1929 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1929?
- January 17, 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- January 31, 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
- February 10, 1929 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 26, 1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
- April 6, 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- May 14, 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
- May 15, 1929 – A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
- May 31, 1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, “The Karnival Kid”, is released.
- June 7, 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
- August 8, 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
- August 16, 1929 – The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
- August 23, 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
- 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 7, 1929 – Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
- 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 11, 1929 – JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
- October 24, 1929 – “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
- November 7, 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
- 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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