1929 TIMELINE
Unsorted 1929 Events [Bottom]
January
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06 - |BALKANS| King Aleksandar dissolves parliament; the Vidovdan constitution is suspended; royal dictatorship begins
13 - Wyatt Earp dies in his sleep
14 - Gershwin's musical Strike up the Band opens in New York
15 - Birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
21 - |BALKANS| All Yugoslavian political parties banned
24 - Emily Dickenson poems are found that had been hidden for forty years
24 - Einstein reduces physics to one law (for the time being)
February
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01 - |Film ?+| Early talkie
musical The Broadway Melody earns $3 million for M.G.M. It wins the second Academy Award for best
picture; the first musical to do so.
04 - Charles Lindbergh starts Central American air mail service.
14 - The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" gangland hit, ordered by Al Capone against North
Side boss Bugs Moran, leaves 7 corpses on the floor of a north Chicago garage. Moran was not one of them.
17 - Universal Air Live shows first in-flight movie
March
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00 - Jazz ? pianist/composer Fats Waller stages revue Hot
Chocolates at Connie's Inn in Harlem, and later at New York's Hudson Theater; features Waller classics "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Black and Blue".
11 - |DAYTONA BEACH| Major Seagrave shatters
auto speed record at 231.3 miles an hour (372.1 km.) in 450 horse power Golden Arrow
26 - Big drop in New York stocks
26 - New York Stock Exchange sets record volume of 8.2 million shares traded.
April
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01 - Stocks drop again
24 - Ruth Chatterton in Madame X opens in New York
May
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08 - U.S. Navy Lieutenant Apollo Soucek sets airplane altitude record at
39,190 feet.
16 - The first Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards
(Academy Awards) ceremony is held, to honor films for the years
1927 and 1928. The World War I
film Wings wins an Oscar as best picture.
20 - President Hoover appoints the National Commission on Law Observance
and Enforcement to study Prohibition's effect on the rising crime rate.
27 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling barring Hungarian
immigrant Rosika Schwimmer from citizenship for her pacifist ideas. Supreme Court
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a famous dissent, argues that the freedom to hold and speak
unpopular ideas is a key right under the U.S. constitution.
June
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00 - Adolf Hitler ?+ gains prominence by opposing the Young Plan for
the settlement of Germany's reparations debt.
14 - |Indiana| Charley Patton, "The King of the Delta Blues," makes his first records
for Paramount in Richmond.
27 - Bell Laboratories makes first U.S. public demonstration of color
television, in New York. Images are roses and a U.S. flag.
AUGUST
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20 - BBC broadcasts first transmission of inventor J.L. Baird's 30-line
color television.
SEPTEMBER
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03 - Wall Street issues reached an all-time high. With some stocks tripling
in price from the year before.
24 - Lt. Gen. James Doolittle makes the first airplane flight piloted
only by radio-controlled instruments.
OCTOBER
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Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe
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18 - Thomas Wolfe's novel Look Homeward, Angel is published
24 - The U.S. stock market starts its steep downward crash on
"Black Thursday," with 13 million shares sold.
29 - "Black Tuesday," the U.S. stock market seems to have bottomed out,
with 16 million shares sold. A few days of apparent recovery follow, with a slight rebound
in prices.
NOVEMBER
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10 - Count Basie, jazz ? pianist and future bandleader/composer, makes his
first record, "Blue Devil Blues," with Walter Page's Blue Devils, in Kansas City,
Mo., for Vocalion Records.
13 - U.S. stock market prices reach their lowest point for the year.
$30 billion in stock values are wiped out.
18 - Inventor Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates cathode-ray electronic
television receiver developed at RCA; 60 scan lines
28-29 - Richard E. Byrd, U.S. explorer, his pilot Bernt Balchen, A. C.
Mckinley, and Harold June are the first to fly over the South Pole.
DECEMBER
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00 - Yugoslav government bans Slovenian Sokol clubs
00 - New York Museum of Modern Art opens with Cezanne, Gaugin, Seurat,
Van Gogh
17 - Neutrality agreement between USSR and Turkey
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