1929
Centuries:
19th century -
20th century -
21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 - 1929 - 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
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-right leader
- April 1 - Milan Kundera, author
- April 6 - André Previn, composer, conductor
- June 12 - Anne Frank, German diarist of Jewish descent
- August 24 - Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority
Deaths
- February 8 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain
- March 20 - Marshall Ferdinand Foch, (French)
- April 4 - Carl Benz, German automobile pioneer
- October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
Nobel Prize
- 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
- Nobel Prize/Peace - Frank Billings Kellogg