Page 10: Historical Events In 1929

Aug 04   60000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich   

Aug 04   Yasser Arafat, leader (Palestine Liberation Organization)   

Aug 07   Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch govt.   

Aug 07   Don Larsen, pitcher (NY Yankees), on what must have been a perfect day   

Aug 08   1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins   

Aug 08   German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight   

Aug 08   Salem Oregon airport dedicated   

Aug 09   Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71   

Aug 10   Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75   

Aug 10   Canadian National Railways place in service the inaugural road diesel electric passenger locomotive. This consisted of two units, weighing a total of 335 tons   

Aug 10   Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last NL win   

Aug 11   Babe Ruth is recorded as becoming 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve).   

Aug 13   Augustyn Bloch, composer   

Aug 14   Hewlett Thompson, Bishop of Exeter   

Aug 14   Jewish Agency for Palestine forms   

Aug 16   Bill Evans, US jazz pianist   

Aug 16   Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70   

Aug 18   Hugues Aufray, French singer   

Aug 19   Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57.   

Aug 20   1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed   

Aug 20   inaugural airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed.   

Aug 20   Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)   

Aug 21   Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party   

Aug 21   Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town.   

Aug 22   Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74   

Aug 23   Arabs attack Jews in Israel.   

Aug 23   Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies   

Aug 24   43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)   

Aug 25   Frederick Burton, cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies   

Aug 25   Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage   

Aug 26   1st US roller coaster built.   

Aug 28   Frank Woolley scores his 100th inaugural-class hundred   

Aug 28   Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons).   

Aug 29   German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight   

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Jan 01   Holling gustav vapor: Character on northern exposure   

Jan 02   Art prysock: Jazz musician   

Jan 03   Marilyn lloyd: (rep-d-tn, 1975- )   

Jan 03   Sergio leone: Italian, director (fist full of dollars)   

Jan 03   Ernst mahle: Brazilian composer   

Jan 04   Amitai w etzioni: Us sociologist (active society)   

Jan 04   Bobby tulloch: Ornithologist   

Jan 04   Yayoi kusama: Japanese artist, sculptor   

Jan 02   Erich wichman[n]: Dutch fascist painter/sculptor,    

Jan 06   Nicolas nikolayevitch: Grand-duke of russia,    

Jan 07   Henry arthur jones: English playwright (silver king),    

Jan 09   Heiner muller: Writer,   

Jan 11   Julio antonio mella: Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28   

Jan 13   Wyatt earp: Us marshall (ok corral),   

Jan 14   Cornelis w lely: Dutch governor of suriname (1902-05),   

Jan 19   Liang qichao: Chinese scholar (b. 1873)