Timeline December 1929

Events in December 1929 8

• 1846 – 1929 Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929) Died 29 December 1929, aged 83 German engine designer and a partner of Gottlieb Daimler. He designed the first Mercedes car of 1901 and founded the Maybach engine company.
• 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict over the Chinese Eastern Railway Soviet forces defeat Chinese troops in Manchuria Chinese authorities in Manchuria seized the Soviet-managed Chinese Eastern Railway, which led to fighting along the border. The Soviet Special Far Eastern Army under Vasily Blyukher won decisively, and the Khabarovsk Protocol restored joint Soviet control of the line.
• 1929 – 1989 John Cassavetes (1929-1989) American actor and director, a pioneer of American independent film.
• 1929 John Cassavetes born in New York John Cassavetes is born in New York.
• 1929 – 1988 Chet Baker Chesney Henry Baker (23 December 1929 -- 13 May 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose cool, lyrical playing and vulnerable, intimate singing made him one of the most distinctive voices in jazz history. He rose to fame almost overnight in 1952 playing with Charlie Parker and then with Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet, whose recording of 'My Funny Valentine' became one of the most celebrated in jazz. Baker's beauty -- often compared to James Dean -- made him a cultural icon as much as a musician. His life was ravaged by heroin addiction: he lost his teeth, served prison time in Italy, disappeared for years and made a series of miraculous comebacks. He died in 1988 falling from an Amsterdam hotel window. He was 58.
• 1929 Chet Baker born in Yale, Oklahoma Chesney Henry Baker is born on 23 December 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma. The family moves to Glendale, California in 1940. His father plays guitar and banjo and encourages his musical interest. Chet begins on trombone at school before switching to trumpet at thirteen. He is largely self-taught -- he learns to read music only partially and relies throughout his career on an extraordinarily acute ear and a natural physical command of the trumpet that formal training cannot entirely explain.
• 1929 Stalin calls for the liquidation of the kulaks as a class Start of forced collectivisation and dekulakisation In a speech to Marxist agrarian scholars, Stalin announced a policy of eliminating the kulaks as a class. Mass deportations and forced collectivisation of Soviet agriculture followed and contributed to the famine of 1932-33.
• 1929 Indian National Congress raises the flag of Purna Swaraj Congress commits to full independence at Lahore At its Lahore session under Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian National Congress adopted complete independence from Britain as its goal. Nehru raised the flag on the banks of the Ravi, and 26 January 1930 was set as Independence Day.