1929 Facts for Kids

Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. By January 1 of this year, every state in the entire world had adopted the Gregorian calendar, having abandoned the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1926 1927 1928 – 1929 – 1930 1931 1932

Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prize winners
Hit songs
Images for kids
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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

Births

January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader
January 31 - Jean Simmons, actress
February 21 - Roberto Gómez Bolaños, actor, screenwriter, director, producer and comedian
April 1 – Milan Kundera, writer
April 6 – André Previn, composer, conductor
May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, actress
May 25 - Beverly Sills, American soprano
June 12 – Anne Frank, Dutch diarist of Jewish descent
June 18 - Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner
June 20 - Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman
July 25 - Manuel Olivencia, Spanish lawyer and economist
July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States, 1961-63
August 2 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
August 24 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority
November 12 - Grace Kelly, actress and later Princess of Monaco
November 14 – McLean Stevenson, actor
December 13 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian-American actor

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