Today in History for November 1929
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Months in 1929: January February March April May June July August September October December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 18 of 18
1st - Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps
4th - John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square," premieres in NYC
7th - Museum of Modern Art opens (NYC)
8th - Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38," premieres in Paris
8th - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
17th - Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
17th - Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo
18th - Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"
18th - Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
18th - Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
20th - 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
20th - Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show
22nd - Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG
25th - Belgium govt Jaspar falls
28th - Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
28th - Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chic Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
29th - Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)
30th - 17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 52 of 52
1st - Betsy Palmer, E Chicago Ind, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th)
1st - Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1st - Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary (Leopold the Buch)
2nd - Harold Farberman, NYC, conductor/composer (Medea)
2nd - Milan Stibilj, composer
2nd - Rachel Ames, Portland Oregon, actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital)
4th - Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (Red Sox, Senators, Indians)
4th - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987)
5th - Ottmar MA Fraai, Curacaos/Dutch tenor
7th - Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor
8th - Trevor McMahon, NZ cricket wicketkeeper (v India & Pak 1955-56)
8th - António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
8th - Bobby Bowden, American football coach
9th - Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova, composer
9th - Severn Darden, actor (Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th)
9th - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
9th - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
10th - Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
11th - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author (Death of Artemio Cruz)
11th - H M Enzensberger, writer
11th - LaVern Baker, Chicago, R&B vocalist (I Cried a Tear)
12th - Michael Ende, writer
13th - Steef C Weijers, Dutch MP (CDA)
13th - Fred Phelps, American pastor
14th - Horst Janssen, graphic Artist
14th - McLean Stevenson, Normal Ill, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry)
15th - Edward Asner, KC Kansas, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
16th - Renate Rubinstein, [Tamar], German/Ned's author/columnist (Tamar)
17th - Edgar White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
17th - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba
17th - Sumner White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
17th - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
18th - William Joseph "Pete" Knight, astronaut/test pilot (X-15)
19th - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
20th - Dick Clark, Mt Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand)
20th - Donald Ray January, Plainview TX, PGA golfer (1960 Tucson Open)
20th - Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn, Schenectady NY, conductor (Amer Ballet)
21st - Marilyn French, US author (The Women's Room)
21st - Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator
22nd - Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
23rd - Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
24th - Eileen Barton, Bkln, singer (Broadway Open House)
25th - Jack Hogan, Chapel Hill NC, ator (Combat, Adam 12, Sierra)
25th - Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Sei Studii)
26th - Betta St John, Hawthorne Calif, actress (Corridors of Blood)
26th - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
27th - Billy Nair, S Afr union/SACP leader (20 yrs in Robbeneiland Prison)
28th - Berry Gordy Jr, Detroit, record company owner (Motown)
29th - Don January, pro golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy)
29th - Jackie Stallone, mother of Sylvester Stallone
30th - Dick Clark, Mt Vernon NY, TV Host (American Bandstand)
30th - Joan Ganz Cooney, Phoenix Az, TV exec (Children's TV Workshop)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 11 of 11
3rd - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
6th - Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
9th - Nicolaas Theunissen, S Afr cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
11th - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66
14th - Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
17th - A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies
17th - Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
18th - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
19th - Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies
24th - Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88
26th - Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74
