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Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Jacob W. Graybill (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James Breathitt Jr. (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Paul N. Cyr (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Frank G. Allen (Republican) (until January 3), William S. Youngman (political party unknown) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: William I. Nolan (Republican) (until June 25), Charles Edward Adams (Republican) (starting June 25)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Philip Allen Bennett (Republican) (until January 14), Edward Henry Winter (Republican) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana: W. S. McCormack (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Frank A. Hazelbaker (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Morley Griswold (Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico:
until January 1: Edward G. Sargent (Republican)
January 1-July: (Republican)
starting July: vacant
Lieutenant Governor of New York: vacant (until January 1), Herbert H. Lehman (Democratic) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Jacob E. Long (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Richard T. Fountain (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: vacant (until January 9), John W. Carr (Republican) (starting January 9)
March 4: Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st U.S. President
Charles Curtis becomes the 31st U.S. Vice President
January 1 – In college football, California loses to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in the 27th Rose Bowl by a score of 8–7.
January 29 – The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train guide dogs to assist the blind, by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank in Nashville, Tennessee.
February 26 – The Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is established by Congress.
March 2 – The longest bridge in the world, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.
March 4 – Herbert Hoover is sworn in as the 31st President of the United States, and Charles Curtis is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
March 16 – A part-talkie film version of Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel rather than the musical, premieres in Palm Beach (starring Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut). It is critically panned and not successful at the box office.
April–June[]
April 2-6 – The Bombing of Naco by Irish pilot Patrick Murphy, the first aerial assault on the United States by a foreign combatant
May 13 – The National Crime Syndicate is founded in Atlantic City.
May 15 – Cleveland Clinic Fire of 1929
A leak and explosion of methyl chloride refrigerant in a Cleveland hospital kills one hundred and twenty-eight and becomes regarded as the catalyst for the development of chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants.[2]
May 16 – The 1st Academy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California, with William A. Wellman's Wings winning Academy Award for Best Picture. Joseph W. Farnham wins the only award ever given for Best Writing, Title Writing. Frank Borzage's 7th Heaven received the most nominations with five, while both it and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise jointly received the most awards with three.
May 17 – Al Capone and his bodyguard are arrested for concealing deadly weapons.[3]
May 20 – The Wickersham Commission begins its investigation of alcohol prohibition in the United States.
May 27 – United States v. Schwimmer decided in the Supreme Court affirms that pacifism is sufficient ground to deny an applicant citizenship of the United States.
June 12 – Lou Hoover has tea at the White House with Jessie De Priest, wife of Oscar De Priest, the first black congressman of the 20th century.
June 16 – Otto E. Funk, 62, ends his marathon walk (New York City to San Francisco, 4,165 miles in 183 days).
June 21 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
June 27 – The first public demonstration of color television is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington, D.C.
July–September[]
August 11 – The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest US African-American parade, is held in Chicago.
August 19 – The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut, starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
August 31 – The Young Plan, which sets the total World War I reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized.
September 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) peaks at 381.17, a height it will not reach again until November 1954.
October–December[]
October 24: Wall Street Crash of 1929
October 11 – J. C. Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with department stores in all 48 states.
October 14 – The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series Title.
October 24–October 29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
October 24 – The Mount Hope Bridge, connecting Portsmouth to Bristol in Rhode Island, opens to traffic.
October 25 – Former U.S. Interior SecretaryAlbert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.
November 7 – The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opens to the public.
November 15 – The Ambassador Bridge, connecting Detroit, Michigan, to Windsor, Ontario, opens to traffic.
November 29 – Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley, and Harold June, become the first to fly over the South Pole.
December 3 – Great Depression: U.S. President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation, and that the American people have regained faith in the economy.
Undated[]
Sunglasses mass-produced from celluloid are first made by Foster Grant for sale in Austin Texas
Sport[]
March 29 - For the first time in Stanley Cup history two American teams face off for hockey's ultimate prize when the Boston Bruins defeat the New York Rangers 2 games to 0 for the Bruins first Stanley Cup victory. The deciding game is played in New York City's Madison Square Garden.
Births[]
January[]
Martin Luther King Jr.
January 1 – Joseph Lombardo, American mafioso (d. 2019)
January 2
Marilyn Lloyd, American politician and businesswoman (d. 2018)
Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur and benefactor
January 5
Wilbert Harrison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994)
Robert K. Massie, American journalist and historian (d. 2019)
January 9 – Tom Riley, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
January 13 – Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
January 14 – Billy Walker, American country music singer (d. 2006)
January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
January 17
Eilaine Roth, American professional baseball player (d. 2011)
Elaine Roth, American professional baseball player (d. 2007)
January 19 – Red Amick, American race car driver (d. 1995)
January 20
January 20
Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer (d. 2020)
Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (d. 2019)
Frank Kush, American football player and coach (d. 2017)
January 27 – Richard Ottinger, American politician
February[]
Vic Morrow
James Hong
February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American film, television actor (d. 2020)
February 2 – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (d. 2015)
February 3 – Huntington Hardisty, American admiral (d. 2003)
^Stange, Mary Zeiss; Oyster, Carol K.; Sloan, Jane E. (2011-02-23). Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. SAGE Publications. p. 1344. ISBN9781412976855. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
^Chase's calendar of events. the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 2019. p. 444. ISBN9781641433167.
^Chase's calendar of events 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months. Place of publication not identified: Bernan Press. 2018. p. 450. ISBN9781641432641.