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1929
Events * 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. * 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. Art, Culture & Fashion * 1929 in film o January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors. o May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed o The Broadway Melody * 1929 in literature o The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner * 1929 in music o December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time * 1929 in sports o February 1 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds in the "clean and jerk" method. * 1929 in television o 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. o 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 - GŸnter Kunert, writer and lyricist * March 16 - Nadja Tiller, actress * March 23 - Roger Bannister, athlete, first "Miracle Mile" * April 1 - Milan Kundera, author * April 6 - AndrŽ 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 27 - Herman Poto?nik 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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