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List of events
Events from the year 1929 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Bibb Graves (Democratic )
Governor of Arizona : George W. P. Hunt (Democratic ) (until January 7), John Calhoun Phillips (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Arkansas : Harvey Parnell (Democratic )
Governor of California : Clement C. Young (Republican )
Governor of Colorado : Billy Adams (Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut : John H. Trumbull (Republican )
Governor of Delaware : Robert P. Robinson (Republican ) (until January 15), C. Douglass Buck (Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Florida : John W. Martin (Democratic ) (until January 8), Doyle E. Carlton (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Georgia : Lamartine G. Hardman (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho : H. C. Baldridge (Republican )
Governor of Illinois : Len Small (Republican ) (until January 14), Louis L. Emmerson (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Indiana : Edward L. Jackson (Republican ) (until January 14), Harry G. Leslie (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Iowa : John Hammill (Republican )
Governor of Kansas : Ben S. Paulen (Republican ) (until January 14), Clyde M. Reed (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Kentucky : Flem D. Sampson (Republican )
Governor of Louisiana : Huey P. Long (Democratic )
Governor of Maine : Owen Brewster (Republican ) (until January 2), William Tudor Gardiner (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Maryland : Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : Alvan T. Fuller (Republican ) (until January 3), Frank G. Allen (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Michigan : Fred W. Green (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : Theodore Christianson (Republican )
Governor of Mississippi : Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : Samuel Aaron Baker (Republican ) (until January 14), Henry S. Caulfield (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Montana : John E. Erickson (Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska : Adam McMullen (Republican ) (until January 3), Arthur J. Weaver (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Nevada : Fred B. Balzar (Republican )
Governor of New Hampshire : Huntley N. Spaulding (Republican ) (until January 3), Charles W. Tobey (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of New Jersey : A. Harry Moore (Democratic ) (until January 15), Morgan Foster Larson (Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of New Mexico : Richard C. Dillon (Republican )
Governor of New York : Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina : Angus Wilton McLean (Democratic ) (until January 11), Oliver Max Gardner (Democratic ) (starting January 11)
Governor of North Dakota : Walter Maddock (Republican ) (until January 9), George F. Shafer (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Ohio : A. Victor Donahey (Democratic ) (until January 14), Myers Y. Cooper (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Oklahoma : Henry S. Johnston (Democratic ) (until March 20), William J. Holloway (Democratic ) (starting March 20)
Governor of Oregon : I. L. Patterson (Republican ) (until December 22), A. W. Norblad (Republican ) (starting December 22)
Governor of Pennsylvania : John Stuchell Fisher (Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island : Norman S. Case (Republican )
Governor of South Carolina : John Gardiner Richards Jr. (Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota : William J. Bulow (Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee : Henry Hollis Horton (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : Dan Moody (Democratic )
Governor of Utah : George Dern (Democratic )
Governor of Vermont : John E. Weeks (Republican )
Governor of Virginia : Harry F. Byrd (Democratic )
Governor of Washington : Roland H. Hartley (Republican )
Governor of West Virginia : Howard M. Gore (Republican ) (until March 4), William G. Conley (Republican ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin : Fred R. Zimmerman (Republican ) (until January 7), Walter J. Kohler Sr. (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Wyoming : Frank C. Emerson (Republican )
Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : William C. Davis (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : William Lee Cazort (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California : H. L. Carnahan (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : George Milton Corlett (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : J. Edwin Brainard (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Ernest E. Rogers (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : James H. Anderson (Republican ) (until January 15), James H. Hazel (Republican ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Fred E. Sterling (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : F. Harold Van Orman (Republican ) (until January 14), Edgar D. Bush (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Arch W. McFarlane (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Jacob W. Graybill (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : James Breathitt Jr. (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Paul N. Cyr (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Frank G. Allen (Republican ) (until January 3), William S. Youngman (political party unknown) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Luren D. Dickinson (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : William I. Nolan (Republican ) (until June 25), Charles Edward Adams (Republican ) (starting June 25)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Bidwell Adam (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Philip Allen Bennett (Republican ) (until January 14), Edward Henry Winter (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana : W. S. McCormack (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Frank A. Hazelbaker (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : George A. Williams (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Morley Griswold (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico :
Lieutenant Governor of New York : vacant (until January 1), Herbert H. Lehman (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Jacob E. Long (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Richard T. Fountain (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : vacant (until January 9), John W. Carr (Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : George C. Braden (Republican ) (until January 14), John T. Brown (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : William J. Holloway (Democratic ) (until March 21), vacant (starting March 21)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Arthur H. James (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : vacant (until month and day unknown), James G. Connelly (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Thomas Bothwell Butler (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : vacant (until month and day unknown), Sam R. Bratton (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Barry Miller (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : vacant (until month and day unknown), Stanley C. Wilson (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Junius Edgar West (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : W. Lon Johnson (Republican ) (until January 14), John Arthur Gellatly (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Henry A. Huber (Republican )
Events
January–March
February 26: Grand Teton National Park
March 4: Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st U.S. President
Charles Curtis becomes the 31st U.S. Vice President
January 1 – In college football , California loses to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in the 27th Rose Bowl by a score of 8–7.
January 29 – The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train guide dogs to assist the blind , by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank in Nashville, Tennessee .
February 11 – Eugene O'Neill 's Dynamo premieres in New York .
February 14 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre : Seven gangsters , rivals of Al Capone , are murdered in Chicago .[1]
February 26 – The Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is established by Congress.
March 2 – The longest bridge in the world, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge , opens.
March 4 – Herbert Hoover is sworn in as the 31st President of the United States , and Charles Curtis is sworn in as Vice President of the United States .
March 16 – A part-talkie film version of Show Boat , based on Edna Ferber 's novel rather than the musical, premieres in Palm Beach (starring Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut ). It is critically panned and not successful at the box office.
April–June
May 13 – The National Crime Syndicate is founded in Atlantic City .
May 15 – Cleveland Clinic Fire of 1929
A leak and explosion of methyl chloride refrigerant in a Cleveland hospital kills one hundred and twenty-eight and becomes regarded as the catalyst for the development of chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants.[2]
May 16 – The 1st Academy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California , with Wings (1927 film) winning Academy Award for Best Picture . Joseph W. Farnham wins the only award ever given for Best Writing, Title Writing.
May 17 – Al Capone and his bodyguard are arrested for concealing deadly weapons.[3]
May 20 – The Wickersham Commission begins its investigation of alcohol prohibition in the United States .
May 27 – United States v. Schwimmer decided in the Supreme Court affirms that pacifism is sufficient ground to deny an applicant citizenship of the United States .
June 12 – Lou Hoover has tea at the White House with Jessie De Priest , wife of Oscar De Priest , the first black congressman of the 20th century.
June 16 – Otto E. Funk , 62, ends his marathon walk (New York City to San Francisco , 4,165 miles in 183 days).
June 21 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico .
June 27 – The first public demonstration of color television is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City. 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, D.C.
July–September
October–December
October 24: Wall Street Crash of 1929
October 11 – J. C. Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware , making it a nationwide company with department stores in all 48 states.
October 14 – The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs , 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series Title.
October 24–October 29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929 : Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
October 24 – The Mount Hope Bridge , connecting Portsmouth to Bristol in Rhode Island , opens to traffic.
October 25 – Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal , becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.
November 7 – The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opens to the public.
November 15 – The Ambassador Bridge , connecting Detroit , Michigan , to Windsor, Ontario , opens to traffic.
November 29 – Bernt Balchen , U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd , Captain Ashley McKinley, and Harold June , become the first to fly over the South Pole .
December 3 – Great Depression : U.S. President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation, and that the American people have regained faith in the economy.
Undated
Sport
Births
January
Martin Luther King Jr.
February
Vic Morrow
James Hong
March
Joseph Mascolo
Cecil Taylor
April
Jane Powell
May
Audrey Hepburn
Betty Carter
John Conyers
May 2 – Link Wray , rock and roll musician (d. 2005 )
May 3
May 4
May 5 – Ilene Woods , American singer, actress (d. 2010 )
May 6 – Paul Lauterbur , American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007 )
May 7
May 8
May 10 – Betty Foss , American female professional baseball player (d. 1998 )
May 11 – Margaret Kerry , American actress
May 15 – Frank Heart , American computer engineer (d. 2018 )
May 16
May 18 – Walter Pitman , American educator, politician (d. 2018 )
May 22 – Neave Brown , American-British architect (d. 2018 )
May 25 – Beverly Sills , American operatic soprano, director of the New York City Opera (d. 2007 )
May 27 – Thomas E. Brennan , American jurist (d. 2018 )
May 30 – Marshall Loeb , American business journalist (d. 2017 )
June
James H. Billington
Chuck Barris
James McDivitt
June 1
June 3 – Chuck Barris , American television game show host, producer (d. 2017 )
June 6 – Mary Hatcher , American soprano, actress (d. 2018 )
June 9 – Johnny Ace , African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954 )
June 10
June 16 – Paul Cain , American Pentecostal Christian evangelist (d. 2019 )
June 20
June 21
June 22 – Alex P. Garcia , American politician (d. 1999 )
June 23
June 24
June 25 – Eric Carle , American designer, illustrator and writer
June 26 – Milton Glaser , American graphic designer, illustrator and teacher (d. 2020 )
June 27 – J. C. Duncan , American politician
June 28 – Glenn D. Paige , American political scientist (d. 2017 )
July
Katherine Helmond
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
July 1 – Gerald Edelman , American biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2014 )
July 3
Joanne Herring , American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and former television talk show host
Lavelle White , American Texas blues and soul blues singer, songwriter
July 4
July 5 – Katherine Helmond , American actress (d. 2019 )
July 6 – Angelo LiPetri , American former professional baseball player (d. 2016 )
July 8 – Shirley Ann Grau , American writer (d. 2020 )
July 9 – Jesse McReynolds , American bluegrass musician
July 11 – Sandy Frank , American television producer, distributor, and marketer of TV shows
July 14 – Pat Scott , American pitcher (d. 2016 )
July 17 – Arthur Frommer , American writer, publisher and consumer advocate
July 18 – Dick Button , American figure skater
July 19 – Alice Pollitt , American female professional baseball player (d. 2016 )
July 20 – Hosbet Suresh , American judge
July 21
July 26 – Patrick Flores , American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017 )
July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , American socialite, conservationist, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1994 )
July 31 – Don Murray , American actor
August
Buck Owens
Roxie Roker
August 1 – Samuel Charters , American writer, music historian and record producer (d. 2015 )
August 7
August 9 – Fred Fredericks , American cartoonist (d. 2015 )
August 10 – Vincent McEveety , American director, producer (d. 2018 )
August 12 – Buck Owens , American, singer, bandleader, and TV host (d. 2006 )
August 13 – Pat Harrington Jr. , American voice actor (d. 2016 )
August 14
August 15
August 17 – Francis Gary Powers , American U-2 spy plane pilot (d. 1977 )
August 21 – Marie Severin , American comics artist, colorist (d. 2018 )
August 26 – Chuck Renslow , American businessman, LGBT activist (d. 2017 )
August 27 – Ralph T. Coe , American art historian of Native American art (d. 2010 )
August 28 – Roxie Roker , African-American actress (d. 1995 )
August 31 – C. C. Torbert Jr. , American jurist (d. 2018 )
September
Bob Newhart
Arnold Palmer
Anne Meara
September 1 – Murray Fromson , American journalist (d. 2018 )
September 2 – Hal Ashby , American film director and editor (d. 1988 )
September 3 – Whitey Bulger , Irish-American gangster and multiple murderer (d. 2018 )
September 4 – Thomas Eagleton , American politician (d. 2007 )
September 5 – Bob Newhart , American comedian, actor
September 6 – Dow Finsterwald , American professional golfer
September 9 – Stanford Parris , American lawyer and politician (d. 2010 )
September 10 – Arnold Palmer , American professional golfer (d. 2016 )
September 11
September 12 – Harvey Schmidt , American composer (d. 2018 )
September 14
September 15 – Murray Gell-Mann , American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2019 )
September 16
September 19
September 20 – Anne Meara , American actress, comedian (d. 2015 )
September 22 – William E. Dannemeyer , American politician
September 25
September 26 – Meredith Gourdine , American athlete (d. 1998 )
September 28 – Skip Bafalis , American politician
September 30 – Helen M. Marshall , American politician (d. 2017 )
October
Ursula K. Le Guin
October 2 – Moses Gunn , African-American actor (d. 1993 )
October 4
October 5 – Richard F. Gordon Jr. , American astronaut (d. 2017 )
October 8 – Arthur Bisguier , American chess Grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer (d. 2017 )
October 15 – Hubert Dreyfus , American philosopher (d. 2017 )
October 21 – Ursula K. Le Guin , American science fiction and fantasy author (d. 2018 )
October 22 – Patsy Elsener , American diver (d. 2019 )
October 24
October 25 – David McReynolds , American political activist (d. 2018 )
October 28 – Mitchell Torok , American country music singer
November
Grace Kelly
Ed Asner
Dick Clark
November 1 – Nicholas Mavroules , American politician (d. 2003 )
November 2
November 6 – June Squibb , American actress
November 8
November 9 – Severn Darden , American comedian, actor (d. 1995 )
November 11 – LaVern Baker , American singer (d. 1997 )
November 12 – Grace Kelly , American actress (d. 1982 )[6]
November 13 – Fred Phelps , American pastor, activist (Westboro Baptist Church ) (d. 2014 )
November 14 – Jimmy Piersall , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2017 )
November 15
November 18 – John McMartin , American actor (d. 2016 )
November 23
November 24 – George Moscone , American attorney, politician (d. 1978 )
November 28
November 30
December
Kathleen Crowley
December 1 – David Doyle , American actor (d. 1997 )
December 2
December 9 – John Cassavetes , American actor (d. 1989 )
December 17 – William Safire , American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter (d. 2009 )
December 20 – David H. Gambrell , American politician
December 21 – Newton Morton , American geneticist (d. 2018 )
December 23 – Chet Baker , American jazz musician (d. 1988 )
December 26 – Kathleen Crowley , American actress (d. 2017 )
December 29
December 31 – Robert B. Silvers , American literary editor (d. 2017 )
Deaths
January 5 – Marc McDermott , actor (born 1881 )
January 13
January 15
January 30 – Franklin J. Drake , admiral (born 1846 )
February 4 – William Rankin Ballard , businessman (born 1847 )
February 14 – Thomas Burke , sprinter (born 1875 )
February 18 – William Russell , silent film actor (born 1884 )
February 22 – Louise Upton Brumback , landscape painter (born 1867 )
February 24 – Frank Keenan , actor (born 1858 )
February 27 – Briton Hadden , co-founder of Time magazine (born 1898 )
March 1 – Royal H. Weller , politician (born 1881 )
March 5 – David Dunbar Buick , inventor (born 1854 in Scotland )
March 6 – Moses E. Clapp , politician (born 1851 )
March 12 – Asa Griggs Candler , businessman and politician (born 1851)
March 15 – Pinetop Smith , blues pianist (born 1904 ; shot in dancehall brawl)
March 18 – William P. Cronan , Naval Governor of Guam (born 1879 )
March 28 – Katharine Lee Bates , librettist, author of "America the Beautiful " (born 1859 )
April 4 – William Michael Crose , United States Navy Commander and 7th Governor of American Samoa (born 1867)
April 28 – May Jordan McConnel , Australian trade unionist and suffragist (born 1860 )[9]
June 2 – Don Murray , jazz clarinettist (born 1894 ; auto accident)
June 4 – Harry Frazee , Broadway producer and baseball owner (born 1881)
June 5 – Adolph Coors , brewer, suicide (born 1847 in Prussia; suicide)
June 9 – murder–suicide [10]
June 11 – William D. Boyce , entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (born 1858)
July 2 – Gladys Brockwell , film actress (born 1893; auto accident)
July 3 – Dustin Farnum , silent Western film actor (born 1874 )
July 12 – Robert Henri , painter (born 1865 )
July 20 - Noble Drew Ali , Prophet born in North Carolina, born 1886 passes form
August 3
August 19 – Chris Kelly , jazz trumpeter (born c.1890)
August 27 – James Knox Taylor , official architect (born 1857)
September 2 – Paul Leni , filmmaker (born 1885 in Germany )[11]
September 4 – Frederick Freeman Proctor , vaudeville impresario (born 1851)
September 25 – Miller Huggins , baseball manager (born 1879)
October 3 – Jeanne Eagels , actress (born 1890 ; addiction)
November 14 – Joe McGinnity , baseball player (born 1871 )
November 17 – Herman Hollerith , businessman and inventor (born 1860 )
November 24 – Raymond Hitchcock , actor and producer (born 1865)
December 10 – Harry Crosby , publisher and poet (born 1898; suicide)
December 19 – Blind Lemon Jefferson , blues musician (born 1893; heart failure)
December 21 – I. L. Patterson , politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (born 1859)
Adelaïde Alsop Robineau , ceramicist (born 1865)
Dallas Lore Sharp , nature writer (born 1870 )
See also
References
External links
1929 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories