Today in History for Year 1929

Months in Year 1929: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 267

Jan 1st - Roy Riegels runs 60 yds the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery
Jan 2nd - US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
Jan 3rd - 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres
Jan 3rd - Bradman scores 112 v England at MCG - his 1st Test century
Jan 5th - Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
Jan 6th - Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
Jan 6th - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
Jan 7th - "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
Jan 7th - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
Jan 8th - 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
Jan 8th - CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC
Jan 9th - Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in NYC
Jan 9th - KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
Jan 10th - Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC
Jan 12th - Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
Jan 13th - Humanist Society established, Hollywood Calif
Jan 14th - Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
Jan 17th - Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
Jan 18th - "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin Jan 18th - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
Jan 19th - Acadia National Park, Maine established
Jan 19th - Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec
Jan 20th - 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
Jan 21st - Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London
Jan 25th - Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours
Jan 26th - Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
Jan 29th - Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
Jan 31st - Erich Maria Remarque publishes "Im Westen nichts Neues" in Berlin
Jan 31st - Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
Feb 1st - 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
Feb 3rd - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
Feb 4th - Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
Feb 5th - Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF
Feb 6th - Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night"
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky Feb 8th - KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
Feb 9th - USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
Feb 10th - Bishop Stephen Alencastre, dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu
Feb 11th - Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in NYC
Feb 11th - Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
Feb 12th - Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30)
Feb 13th - Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier
Feb 13th - Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow
Feb 14th - St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
Feb 16th - KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
Feb 18th - The first Academy Awards are announced.
Feb 19th - Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
Feb 20th - American Samoa organizes as territory of US
Feb 20th - Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
Feb 26th - Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
30th US President Calvin Coolidge Feb 27th - Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
Feb 28th - Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
Mar 2nd - Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game
Mar 2nd - Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
Mar 4th - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
Mar 4th - Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
Mar 6th - Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
Mar 8th - US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
Mar 9th - Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
Mar 13th - Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
Mar 16th - WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
Mar 17th - General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
Mar 17th - Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
Mar 18th - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad
Mar 22nd - 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
31st US President Herbert Hoover Mar 22nd - KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
Mar 22nd - USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
Mar 23rd - 1st telephone installed in White House
Mar 27th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
Mar 27th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
Mar 28th - Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
Mar 29th - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games
Apr 1st - Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
Apr 1st - Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
Apr 1st - Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
Apr 1st - Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film
Apr 1st - Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
Apr 3rd - Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
Apr 3rd - RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
Apr 4th - "New Moon" musical opens in London
Apr 4th - 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
Apr 5th - Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
Apr 8th - Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
Apr 11th - KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
Apr 11th - Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
Apr 16th - Cleve Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat
Apr 16th - NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers
Apr 18th - Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
Apr 19th - 33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6
Apr 24th - 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
Apr 24th - Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
Apr 26th - 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
Apr 30th - Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria
May 1st - Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
May 1st - Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
May 1st - Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
May 3rd - Prussia bans anti-fascists
May 4th - Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
May 6th - AL announces it will discontinue MVP award
May 6th - NY to SF footrace begins
May 8th - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 691

Jan 1st - Holling Gustav Vapor, character on Northern Exposure
Jan 2nd - Art Prysock, jazz musician
Jan 3rd - Marilyn Lloyd, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
Jan 3rd - Sergio Leone, Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
Jan 3rd - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
Jan 4th - Amitai W Etzioni, US sociologist (Active Society)
Jan 4th - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist
Jan 4th - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist, sculptor
Jan 5th - Wilbert Harrison, singer
Jan 6th - Wilbert Harrison, R & B singer (Kansas City)
Jan 6th - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
Jan 7th - Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)
Jan 7th - Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952)
Jan 7th - Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba)
Jan 8th - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
Jan 9th - Heiner Muller, dramatist
Jan 9th - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
Jan 9th - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
Jan 10th - Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
Jan 11th - Nicoletta Orsomando
Actor Rod Taylor (Jan 11th) Jan 11th - Rod Taylor, Sydney, Australian actor (Bearcats, Time Machine)
Jan 11th - Wanda Wilkomirska, Warsaw, Poland, violinist
Jan 12th - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher
Jan 12th - Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottis-born American philosopher
Jan 13th - Joseph Anthony Pass, guitarist
Jan 13th - Wim Bary, Dutch actor/theater director (Nice Boys)
Jan 14th - Aleksander Petrovic, film director
Jan 14th - Billy Walker, Ralls Tx, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
Jan 15th - "Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music
Jan 15th - Eva Badura-Skoda, composer
Jan 15th - Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964)
Jan 16th - Allard Lowenstein, radical (Students for Democratic Action)
Jan 16th - Francesco Scavullo, Staten Island NY, celebrity photographer
Jan 16th - Tage Nielsen, composer
Jan 17th - Jacques "Jake the Snake" Plante, Quebec, NHL goaltender (#1)
Clergyman and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, (Jan 15th) Jan 19th - Ulu Grosbard, Belgium, actor (Straight Time, Georgia, Falling in Love)
Jan 20th - Arte Johnson, Chicago Ill, comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie)
Jan 20th - Bob Denard, French mercenary
Jan 22nd - Rita Gillespie, TV director
Jan 23rd - Ian Thomson, cricketer (England seam bowler v South Africa 1964-65)
Jan 23rd - John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986)
Jan 23rd - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
Jan 26th - Jules Feiffer, NYC, cartoonist (Passionella)/author (Little Murders)
Jan 26th - M R Turner, publisher
Jan 26th - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
Jan 27th - Ingrid Thulin, Solleftea Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned)
Jan 27th - Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC
Jan 27th - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
Jan 28th - Acker Bilk, singer (Stranger on the Shore)
Jan 28th - Claes Oldenburg, Stockholm Sweden, US pop artist (Alphabet/Good Humor)
Jan 28th - Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist
Jan 29th - Elio Petri, Italy, director (Property is no theft)
Jan 29th - William McMillan, US, rapid pistol (Olympic-gold-1960) [or Jul 3]
Jan 30th - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (celebrated South African off-spinner 1949-60)
Jan 30th - Viscount Long
Jan 30th - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
Jan 31st - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
Jan 31st - Jean Simmons, London, England, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls)
Feb 2nd - Reiner Bredemeyer, composer
Feb 3rd - Russell Arms, Berkeley California, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
Feb 3rd - Val Doonican, Irish singer/entertainer
Feb 3rd - Ken Shipp, American football coach
Feb 4th - Mary Joan Nielubowicz, rear admiral/nurse
Feb 4th - Paul Burlison, rocker
Feb 4th - Jerry Adler, American actor
Feb 5th - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
Feb 5th - Al Worthington, baseball player
Feb 6th - Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skier (Olympic-gold-1956/60/64), (d. 2012)
Feb 6th - Pierre Brice, French actor
Feb 6th - Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
Feb 9th - Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
Feb 9th - James Mulcro Drew, composer
Feb 9th - Lennox Butler, cricketer (1 Test WI v Aust 1955, 16 & 2-151)
Feb 9th - Willem Kersters, Flemish composer (Parwati, Gospel Song)
Feb 9th - Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
Feb 10th - Hallgeir Brenden, Norway, 15K/18K cross country (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
Feb 10th - Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador (in Netherlands)
Feb 10th - Jerry Goldsmith, pianist/composer (Twilight Zone)
Feb 10th - Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
Feb 11th - Leonard Gregory Kastle, composer
Feb 12th - Agustin Gonzalez Acilu, composer
Feb 13th - Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama
Feb 14th - Matthew G Martinez, (Rep-D-CA, 1982- )
Feb 14th - Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)
Feb 15th - Countess of Dysart
Feb 15th - Gerald Harper, broadcaster/actor (Tunes of Glory, Extra Day)
Feb 15th - Graham Hill, London, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ)
Feb 15th - James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
Feb 16th - Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel)
Feb 16th - Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (d. 1980)
Feb 17th - Chaim Potok, NYC, novelist (Promise)
Feb 17th - Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player
Feb 18th - Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author (Ipcress File, Fighter)
Feb 18th - André Mathieu, Quebec composer (d. 1968)
Feb 19th - Jacques Deray, French film director (d. 2003)
Feb 20th - Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
Feb 20th - Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
Feb 21st - James Beck, English actor (d. 1973)
Feb 22nd - Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)
Feb 22nd - Ryne Duren, near-sighted pitcher (NY Yankees)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

Mar 29th - Actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (17) weds her dancing partner Jack Pepper (26)
May 1st - American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton
Jun 3rd - Actor and naval officer of World War II Douglas Fairbanks Jr (19) weds actress Joan Crawford (24) at St. Malachy in New York City
Jul 22nd - American Playwright and 1936 winner Nobel prize for literature Eugene O'Neill (40) marries 3rd wife actress Carlotta Monterey (40)

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

Jul 3rd - American Playwright and 1936 winner Nobel prize for literature Eugene O'Neill divorces 2nd wife novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 114

Jan 2nd - Erich Wichman[n], Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at 38
Jan 6th - Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72
Jan 7th - Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
Jan 9th - Heiner Muller, writer, dies
Jan 11th - Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28
Jan 13th - Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80
Jan 13th - H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
Jan 14th - Cornelis W Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74
Jan 19th - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
Jan 24th - Willem Royaards, theater directeor (Adam in Ballingschap), dies
Jan 30th - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
Feb 1st - August Otto Halm, composer, dies at 59
Feb 3rd - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
Feb 5th - Siegfried Ochs, composer, dies at 70
Feb 8th - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
Feb 12th - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Ger para-psychologist, dies at 66
Feb 12th - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
Feb 14th - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
Feb 17th - John Read, cricketer (batted in 17 Tests for Eng for 463 runs), dies
OK Corral Sheriff Wyatt Earp (Jan 13th) Feb 24th - Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
Feb 27th - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer, dies at 65
Feb 28th - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54
Feb 28th - John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65
Mar 1st - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
Mar 5th - David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
Mar 12th - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
Mar 15th - Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24
Mar 20th - Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77
Mar 22nd - Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64
Mar 26th - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
Mar 27th - Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
Mar 28th - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
Apr 4th - Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84
Apr 10th - Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies at 36
Apr 15th - Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74
Apr 16th - Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57
Apr 22nd - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86
Apr 22nd - Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
Apr 23rd - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
May 4th - Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
Gangster Al Capone (May 7th) May 7th - Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 7th - John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 7th - Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 11th - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
May 16th - Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
May 21st - V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
Jun 2nd - Charles Coventry, cricketer (13 runs in 2 Tests Eng v S Af 1889), dies
Jun 4th - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
Jun 7th - J E P McMaster, cricketer (Eng v S Af Test 1889 (out for 0), dies
Jun 8th - Bliss Carman, poet, dies
Jun 9th - Lewis Bennison, dies
Jun 11th - Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68
Jun 16th - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
Jun 25th - Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies
Jun 28th - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
Jul 2nd - Gladys Brockwell, actress (Oliver Twist), dies at 34
Jul 4th - Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70
Jul 5th - Henry Lincoln Johnson, Member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), first American to receive the Croix de guerre (b. 1897)
Jul 11th - Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
Jul 12th - Robert Henri, US painter (The Eight), dies at 63
Jul 15th - Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
Jul 22nd - Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
Jul 22nd - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76
Aug 1st - Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian captain pre-WWI), dies
Aug 2nd - Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
Aug 3rd - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
Aug 3rd - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
Aug 5th - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847)
Aug 9th - Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
Aug 10th - Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75
Aug 10th - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
Aug 16th - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70
Aug 19th - Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
Aug 22nd - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74
Aug 23rd - Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
Aug 25th - Frederick Burton, cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies
Aug 27th - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
Sep 12th - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
Sep 15th - Sara Amsel, Indon/Dutch actress/wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58
Sep 18th - Hermann Gradener, composer, dies at 85
Sep 23rd - Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
Sep 25th - Miller Huggins, manager (NY Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49
Sep 29th - Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
Sep 30th - Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China), dies
Oct 1st - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
Oct 3rd - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
Oct 3rd - Jeanne Eagels, actress (The Letter), dies at 35
Oct 4th - John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37
Oct 12th - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
Oct 20th - Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76
Oct 21st - Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies
Oct 23rd - Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
Oct 24th - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74
Oct 25th - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (two Tests for England 1877), dies
Oct 26th - Arno Holz, writer, dies at 66
Oct 28th - Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36
Oct 28th - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
Oct 31st - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
Nov 3rd - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
Nov 6th - Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62