1929

Events of 1929

January 2 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
January 9 - The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).
January 10 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages.
January 15 - First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in France by Armand Colin.
January 17 - Popeye, a comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, makes his debut.
January 18 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Union; he moves to Turkey in January 29 and applies for sanctuary in France and Germany.
January 29 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
February 11
- Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
- 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.
February 18 - First Academy Awards are announced.
February 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is established by Congress.

March 3 - Revolt attempt of Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre fails in Mexico.
March 4 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge.
March 16 - A part-talkie film version of Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel rather than the musical, premieres in Palm Beach. The film stars Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut. It is critically panned and not successful at the box office.

May - Wickersham Commission begins investigation of alcohol prohibition in U.S.
May 13 - National Crime Syndicate founded in Atlantic City.
May 14 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
May 15 - A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
May 17 - Al Capone and bodyguard were arrested for concealing deadly weapons.
May 31 - British general election returns a hung parliament yet again - Liberals will determine who has power.
June 7
- In Britain Conservatives concede power rather than ally with the Liberals.
- The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified
June 8 - Ramsay MacDonald founds new Labour government.
June 21
- Agreement brokered by US ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico. In June 27, church bells ring for the first time in years
- First Academy Awards are presented.

July 5 - Scotland Yard seizes 12 nude paintings of D.H. Lawrence from the Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency
July 24
- French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons - he is succeeded by Aristide Briand
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
July 25 - Pope Pius XI emerges from the Vatican and enters St. Peter's square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of papal self-imprisonment within the Vatican.
July 27 - Third Geneva Convention.
August 8 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).
August 19 - The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
August 23 - The 1929 Palestine riots of the Hebron, Safed, and Gaza Jewish communities got underway.