1929 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1929?
- January 6, 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country’s constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
- January 17, 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- February 10, 1929 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 11, 1929 – Fascist Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
- April 3, 1929 – RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
- April 8, 1929 – Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
- May 16, 1929 – In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
- June 7, 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
- July 23, 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- August 3, 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic “World Teacher”, shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
- August 8, 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
- August 11, 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
- August 24, 1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
- September 25, 1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
- October 3, 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, “Land of the South Slavs”.
- October 23, 1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
- October 24, 1929 – “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
- October 28, 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
- November 18, 1929 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
- November 29, 1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
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