Today in History for May 1929

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 29 of 29

1st - Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1st - Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1st - Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
3rd - Prussia bans anti-fascists
4th - Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
6th - AL announces it will discontinue MVP award
6th - NY to SF footrace begins
8th - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
8th - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
9th - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates
9th - WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
10th - 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr Freeland wins in 2:01.6
10th - 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane
11th - 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
11th - Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx
12th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
15th - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
16th - 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
16th - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
18th - 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8
18th - Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
19th - Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
19th - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government
21st - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
21st - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
24th - Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
27th - 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
28th - 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
31st - Atlantic City Convention Center opens

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 64 of 64

1st - Sonny James, [James Loden], Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love)
1st - Sonny Ramadhin, cricket spin bowler (great WI)
2nd - Edward Levy Irving, composer
2nd - Luc Ferrari, composer
2nd - Sydney Gedye, cricketer (opening batsman in four Tests for NZ 1964)
2nd - Link Wray, American rock guitarist (d. 2005)
3rd - Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
3rd - Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist
4th - Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady), (d. 1993)
4th - Sidney Lamb, American linguist
5th - John S Ragin, Newark NJ, actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME)
6th - John Polk Allen, Carnegie Oklahoma, CEO (Biosphere 2)
6th - John Taylor, bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
6th - Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology)
7th - Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
7th - Sally L Smith, educator/founder (Lab School of Wash)
7th - Babe Parilli, American football player
8th - V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of Justice (CDA)
8th - Claude Castonguay, Quebec politician
Actress Audrey Hepburn (4th) 9th - Anthony Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal
9th - Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
10th - Brian Corby, CEO (Prudential)
10th - Marquess of Downshire
11th - Edward Anson, British vice-admiral
12th - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player
12th - Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia
14th - Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
14th - Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
14th - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
14th - Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
15th - Jack Flavell, cricketer (England pace bowler in 4 Tests 1961-64)
16th - Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters), (d. 2012)
16th - John Conyers Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1965- )
16th - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer
16th - Claude Morin, French Canadian politician
17th - Raymond Hide, geophysicist
18th - Kai Winding, Denmark, American Jazz composer, (d. 1983)
18th - Johan N Block, aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland)
18th - Lord St John of Fawsley
18th - Roger Matton, composer
19th - Harvey Cox, US theologist (Secular City)
19th - Michael Adamis, composer
19th - John Stroger Chicago politician
20th - Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
21st - Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
21st - Paul Winslow, cricketer (big-hitter for South Africa, 108 v England 1955)
21st - Robert Welch, designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)
22nd - Asher Ben-Yohanan, composer
23rd - Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- )
23rd - Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness)
25th - Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Bkln NY, soprano
25th - David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission
25th - Warren Frost, American actor
26th - Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea)
27th - Donald Howard Keats, composer
28th - Leslie Wight, cricketer (one Test WI v India 1953, scored 21)
28th - Patrick McNair-Wilson, MP
29th - Anthony Grant, British MP
29th - Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
29th - Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
30th - Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
31st - Aladar Zoltan, composer
31st - Elaine Stewart, Montclair NJ, actress (Take the High Ground)
31st - Neil Shaw, British CEO (Tate & Lyle)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

1st - American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

4th - Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
7th - Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
7th - John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
7th - Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
11th - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
16th - Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
21st - V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies