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

Historical Events

Results 1 - 30 of 30

1st - Roy Riegels runs 60 yds the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery
2nd - US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
3rd - 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres
3rd - Bradman scores 112 v England at MCG - his 1st Test century
5th - Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
6th - Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
6th - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
7th - "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
7th - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
7th - 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies
8th - 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
8th - CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC
9th - BG DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in NYC
9th - KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
10th - Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC
12th - Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
13th - Humanist Society established, Hollywood Calif
14th - Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
17th - Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
18th - "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
18th - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
19th - Acadia National Park, Maine established
19th - Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec
20th - 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
21st - Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London
25th - Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours
26th - Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
29th - Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
31st - Erich Maria Remarque publishes "Im Westen nichts Neues" in Berlin
31st - Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 58 of 58

1st - Holling Gustav Vapor, character on Northern Exposure
2nd - Art Prysock, jazz musician
3rd - Marilyn Lloyd, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
3rd - Sergio Leone, Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
3rd - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
4th - Amitai W Etzioni, US sociologist (Active Society)
4th - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist
4th - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist, sculptor
5th - Wilbert Harrison, singer
6th - Wilbert Harrison, R & B singer (Kansas City)
6th - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
7th - Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)
7th - Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952)
7th - Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba)
8th - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
9th - Heiner Muller, dramatist
9th - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
9th - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
10th - Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
11th - Nicoletta Orsomando
11th - Rod Taylor, Sydney Australia, actor (Bearcats, Time Machine)
11th - Wanda Wilkomirska, Warsaw, Poland, violinist
12th - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher
12th - Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottis-born American philosopher
13th - Joseph Anthony Pass, guitarist
13th - Wim Bary, Dutch actor/theater director (Nice Boys)
14th - Aleksander Petrovic, film director
14th - Billy Walker, Ralls Tx, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
15th - "Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music
15th - Eva Badura-Skoda, composer
15th - Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964)
16th - Allard Lowenstein, radical (Students for Democratic Action)
16th - Francesco Scavullo, Staten Island NY, celebrity photographer
16th - Tage Nielsen, composer
17th - Jacques "Jake the Snake" Plante, Quebec, NHL goaltender (#1)
19th - Ulu Grosbard, Belgium, actor (Straight Time, Georgia, Falling in Love)
20th - Arte Johnson, Chicago Ill, comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie)
20th - Bob Denard, French mercenary
22nd - Rita Gillespie, TV director
23rd - Ian Thomson, cricketer (England seam bowler v South Africa 1964-65)
23rd - John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986)
23rd - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
26th - Jules Feiffer, NYC, cartoonist (Passionella)/author (Little Murders)
26th - M R Turner, publisher
26th - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
27th - Ingrid Thulin, Solleftea Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned)
27th - Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC
27th - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
28th - Acker Bilk, singer (Stranger on the Shore)
28th - Claes Oldenburg, Stockholm Sweden, US pop artist (Alphabet/Good Humor)
28th - Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist
29th - Elio Petri, Italy, director (Property is no theft)
29th - William McMillan, US, rapid pistol (Olympic-gold-1960) [or Jul 3]
30th - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (celebrated S African off-spinner 1949-60)
30th - Viscount Long
30th - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
31st - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
31st - Jean Simmons, London, England, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 11 of 11

2nd - Erich Wichman[n], Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at 38
6th - Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72
7th - Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
9th - Heiner Muller, writer, dies
11th - Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28
13th - Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80
13th - H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
14th - Cornelis W Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74
19th - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
24th - Willem Royaards, theater directeor (Adam in Ballingschap), dies
30th - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)