1929

1929 in pop culture:

Films:

Music:
 * Man with a Movie Camera
 * Diary of a Lost Girl
 * Pandora's Box
 * Un Chien Andalou
 * Big Business
 * Queen Kelly
 * Arsenal
 * Woman in the Moon
 * The General Line
 * Rain
 * The Love Parade
 * Blackmail
 * The Cocoanuts
 * Double Whoopee
 * Hallelujah!
 * H2O
 * The White Hell of Pitz Palu
 * Perfect Day
 * Unaccustomed As We Are
 * St. Louis Blues
 * The Iron Mask
 * The Manxman
 * The Broadway Melody
 * Applause
 * The Kiss
 * Bacon Grabbers
 * Eternal Love
 * Pour vos beaux yeux
 * Thunderbolt
 * Their Own Desire
 * The Mysterious Island
 * The Hollywood Revue of 1929
 * Coquette
 * Atlantic
 * The Canary Murder Case
 * The Divine Lady
 * The Duke Steps Out
 * The Flying Fleet
 * High Voltage
 * Lambchops
 * The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
 * Our Modern Maidens
 * The Pagan
 * The Racketeer
 * The Saturday Night Kid
 * The Taming of The Shrew
 * The Trial of Mary Dugan

Singles: Literature:
 * Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Bessie Smith
 * The Duke Steps Out Duke Ellington
 * One Hour Coleman Hawkins
 * Ozark Mountain Blues The Missourians
 * Too Late King Oliver & His Orchestra
 * Lookin' Good But Feelin' Bad Fats Waller & His Buddies
 * Am I Blue? Ethel Waters
 * I'm Gonna Stomp Mr Henry Lee Eddie Condon's Hot Shots
 * The Cabaret Boys Douglas Byng
 * It Should Be You Red Allen
 * Everybody Loves My Baby Earl Hines Orchestra
 * New Orleans Bump Jelly Roll Morton
 * Frankie and Johnny Jimmie Rodgers
 * Haunted Nights Duke Ellington
 * Hello Lola Mound City Blue Blowers
 * I Need Someone Like You The Four Wanderers
 * What Are They Doing in Heaven Today Washington Phillips
 * March of the Hoodlums Hoagy Carmichael
 * I'm Wild About That Thing Bessie Smith
 * I Must Have That Man Sam Browne

Books released Art: Architecture:
 * A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
 * The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
 * Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
 * Tintin in the land of the Soviets Hergé
 * Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin
 * The Silver Key H.P. Lovecraft
 * Was ist Metaphysik? Martin Heidegger
 * January 17 – First appearance of E. C. Segar's American sailor comic book hero Popeye in Thimble Theatre.
 * November 7 – The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City. An exhibit, "Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat and van Gogh", at the new museum attracts 47,000 visitors.
 * Cercle et Carré group of abstract artists founded in Paris by Joaquin Torres Garcia and Michel Seuphor.
 * The Barcelona chair is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Buildings opened


 * July 23 - Landakotskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Buildings completed Science:
 * October - Dominion Theatre, London, UK.
 * The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
 * Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Avation Mathematics Medicine Physics Sport
 * August 8–29 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight.
 * December 16 – The British airship R100 makes its maiden flight, incorporating Barnes Wallis' pioneering use of a geodetic airframe.
 * Kurt Gödel proves his completeness theorem.
 * Alexander Fleming publishes an article about penicillin in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, for which he will receive the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
 * Hans Berger discovers human electroencephalography.
 * Robert J. Van de Graaff develops the Van de Graaff generator.
 * Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg develop the quantum theory of ferromagnetism.
 * Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, for which he will receive the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics.

American football

 * Green Bay Packers wins National Football League title
 * Rose Bowl (1928 season):
 * The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets won 8-7 over the California Golden Bears to share the college football national championship
 * Notre Dame Fighting Irish – college football national championship
 * 28 November – Ernie Nevers scores 6 rushing touchdowns for Chicago Cardinals against Chicago Bears

Association football

 * England
 * The Football League – Sheffield Wednesday 52 points, Leicester City 51, Aston Villa 50, Sunderland 47, Liverpool 46, Derby County 46
 * FA Cup final – Bolton Wanderers 2–0 Portsmouth at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
 * Germany
 * National Championship – SpVgg Fürth 3–2 Hertha BSC at Nuremberg

Australian rules football

 * VFL Premiership
 * Collingwood achieves the only perfect home-and-away season in VFL/AFL history, but lose the second semi-final to Richmond 8.13 (61) to 18.15 (123)
 * Collingwood wins the 33rd VFL Premiership, beating Richmond 11.13 (79) to 7.8 (50) in the *1929 VFL Grand Final.
 * Brownlow Medal
 * The annual Brownlow Medal is awarded to Albert Collier (Collingwood)

Bandy

 * Sweden
 * Championship final – IF Göta 5-1 Västerås SK

Baseball

 * World Series
 * 8–14 October — Philadelphia Athletics (AL) defeat Chicago Cubs (NL) to win the 1929 World Series by 4 games to 1

Basketball

 * ABL Championship
 * Cleveland Rosenblums win four games to none over the Fort Wayne Hoosiers

Boxing

 * Events
 * September — having successfully defended the World Light Heavyweight Championship this year against both Mickey Walker and James J. Braddock, Tommy Loughran relinquishes the title to fight as a heavyweight
 * Lineal world champions
 * World Heavyweight Championship – vacant
 * World Light Heavyweight Championship – Tommy Loughran → vacant
 * World Middleweight Championship – Mickey Walker
 * World Welterweight Championship – Joe Dundee → Jackie Fields
 * World Lightweight Championship – Sammy Mandell
 * World Featherweight Championship – Andre Routis → Bat Battalino
 * World Bantamweight Championship – vacant → "Panama" Al Brown
 * World Flyweight Championship – vacant