Historical Events In 1929
May 03 Prussia bans anti-fascists
May 21 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
May 19 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek Government
May 27 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
May 12 The birth of Burt Bacharach, American Composer
May 19 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium; 2 people crushed to death
May 11 Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin TX
May 16 The first ever Academy Awards (Oscars) are held
May 16 The first-ever Academy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
May 23 Canada's first airborne wedding takes place in a bi-plane over Regina.
May 11 The first regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
May 15 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland OH)
May 08 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
May 31 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
May 11 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
May 27 2nd Ryder Cup Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
May 01 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
May 01 In Iran a 7.4 earthquake resulted in 3,300 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
May 01 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
May 23 First non-stop Winnipeg-to-Edmonton flight made in six hours and 48 minutes. (and it still takes about 6 hours for the trip)
May 12 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
Jan 25 Bradman scores 340* for New South Wales vs Victoria, 488 minutes, 38 fours
Jan 17 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre"
Jan 13 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA
Jan 17 King Inayatullah of Afghanistan forced to abdicate after a coup; he ruled for only three days.
Jan 31 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
Jan 18 "New York Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
Jan 06 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
Jan 15 The birth of Martin Luther King, US black civil rights campaigner
Jan 14 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
Jan 02 US &Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
Jan 03 Bradman scores 112 vs England at MCG - his first Test century
Jan 18 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
Jan 05 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
Jan 26 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
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