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

Historical Events

Results 1 - 19 of 19

1st - Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
2nd - 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
3rd - Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak
5th - 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
6th - Turkey introduces female suffrage
7th - Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
7th - Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
10th - Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
14th - Alexander Zaimis elected pres of Greece
15th - Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
16th - Chic Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pitts Pirates, 3-1
20th - Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
20th - Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park
21st - 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
25th - Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390
29th - Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
30th - Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC
30th - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
31st - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 58 of 58

1st - Alan Mouncer, film director/producer
1st - Dick Shawn, Buffalo NY, actor (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel)
1st - Emily McLaughlin, White Plains NY, actress (Jessie-General Hospital)
1st - Leon Biriotti, composer
2nd - Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
2nd - Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs (ARP)
2nd - Lowell North, Springfield Mass, yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968)
3rd - Clarence Ford, sax player
3rd - Paul Harris Turok, composer
3rd - Werner Rackwitz, German musicologist (Handel-Renaissance)
6th - King Moody, NYC, actor (Shtarker-Get Smart)
6th - Mark Kopytman, composer
6th - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
6th - Frank Springer, American comics artist
6th - Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker
8th - Goffredo Parise, writer
9th - Bob Hawke, cricketer (no relation to Lord 12th man for Oxford U 1954)
9th - John Cassavetes, NYC, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby)
9th - Michel Fano, composer
9th - Robert J L Hawke, (Lab), PM Australia (1983-91)
10th - Dan Blocker, Texas, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
11th - S P "Fergie" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner)
12th - Doug Ford, cricket wicket-keeper (successful NSW of 50's)
12th - John Osborne, Engld, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964)
12th - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
13th - Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital)
13th - Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House)
14th - Ron Nelson, composer
15th - Keith Andrew, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 2 Tests 1954-63)
16th - Ian Board, barkeeper
16th - Nicholas Courtney, English actor
17th - William Safire, political columnist (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon)
18th - Gino Cimoli, American baseball player
19th - Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
19th - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
20th - Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia
21st - Jack Philip Cannon, composer
22nd - Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada)
22nd - Wazir Mohammad, cricketer (eldest of Pakistan's 4 Mohammed brothers)
23rd - Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games)
23rd - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
24th - Mary Higgins Clark, Bronx NY, author (Cry in the Night, Stillwatch)
24th - Noel Da Costa, composer
25th - Billy Horton, rocker (The Silhouettes-Get a Job)
25th - Chris Kenner, rocker
25th - Irish McCalla, Pawnee City Neb, actress (Sheena Queen of Jungle)
25th - Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter
26th - Régine, French singer and nightclub owner
28th - Maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)
28th - Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
28th - Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers)
30th - Barbara Nichols, Jamaica NY, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
30th - Bob Bouma, Dutch TV host (For a Postcard in the Front Row)
30th - Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004)
31st - Mies Bouman, Dutch TV hostess (Open the Village)
31st - Peter Barker Howard, cricketer
31st - Peter May, cricketer (dashing English batsman of 50's)
31st - Sidney Greenbaum, grammarian

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 5 of 5

9th - Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v S Africa 1899), dies
12th - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
13th - Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42
20th - Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
29th - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)