1929

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Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years:	1926 1927 1928 – 1929 – 1930 1931 1932

1929 Media

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  Map of the world and its leaders by the Geographical Publishing Company

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  October 24–29: The Wall Street Crash of 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression.

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  Plante in 1948 with the Citadelles Québec Hockey Team

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  Patriarch Filaret

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  Isamu Akasaki, Director of the Research Center for Nitride Semiconductor Core Technologies, Meijo University, was given the Order of Culture on November, 2011.

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  Basilio Lami Dozo en Cdro. Rivadavia durante la guerra de Malvinas. 1982.

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1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• February 20 – American Samoa becomes organized as a territory of the United States
• July 16 – The first Oscar-event
• August 8 to August 29 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight. It was 49.000 km.
• October 24 – The Black Friday
• October 29 – The Black Tuesday

January

Martin Luther King Jr.

Jean Simmons

Rudolf Mössbauer

• January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1968)
• January 31 – Jean Simmons, British actress (d. 2010)
• January 31 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist (d. 2011)

February

• February 21 - Chespirito, Mexican actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2014)

March

P. Ramlee

• March 22 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer and composer (d. 1973)

April

Milan Kundera

André Previn

Michael Atiyah

• April 1 – Milan Kundera, Czech writer
• April 6 – André Previn, German-born American musician (d. 2019)
• April 22 – Michael Atiyah, British mathematician (b. 2019)

May

Audrey Hepburn

Beverly Sills

• May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
• May 25 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)

June

Anne Frank

• June 12 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)

July

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

• July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

August

Yasser Arafat

• August 2 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
• August 24 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)

September

Lata Mangeshkar

• September 28 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, composer and politician (d. 2022)

October

Lev Yashin

• October 22 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)

November

Grace Kelly

• November 12 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
• November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
• November 15 - Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021)

December

Christopher Plummer

• December 11 – Owain Owain Welsh novelist and poet (d. 1993)
• December 13 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (d. 2021)

Deaths

• February 8 – Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain
• March 20 – Marshall Ferdinand Foch, (French)
• April 4 – Karl Benz, German automobile pioneer
• October 1 – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor

Nobel Prize winners

• Physics – Louis-Victor de Broglie, French physicist
• Chemistry – Arthur Harden and Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
• Medicine – Christiaan Eijkman (Dutch physicist) and Frederick Gowland Hopkins
• Literature – Thomas Mann, German writer
• Peace – Frank Billings Kellogg

Hit songs

• "Am I Blue?" by Ethel Waters
• "Button Up Your Overcoat" by Helen Kane
• "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee
• "I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw
• "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley
• "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
• "Louise" by Maurice Chevalier
• "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby
• "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
• "Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith
• "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith
• "Piccolo Pete" by Ted Weems & His Orchestra
• "Singin' In The Rain" by Cliff Edwards
• "Stardust" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
• "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
• "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee