One of Those Years: 1929

January 2 - Canada and the US agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
January 15 - Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia.
February 14 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
March 4 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated thirty-first President of the United States.
May 13 - National Crime Syndicate founded in Atlantic City by Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and other “crime bosses” based in New York City and New Jersey.
May 16 - First Academy Awards are presented; Wings with Clara Bow wins Best Picture.
June 12 - Annelies Marie Frank (Anne Frank) is born in Frankfurt am Main.
June 27 - First public demonstration of color TV at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York.
October 11 - JC Penney opens its 1,252nd store, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
October 18 - Women are announced to be persons by the privy council in Britain.
October 24 -

“Black Thursday,” the first phase of stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.  (see “Boom and Bust:  The Great Crash of ‘29”)
Variety reports that only six full-time vaudeville theatres are still in operation, and approximately three hundred part-time vaudeville theatres offer variety acts between feature film screenings.
October 28 - “Black Monday,” the second phase of  stock market crash.
October 29 - "Black Tuesday,” the third and final phase of the stock market crash.
November 7 - New York City Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
Bob Hope is contracted for his first national vaudeville tour on the Keith-Orpheum circuit.
November 29 - First flight over the South Pole is made by Floyd Bennett, US Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley, and Harold June.
December 3 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover announces to U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.
December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time.