1929

Years: 1926 1927 1928 - 1929 - 1930 1931 1932
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1929 in aviation 1929 in film 1929 in literature 1929 in music 1929 in science 1929 in sports 1929 state leaders 1929 in Canada

Events

January 2 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
January 9 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).
January 10 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé makes his debute. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages and loved across the world.
January 17 - Popeye, a comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar makes his debut.
January 18 - Lev Trotsky expelled from Soviet Union; he moves to Turkey January 29 and applies for sanctuary in France and Germany
January 29 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed
February 11 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty
February 11 - Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo" premieres in New York
February 14 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters rivalling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
February 18 - First Academy Awards are announced
February 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.
March 3 - Revolt attempt of Jesus Aguirre fails in Mexico
May 13 - National Crime Syndicate founded in Atlantic City
May 31 - British general election returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.

June 7 - In Britain Tories concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority
June 8 - Ramsay MacDonald founds new Labour government
July 5 - Scotland Yard seizes 12 nude paintings of D.H. Lawrence from the Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency
July 24 - French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by Aristide Briand
July 24 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
August 8 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).
August 19 - The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
September 5 - Aristide Briand presents his plan of the United States of Europe
September 7 - Steamboat Kuru sinks in Näsijärvi, Tampere, Finland - 136 drowned
September 17 - Coup ousts Augustinas Voldemaras in Lithuania; new president is Antas Smetona
September 29 - Myrtle Bennett shoots her husband in Kansas City because he played so badly in bridge.

October 11 - JC Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
October 22 - Government of Aristide Briand falls in France
October 24 - Great Depression begins: Black Thursday and then Black Tuesday (October 29) - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis.
November 7 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
November 18 - 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 area.
November 29 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
December 2 - First phone booths in London
December 3 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.
December 29 - All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence

1929 in aviation
1929 in film
- January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
- May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed
- The Broadway Melody
1929 in literature
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1929 in music
- December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time
1929 in science
1929 in sports
- February 1 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
1929 in television
- June 27 - The first public demonstration of a mechanical color television, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are of a bouquet of roses and an American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington.
- Milton Berle appears in an experimental television broadcast.