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Months in 1929: January February March April May June July September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 24 of 24

2nd - Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
4th - 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
4th - Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6
4th - Jones Beach in NY opens
7th - Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch govt
7th - Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
8th - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins
8th - German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
8th - Salem Oregon airport dedicated
10th - Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
11th - Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)
11th - Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
11th - Russian-Chinese border fights
14th - Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
20th - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
21st - Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
23rd - Arabs attack Jews in Israel
24th - 43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
24th - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
24th - Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
25th - Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
26th - 1st US roller coaster built
28th - Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
29th - German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 50 of 50

1st - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (d. 2006)
2nd - Alan Wicker, British broadcaster
2nd - John Gale, theatrical producer
2nd - John Hannam, MP
2nd - Lord Waddington, Governor of Bermuda
3rd - Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap)
4th - Yasser Arafat, leader (Palestine Liberation Organization)
4th - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
6th - Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
6th - Mike Elliot, rocker
6th - Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
7th - Don Larsen, pitcher (NY Yankees), on what must have been a perfect day
7th - James Pilditch, designer
7th - Richard T Schulze, (Rep-R-PA, 1975- )
7th - Ruth Carter-Stapleton, Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist
7th - Don Larsen, American baseball player
8th - Josef Suk, Prague Czechoslovakia, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977)
8th - Rose Nyland, writer
8th - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
10th - John Alldis, composer/conductor
11th - Alun Hoddinott, Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture)
11th - Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, mezzo-soprano (Figaro, Carmen)
12th - Buck Owens, [Alvis Edgar], Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
12th - Charles Moore, Coatsville Pa, 400m hurdler (Oly-gold/silver-52)
12th - Joji Yuasa, composer
13th - Augustyn Bloch, composer
13th - Charles Lyon, gen-sect (Transport Salaried Staffs Association)
13th - Michael Beavis, deputy cmdr-in-chief (Allied Forces Central Europe)
13th - Pat Harrington Jr, NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
14th - Hewlett Thompson, Bishop of Exeter
14th - Louise M Slaughter, (Rep-D-New York)
14th - Oliver Neville, principal (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts)
14th - Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
16th - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist
16th - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
16th - Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
17th - Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
18th - Hugues Aufray, French singer
20th - Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)
21st - Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party
21st - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
22nd - Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
23rd - Peter Thompson, golfer
24th - William Winfield, rocker (Harptones)
27th - Ad J Hermes, Dutch MP (KVP/CDA)
27th - Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
27th - Ira Levin, author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day)
28th - Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
29th - Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet (The Wound)
31st - Julio Ramon Ribeyro, writer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 14 of 14

1st - Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian captain pre-WWI), dies
2nd - Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
3rd - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
3rd - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
5th - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847)
9th - Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
10th - Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75
10th - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
16th - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70
19th - Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
22nd - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74
23rd - Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
25th - Frederick Burton, cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies
27th - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)