1929 Calendar
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1929 Historical Event(s)
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.
April 3, 1929
– RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
May 15, 1929
– A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
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 7, 1929
– Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
October 18, 1929
– The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered “Persons” under Canadian law.
October 24, 1929
– “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
October 29, 1929
– The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or “Black Tuesday”, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
October 30, 1929
– The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
Who Were Born On 1929?
January 31, 1929
– Jean Simmons, English American actress (d. 2010)
February 18, 1929
– Len Deighton, British author
March 29, 1929
– Richard Lewontin, American biologist
March 31, 1929
– Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007)
June 21, 1929
– Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
August 23, 1929
– Vera Miles, American actress
September 22, 1929
– Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
September 30, 1929
– Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist
December 9, 1929
– John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
December 12, 1929
– Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician