1st January » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are Merger (politics) named amalgamated into Vancouver.
10th January » 'The Adventures of Tintin', one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium.
17th January » Popeye e.g Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar called Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
17th January » Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days.
20th January » 'In Old Arizona', the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
31st January » The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
11th February » Kingdom of Italy e.g Fascist Italy and the Holy See e.g Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
26th February » President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
3rd April » RMS or Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
6th April » Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
8th April » Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
14th May » Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class cricket called first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that number.
15th May » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
16th May » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded.
31st May » The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
1st June » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
7th June » The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
8th June » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Secretary of State for Employment named Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
21st June » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
23rd July » The Italian Fascism or Fascist government in Kingdom of Italy or Italy bans the use of foreign words.
24th July » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
27th July » The Geneva Convention (1929) called Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
3rd August » Jiddu Krishnamurti, tagged as the Messianism messianic "Maitreya (Theosophy) World Teacher", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star in the East Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
8th August » The German airship 'LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin e.g Graf Zeppelin' begins a round-the-world flight.
11th August » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home run club e.g 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland e.g Cleveland, Ohio.
16th August » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
23rd August » 1929 Hebron massacre or Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Palestinian people e.g Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the r
24th August » Second day of two-day 1929 Hebron massacre e.g Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Palestinian people called Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaini
7th September » HL Kuru called Steamer 'Kuru' capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
25th September » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument flight rules e.g instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
3rd October » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
7th October » Patriarch Photios II of Constantinople called Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
11th October » JC Penney opens store 1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
18th October » The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in 'Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) called Edwards v. Canada' when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
23rd October » Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
24th October » "Wall Street Crash 1929 known as Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
28th October » Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
30th October » The Standseilbahn Stuttgart e.g Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
7th November » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
18th November » 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland (island) called Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a t
29th November » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
24th December » Assassination attempt on Argentina e.g Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
27th December » General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union known as Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "Dekulakization e.g liquidation of the kulaks as a class", ostensibly as an effort to spread socialism to the countryside.