1929

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Top Song(s)
• Eddie Cantor - Makin' Whoopee
• Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'
• Ethel Waters - Am I Blue?
• Charley Patton - Pony Blues
• Maurice Chevalier - Louise

Top Film(s)
• Man with a Movie Camera
• Pandora's Box
• The Cocoanuts
• Diary of a Lost Girl
• Blackmail

Best Selling Book(s)
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• Partners in Crime - Agatha Christie
• A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
• Emil and the Detectives - Erich Kastner

Famous Deaths
• January 15 – Sir William Dawkins, British geologist and archaeologist
• February 27 – Briton Hadden, co-founder of Time Magazine
• March 20 – Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces in World War I
• May 13 – Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, mathematician, cryptanalyst and inventor
• June 11 – William D. Boyce, American entrepreneur, founder of the Boy Scouts of America
• August 4 – Carl Auer von Welsbach, Austrian chemist and inventor
• October 3 - Gustav Stresemann, German statesman, 16th Chancellor of Germany
• October 26 – Aby Warburg, German historian, cultural theorist
• November 24 - Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, leader of the World War I
• December 17 - Manuel Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general, politician and 10th President of Portugal

Medical/Science/Technology
• Henry Norris Russell publishes his finding that hydrogen is the principal constituent of stars.
• George Gamow proposes hydrogen fusion as the energy source for stars.
• The German airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight.
• Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation is founded.
• Carl and Gerty Cori propose the Cori cycle, describing how the human body processes carbohydrates.
• Lars Onsager publishes his reciprocal relations equations in thermodynamics.
• Styrene-butadiene is developed by German chemist Walter Bock.
• November – Vladimir Zworykin takes out a patent for color television.
• First practical coaxial cable patented by Lloyd Espenschied and Herman Affel of Bell Labs.
• Hans Berger discovers human electroencephalography.

Political Events
• February 9 – "Litvinov's Pact" is signed in Moscow by the Soviet Union, Poland, Estonia, Romania and Latvia.
• February 11 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See of the Catholic Church sign the Lateran Treaty.
• February 26 – The Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is established by Congress.
• March 4 – Herbert Hoover is sworn in as the 31st president of the United States.
• May 27 – United States v. Schwimmer decided in the Supreme Court.
• April 3 – Persia signs the Litvinov Protocol.
• May 31 – The United Kingdom general election again returns a hung parliament.
• June 7 – The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified.
• June 21 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
• October 25 – Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery.

National Events
• January 17 – The comic strip hero Popeye first appears in Thimble Theatre.
• January 29 – The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train guide dogs to assist the blind.
• March 2 – The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.
• May 15 – Cleveland Clinic Fire of 1929.
• May 16 – The 1st Academy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
• August 19 – The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut.
• August 29 - The SS San Juan collides with the oil tanker S.C.T. Dodd off the California coast, killing 77 people.
• September 11 - San Francisco Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system.
• October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929.
• November 7 – The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opens to the public.

Worldwide Events
• March 28 – Japanese forces withdraw from Shandong province to their garrison in Qingdao.
• March 30 – Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.
• April 14 – The first edition of the Monaco Grand Prix is held.
• May 7 – "The Battle Of Blood Alley" is fought by a razor gang in Sydney, Australia.
• June 3 – The Treaty of Lima settles a border dispute between Peru and Chile.
• July 24 - The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect.
• July 27 - The Geneva Convention addresses the treatment of prisoners of war.
• September 5 – Aristide Briand presents his plan for the United States of Europe.
• October 13 – Afghan Civil War ends.
• October 22 – The government of Aristide Briand falls in France.