WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1929
Find out what all happened January to December 1929

The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. (31. January 1929)

Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. (8. April 1929)

Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. (7. October 1929)

The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium. (10. January 1929)

In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are awarded. (16. May 1929)

The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words. (23. July 1929)

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs". (3. October 1929)

The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires. (1. June 1929)

1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of 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 tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula. (18. November 1929)

A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123. (15. May 1929)

"Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange. (24. October 1929)

Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval. (28. October 1929)

The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations. (27. July 1929)

The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. (8. August 1929)

The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver. (1. January 1929)

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. (18. October 1929)

The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed. (16. August 1929)

Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau. (14. May 1929)

Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: 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 remaining Jews being forced to leave the city. (23. August 1929)

Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people. (6. January 1929)