The year in history
1929
Someone born in 1929 turns 97 in 2026
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade. This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created.
What happened in 1929
6 January Dictatorship: King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution.
All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form.
The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.
Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.
The United Kingdom general election again returns a hung parliament; the Liberals in Parliament determine which party will govern.
The first public demonstration of color TV is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.
the French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns, and is succeeded by Aristide Briand.
The 1929 Palestine riots: 18–20 Jews are killed in Safed by Palestinian Arabs.
A coup ousts Augustinas Voldemaras from his prime minister position in Lithuania; he is replaced by the brother-in-law of President Antanas Smetona, Juozas Tūbelis.
Afghan Civil War ends.
November – Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for color television.
Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley and Harold June become the first to fly over the South Pole.
Famous people born in 1929
Haruo Nakajima
Japanese actor (d. 2017)
January 1 →
Irena Homola-Skąpska
Polish historian (d. 2017)
January 12 →
Sumiteru Taniguchi
Japanese anti-nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017)
January 26 →
Basilio Lami Dozo
Argentine dictator (d. 2017)
February 1 →
James Schlesinger
American politician (d. 2014)
February 15 →
Rangaswamy Srinivasan
Indian-American physical chemist and inventor
February 28 →
Cecil Taylor
African-American jazz pianist, composer, and poet (d. 2018)
March 15 →
Ivar Giaever
Norwegian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2025)
April 5 →
Paavo Berglund
Finnish conductor, violinist (d. 2012)
April 14 →
Ralf Dahrendorf
Anglo-German sociologist (d. 2009)
May 1 →
Otar Patsatsia
Georgian politician (d. 2021)
May 15 →
John Turner
17th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
June 7 →
Carolyn S. Shoemaker
American astronomer (d. 2021)
June 24 →
Daphne Hasenjäger
South African athlete
July 2 →
Sergei K. Godunov
Russian mathematician, academic (d. 2023)
July 17 →
Somnath Chatterjee
Indian politician (d. 2018)
July 25 →
Sabri Godo
Albanian writer and politician (d. 2011)
August 8 →
Bob Newhart
American comedian and actor (d. 2024)
September 5 →
Carlo Ubbiali
Italian motorcycle road racer (d. 2020)
September 22 →
Antonino Zichichi
Italian physicist (d. 2026)
October 15 →
Richard E. Taylor
Canadian-born physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
November 2 →
Gombojavyn Ochirbat
Mongolian politician
November 15 →
Arnulf Rainer
Austrian painter (d. 2025)
December 8 →
Wazir Mohammad Pakistani cricketer (d. 2025)
December 22 →