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# 1929

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Years : | 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: | 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932

## [edit] Events

- February 20 - American Samoa becomes organized as a territory of the United States
- July 16 - The first Oscar-event
- August 8 to August 29 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight. It was 49.000 km.
- October 24 - The Black Friday
- October 29 - The Black Tuesday

## [edit] Births

- January 15 - Martin Luther King Jr., civil-right leader
- April 1 - Milan Kundera, author
- April 6 - André Previn, composer, conductor
- May 4 - Audrey Hepburn
- June 12 - Anne Frank, Dutch diarist of Jewish descent
- July 28 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady
- August 2 - K.M. Peyton, English writer
- August 24 - Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority
- November 14 - McLean Stevenson, actor

## [edit] Deaths

- February 8 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain
- March 20 - Marshall Ferdinand Foch, (French)
- April 4 - Carl Benz, German automobile pioneer
- October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor

## [edit] Nobel Prize winners

- Physics - Louis-Victor de Broglie, French physicist
- Chemistry - Arthur Harden and Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
- Medicine - Christiaan Eijkman (Dutch physicist) and Frederick Gowland Hopkins
- Literature - Thomas Mann, German writer
- Peace - Frank Billings Kellogg

## [edit] Hit songs

- "Am I Blue?" by Ethel Waters
- "Button Up Your Overcoat" by Helen Kane
- "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee
- "I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw
- "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley
- "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
- "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
- "Louise" by Maurice Chevalier
- "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby
- "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
- "Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith
- "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith
- "Piccolo Pete" by Ted Weems & His Orchestra
- "Singin' In The Rain" by Cliff Edwards
- "Stardust" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
- "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
- "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee

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