December 1929 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1929 Game of BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe.
• 03 Dec 1929 Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak
• 05 Dec 1929 First US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City, New York).
• 06 Dec 1929 Turkey introduces female suffrage.
• 07 Dec 1929 Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament.
• 14 Dec 1929 Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece.
• 15 Dec 1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
• 16 Dec 1929 Chicago Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1
• 20 Dec 1929 Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park
• 21 Dec 1929 1st group hospital insurance plan offered
• 24 Dec 1929 Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipolito Yrigoyen.
• 28 Dec 1929 quotBlack Saturdayquot in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.ref name=quotMeleisea, Malama 1987, pp.137-8quotMeleisea, Malama, ''Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa'', 1987, ISBN 982-02-0029-6, pp.137–8
• 29 Dec 1929 The All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence.
• 30 Dec 1929 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
• 31 Dec 1929 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri

Famous Birthday

• Christopher Plummer

  Canadian actor.

• John Cassavetes

  American actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at age 59 (born 1929).

• Philippe Bouvard

  French journalist, TV host and presenter born to an Alsatian jewish mother and to Marcel Bouvard who left his family.

• Chet Baker

  Jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59.

• Régine (French artist)
• Gérard de Villiers
• Bob Hawke

  Australian Labor Party Leader who was sworn in as Prime Minister on 3/11/1983, succeeding John Malcolm Fraser.

• Francesco Alberoni

  Italian writer.

• André Lajoinie

  French politician, who is a member of the French Communist Party (PCF).

• Raymond Séguy
• Richard Eberling

  American transvestite, burglar, forger, alleged murderer, who had a window washing business.

• Roger Muhl

  Strasbourg Painters.

• Jean Cournut

  French psychiatrist, a full member and one-time president of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society.

• Noël Copin
• Goffredo Parise

  Italian writer who won prizes and awards for his work in 1965, 1982 and 1983.

• John Osborne

  England, United Kingdom -- Playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964).

• Maurice Fanon

  French actor, musician, singer, and composer.

• Jean-Marie Magnan
• Will Noffke

  American radio personality and editor of Shared Visions newsletter.

• Alfred Moisiu
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Famous Deaths

• Knut Algot Hakanson

  Composer, dies at 42.

• Manuel Gomes da Costa

  Portuguese politician (Born 1863).

• Wilhelm Maybach

  German engineer and industrialist who was the chief designer of the first Mercedes automobiles (1900–01).

• Emile Loubet

  French premier (1892)/President (1899-1906), dies at age 90.

• Charles Goodnight

  American rancher and soldier (d. 1929).

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Top #2 songs in the USA

1. Roy Ingraham & His Orchestra - Chant of the Jungle
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