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Birthdays

January 1 - Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer
January 3 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
January 3 - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
January 4 - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist
January 5 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (d. 1994)
January 6 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
January 7 - Terry Moore, American actress
January 8 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
January 9 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
January 9 - Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
January 9 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
January 10 - Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
January 12 - Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottis-born American philosopher
January 13 - Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
January 15 - Martin Luther King, Jr.,
January 17 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
January 20 - Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer
January 20 - Arte Johnson, American actor
January 20 - Glenn Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
January 23 - Patriarch Filaret, (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
January 23 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist
January 25 - Benny Golson, American jazz musician
January 26 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
January 26 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
January 27 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
January 28 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
January 28 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
January 30 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
January 31 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist
January 31 - Jean Simmons, English actress
February 3 - Ken Shipp, American football coach
February 4 - Jerry Adler, American actor
February 5 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
February 5 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
February 5 - Al Worthington, baseball player
February 6 - Pierre Brice, French actor
February 6 - Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
February 9 - Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d.2005)
February 10 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
February 13 - Omar Torrijos, Panamanian ruler (d. 1981)
February 14 - Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)
February 15 - Graham Hill, English race car driver (d. 1975)
February 15 - James Schlesinger, American politician
February 16 - Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (d. 1980)
February 17 - Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player
February 17 - Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002)
February 17 - Patricia Routledge, English actress
February 18 - Len Deighton, British author
February 18 - André Mathieu, Quebec composer (d. 1968)
February 19 - Jacques Deray, French film director (d. 2003)
February 20 - Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
February 21 - Roberto "Chespirito" Carlos Bolaños, Mexican actor
February 21 - James Beck, English actor (d. 1973)
February 22 - James Hong, American actor
February 22 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
February 23 - Elston Howard, American Baseball Player
February 25 - Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983)
February 25 - Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (d. 2007)
February 27 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
February 27 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)
February 28 - Hayden Fry, American football coach
February 28 - Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect
February 28 - John Montague, Irish poet
February 28 - Joseph Rouleau, French Canadian bass opera singer
March 1 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
March 4 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
March 4 - Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
March 5 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
March 9 - Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
March 11 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
March 12 - U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist
March 13 - Peter Breck, American actor
March 15 - Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist
March 16 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
March 18 - John Macurdy, American bass
March 20 - Germán Robles, Spanish actor
March 21 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
March 23 - Sir Roger Bannister, English runner
March 25 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
March 26 - Edwin Turney, American businessman
March 26 - Tom Foley, American politician
March 28 - Paul England, Australian racing driver
March 29 - Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)
March 29 - Richard Lewontin, American biologist
March 29 - Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
March 30 - Richard Dysart, American actor
March 31 - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007)
March 31 - Bertram Fields, American lawyer
April 1 - Milan Kundera, Czech-born writer
April 1 - Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator
April 1 - Jane Powell, American dancer
April 1 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
April 3 - Lee Leonard, American television personality
April 5 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (d. 2008)
April 5 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist
April 5 - Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (d. 2001)
April 5 - Joe Meek, English record producer
April 6 - Joi Lansing, American model and actress (d. 1972)
April 6 - André Previn, German-born composer and conductor
April 7 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
April 8 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)
April 8 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)
April 8 - Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (d. 1996)
April 10 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (d. 1959)
April 10 - Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
April 14 - Gerry Anderson, English television producer
April 16 - Roy Hamilton, American singer (d. 1969)
April 16 - Ed Townsend, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
April 17 - James Last, German band leader
April 17 - Peggy McKercher, 11th Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan)
April 24 - Dr.Rajkumar, Kannada actor
April 25 - Yvette Williams First New Zealander to go to Olympics,
April 26 - Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
April 29 - Ray Baretto, American jazz musician (d. 2006)
April 29 - Walter Kempowski, German author (d. 2007)
April 29 - Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)
April 29 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer
May 1 - Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician
May 1 - Sonny James, American country music singer and songwriter
May 2 - Link Wray, American guitarist (d. 2005)
May 4 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993)
May 4 - Sidney Lamb, American linguist
May 6 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist
May 7 - Babe Parilli, American football player
May 7 - Dick Williams, American baseball player
May 8 - Claude Castonguay, Quebec politician
May 8 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born Academy Award-winning actress (d. 2007)
May 9 - Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
May 10 - Antonine Maillet, French Canadian novelist and playwright
May 12 - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player
May 12 - Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia
May 14 - Henry McGee, straight man to Benny Hill (d. 2006)
May 14 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
May 14 - Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
May 16 - John Conyers, American politician
May 16 - Claude Morin, French Canadian politician
May 16 - Adrienne Rich, American writer
May 18 - Jack Sanford, American baseball player (d. 2000)
May 19 - John Stroger Chicago politician,
May 23 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
May 25 - Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
May 25 - Warren Frost, American actor
June 2 - Norton Juster, American author and architect
June 2 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player
June 3 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
June 3 - Chuck Barris, American game show host
June 4 - Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician
June 6 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
June 7 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada
June 7 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager (d. 1983)
June 9 - Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
June 10 - Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
June 10 - Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
June 10 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist
June 12 - Brigid Brophy, British writer
June 12 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
June 13 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
June 14 - Cy Coleman, American composer (d. 2004)
June 16 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
June 16 - Pauline Yates, English actress
June 17 - Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)
June 18 - Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
June 19 - Thelma Barlow, English actress
June 21 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
June 21 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
June 23 - June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
June 25 - Eric Carle, American author
June 26 - Milton Glaser, American Designer
June 27 - William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)
June 29 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
June 29 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
June 30 - James Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 1998)
June 30 - Hans Krondahl, Swedish painter and textile designer
July 1 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist
July 2 - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
July 2 - John A. Cade, American politician
July 4 - Al Davis, American businessman
July 4 - Chuck Tanner, American baseball player
July 4 - Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)
July 7 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
July 9 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
July 9 - Lee Hazlewood, American country singer
July 9 - Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolinist
July 10 - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
July 11 - David Kelly, Irish actor
July 11 - Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
July 13 - Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2006)
July 15 - Charles Anthony, American tenor
July 17 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
July 18 - Dick Button, American figure skater
July 18 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American singer (d. 2000)
July 20 - Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive
July 20 - Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
July 21 - Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
July 22 - John Barber, British racing driver
July 24 - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricketer
July 25 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
July 25 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
July 26 - Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
July 26 - Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist
July 27 - Jack Higgins, British novelist
July 28 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
July 29 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
July 30 - Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer
July 31 - Don Murray, American actor
July 31 - José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
August 1 - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (d. 2006)
August 4 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
August 6 - Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
August 7 - Don Larsen, American baseball player
August 8 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
August 8 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
August 12 - Buck Owens, American singer (d. 2006)
August 14 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
August 16 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (d. 1980)
August 16 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
August 16 - Wyatt Tee Walker, American 1950s and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
August 16 - Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
August 17 - Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
August 18 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
August 21 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
August 21 - Marie Severin, American comic book artist and colorist
August 23 - Vera Miles, American actress
August 24 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
August 27 - Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
August 28 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
August 28 - Ken Gampu, South African actor (d. 2003)
August 29 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
September 1 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
September 2 - Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
September 3 - Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)
September 4 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007)
September 5 - Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
September 5 - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
September 6 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
September 8 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
September 8 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958
September 9 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
September 10 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer
September 13 - Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)
September 14 - Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
September 14 - Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
September 15 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
September 15 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist
September 17 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
September 17 - Pat Crowley, American actress
September 18 - Nancy Littlefield, American film producer (d. 2007)
September 20 - Anne Meara, American comic and actress
September 21 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
September 21 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
September 22 - Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
September 23 - Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997)
September 24 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
September 25 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
September 25 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
September 28 - Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
October 1 - Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby league identity
October 2 - Howard Roberts, American Jazz Guitarist
October 2 - Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993)
October 2 - Cesare Maestri, Italian climber
October 3 - Bert Stern, American photographer
October 4 - Scotty Beckett, American child actor
October 4 - Leroy Van Dyke, American singer
October 5 - Fred Feast, English actor (d. 1999)
October 5 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
October 7 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
October 7 - Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive
October 8 - Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)
October 11 - Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
October 12 - Robert Coles, American psychologist and author
October 12 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic television presenter (d. 2007)
October 14 - Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
October 16 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
October 18 - Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
October 21 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American author
October 22 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
October 22 - Dory Previn, American songwriter
October 24 - George Crumb, American composer
October 24 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004)
October 24 - Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
October 26 - Neal Matthews, Jr.
October 27 - Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
October 28 - Joan Plowright, British actress
October 28 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
October 28 - John Hollander, American poet
October 31 - Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (d. 2004)
October 31 - Bud Spencer, Italian actor
November 1 - Betsy Palmer, American actress
November 1 - Nicholas Mavroules, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (d. 2003)
November 2 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
November 2 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist
November 4 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987)
November 7 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian neuroscientist
November 7 - Jesús de Polanco, Spanish businessman and media tycoon (d. 2007)
November 8 - António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
November 8 - Bobby Bowden, American football coach
November 9 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
November 9 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer
November 10 - Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
November 11 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
November 11 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
November 12 - Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995)
November 12 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American Actress
November 13 - Fred Phelps, American pastor
November 14 - Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player
November 15 - Ed Asner, American actor
November 17 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
November 19 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
November 19 - Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
November 20 - Don January, American professional golfer
November 21 - Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist
November 21 - Marilyn French, American feminist writer
November 22 - Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
November 23 - Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
November 28 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner
November 29 - Jackie Stallone, mother of Sylvester Stallone
November 30 - Dick Clark, American television host
November 30 - Joan Ganz Cooney, American children's television pioneer
December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
December 6 - Frank Springer, American comics artist
December 6 - Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker
December 9 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
December 9 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
December 12 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
December 12 - John Osborne, English dramatist (d. 1994)
December 13 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
December 15 - Barry Harris, American bebop jazz pianist
December 16 - Nicholas Courtney, English actor
December 17 - Jacqueline Hill, English actress (d. 1993)
December 17 - William Safire, American columnist
December 18 - Gino Cimoli, American baseball player
December 19 - Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician
December 19 - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
December 23 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
December 23 - Dick Weber, American professional tenpin bowler (d. 2005)
December 25 - Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter
December 25 - Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (d. 1976)
December 26 - Régine, French singer and nightclub owner
December 28 - Brian Redhead, British journalist (d. 1994)
December 28 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (d. 1970)
December 30 - Rosalind Hurley, British physician
December 30 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)

Deaths

January 13 - Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)
January 13 - H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
January 19 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
January 30 - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
February 3 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
February 8 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
February 12 - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
February 14 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
February 24 - André Messager, French composer and conductor (b. 1853)
February 28 - Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874)
March 1 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
March 5 - David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
March 12 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
March 20 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
March 26 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
March 28 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
April 4 - Karl Benz, German engine designer
April 22 - Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
May 11 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
May 21 - Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
June 4 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
June 8 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
June 16 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
June 28 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
July 2 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
July 5 - Henry Lincoln Johnson, Member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters)
July 11 - Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
July 15 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
August 1 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
August 2 - Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
August 3 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
August 3 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
August 5 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847)
August 10 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
August 19 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
September 12 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
September 23 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist
September 25 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
October 3 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
October 3 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany
October 28 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
October 31 - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
November 3 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
November 6 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
November 17 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
November 24 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
December 12 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
December 17 - Manuel Gomes da Costa, 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
December 20 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (b.1838)
December 29 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)

Events

January 1 - The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
January 2 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
January 6 - King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura).
January 6 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
January 17 - Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
January 20 - In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking film filmed outdoors, is released.
January 31 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
February 10 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
February 11 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
February 14 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
February 18 - The first Academy Awards are announced.
February 26 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.
March 4 - Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President.
April 3 - RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
April 8 - Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
May 14 - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
May 15 - A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
May 16 - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
May 23 - The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
July 15 - First weekly radio broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
July 20 - Soviet troops attempt to cross the Amur River into Manchuria near Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China.
July 23 - The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
July 24 - 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).
August 8 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
August 11 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
August 23 - Hebron Massacre: Arab attack of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine resulted in 133 Jews killed, 67 in Hebron.
August 24 - Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.
August 24 - Riots in Palestine of 1929: 18 Jews in Safed, 67 in Hebron, and 22 in Jerusalem killed by Arab Palestinians.
September 3 - Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time (381.17), which was shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
September 7 - Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives were lost.
September 25 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
October 3 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
October 11 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
October 18 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
October 23 - 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.
October 23 - The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
October 24 - "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
October 28 - Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
October 29 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
October 30 - The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
November 7 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
November 18 - 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 area.
November 28 - Ernie Nevers of the then Chicago Cardinals scores all the points in this game as the Cardinals defeat the Chicago Bears 40-6.
November 29 - U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
December 3 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to the 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 24 - Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
December 28 - "Black Saturday" in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.

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