & R Lardner's musical "June Moon" premieres in NYC |
Oct 11 |
Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle" premieres in London |
Oct 11 |
JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states. |
Oct 12 |
Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning |
Oct 14 |
Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series |
Oct 14 |
Philadelphia A's set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning |
Oct 18 |
Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. |
Oct 20 |
Bayshore Highway opens (SF) |
Oct 22 |
French government of Briand falls |
Oct 22 |
James H Scullin forms Australia government |
Oct 24 |
"Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8% |
Oct 24 |
Rudy Vallee's "The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour" begins broadcasting on NBC radio |
Oct 24 |
Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails |
Oct 25 |
Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe |
Oct 28 |
Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64 |
Oct 29 |
"Black Tuesday" Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression" |
Oct 30 |
The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany. |
Nov 1 |
Lundy Island, part of British Isles, issue its own stamps |
Nov 4 |
John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square" premieres in NYC |
Nov 4 |
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains, the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica |
Nov 7 |
NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building |
Nov 8 |
Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38" premieres in Paris |
Nov 17 |
Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico |
Nov 17 |
Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo |
Nov 18 |
Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope" |
Nov 18 |
Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places |
Nov 18 |
Stalin routes troops to Manchuria |
Nov 20 |
First broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio |
Nov 20 |
Salvador Dali's first one-man show |
Nov 22 |
Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG |
Nov 25 |
Belgian government of Jaspar falls |
Nov 28 |
Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight |
Nov 28 |
Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chic Cards vs Bears (NFL record) |
Nov 29 |
Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong) |
Nov 30 |
17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3 |
Dec 1 |
Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe |
Dec 2 |
1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien |
Dec 3 |
Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak |
Dec 5 |
1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC) |
Dec 6 |
Turkey introduces female suffrage |
Dec 7 |
Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins |
Dec 7 |
Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament |
Dec 10 |
Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st |
Dec 14 |
Alexander Zaimis elected president of Greece |
Dec 15 |
Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro |
Dec 16 |
Chic Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1 |
Dec 20 |
Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager |
Dec 20 |
Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park |
Dec 21 |
1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx) |
Dec 25 |
Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390 |
Dec 29 |
Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders |
Dec 30 |
Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC |
Dec 30 |
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates |
Dec 31 |
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri |
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