Major Events
- Feb 11 Vatican City, the world's smallest country, is made an enclave of Rome
- Feb 14 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, seven gangsters are killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders
- Jun 3 Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.
- Jun 7 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
- Jun 25 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
- Oct 24 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash of 1929, Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 12.8%
- Oct 29 "Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression"
- Dec 2 First skull of Peking man found in the caves of Zhoukoudian, 50 km outside of Peking, China. Later dated roughly 750,000 years old. [1]
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1929 in Film & TV
- May 16 1st Academy Awards: "Wings", Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor win
1929 in Sport
- Jan 3 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman follows up a 1st innings of 79 to score 112 in 3rd Test v England in Melbourne; his 1st of 29 Test centuries
- Apr 16 New York Yankees become first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order
- Aug 7 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the second time in 13-1 win v Philadelphia A's
- Aug 11 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes first MLB player to hit 500 home runs (off Willis Hudlin) in 6-5 loss to Indians at League Park, Cleveland
Martin Luther King Jr.
Joe Gallo
Anne Frank
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Yasser Arafat
Whitey Bulger
Audrey Hepburn
Vera Miles
Barbara Walters
Grace Kelly
Dick Clark
Christopher Plummer
Jacques Brel
June Carter Cash
Berry Gordy
Chet Baker
Jacques Plante
Graham Hill
Roger Bannister
Al Davis
Arnold Palmer
Terry SawchukMore People Born in 1929
Wyatt Earp
Karl Benz
Archibald Primrose
Gustav Stresemann
Elijah McCoy
Georges ClémenceauMore 1929 Deaths
Articles About 1929
Silence is Golden At The First Oscars
The first Academy Awards ceremony took place on this day before just 250 guests. All the movies nominated for what would become known as an Oscar were silentMay 16
Another Panic, Another Market Crash
Wall Street was gripped by panic on this day. It was not the first time nor the last. Anything from railways to a pandemic can cause a crash, it seems.October 24
Famous Weddings in 1929
- Jan 28 Mobster Bugsy Siegel (23) weds childhood sweetheart Esta Krakower
- Jan 30 Mitford sister Diana Mitford (18) marries Irish peer Bryan Walter Guinness (23) in the British society wedding of the year
- Mar 29 American actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (17) weds her dancing partner Jack Pepper (26); divorce in 1931
Famous Divorces in 1929
- Jul 3 American Playwright Eugene O'Neill divorces second wife novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage
- Dec 9 Businessman Howard Hughes divorces 1st wife Ella Rice after 4 years of marriage
More 1929 Weddings
Mary Pickford
Owen D. Young
Warner Baxter
Herbert Hoover
Joseph Stalin
Ramsay MacDonald