1929

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934

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Births

• February 11 - [Leonard Gregory Kastle]?, composer
• [Sidney F. Lamb]?, American linguist, father of [stratificational grammar]?.

Deaths

• Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer

Events

• February 11 - Italy and the Vatican sign the [Lateran Treaty]?.
• February 11 - [Eugene O'Neill]?'s "Dynamo" premieres in New York.
• October 24 - [Black Thursday]?, beginning of the Great Depression.
• Change of US presidency from Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) to Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie]?
• Chemistry - [Arthur Harden]?, [Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin]?
• Medicine - [Christiaan Eijkman]?, [Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins]?
• Literature - Thomas Mann
• Peace - [Frank Billings Kellogg]?