Year by year · 20th century

1929

1929 in world history: 19 events, 19 births, 15 deaths, 3 states founded and 4 that came to an end. 722 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 15 January

    Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta

    Born Michael King Jr., the son of a Baptist minister, he became the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was assassinated in 1968.

  2. 11 February

    Lateran Treaty creates Vatican City

    Mussolini's government and the Holy See agreed to recognise Vatican City as an independent state. The treaty ended the 'Roman Question' that had divided Church and Italian state since 1870.

  3. 14 February

    Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago

    Gunmen, some dressed as police, shot dead seven men linked to Bugs Moran's gang in a garage. The killings, widely blamed on Al Capone, turned public opinion against gangland violence.

  4. 16 May

    First Academy Awards are presented in Hollywood

    About 270 guests attended a dinner at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where the first Oscars were handed out in around fifteen minutes. Wings won the top prize.

  5. 3 October

    King Alexander renames his realm the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

    Alexander I renamed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes as Yugoslavia, 'land of the South Slavs', as part of his royal dictatorship. The new name was meant to override the national rivalries dividing the state.

    YugoslaviaSlovenesCroats

  6. 24 October

    Black Thursday: panic selling hits Wall Street

    Nearly 13 million shares changed hands as panic swept the New York Stock Exchange. Bankers briefly steadied prices, but the crash that followed the next week opened the way to the Great Depression.

    New York

  7. 29 October

    Black Tuesday: the Wall Street Crash deepens

    More than 16 million shares were sold in a day of panic on the New York Stock Exchange. Black Tuesday became the emblem of the crash that preceded the Great Depression.

    New York

  8. Treaty · Peace

    Treaty of Lima (1929)

    The Treaty of Lima, signed on 3 June 1929 with the mediation of the United States, settled the Tacna–Arica dispute left by the War of the Pacific.

  9. Revolt

    Aba Women's War

    The Aba Women's War was a revolt by thousands of Igbo and Ibibio women in south-eastern Nigeria in November and December 1929.

  10. Battle

    Battle of Sabilla

    The Battle of Sabilla was fought on 29 March 1929 in Najd, central Arabia, between the forces of Ibn Saud and the Ikhwan, the tribal religious warriors who had helped him conquer Arabia but rebelled against his ban on raiding into Iraq and Kuwait and his…

  11. Event

    Black Saturday (1929)

    Black Saturday was the shooting of a peaceful Mau procession by New Zealand police in Apia, Western Samoa, on 28 December 1929.

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Wars and longer events

Born in 1929 19

Died in 1929 15

States founded 3

States that came to an end 4

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