Timeline January 1929

Events in January 1929 13

• 1848 – 1929 Wyatt Earp (1848-1929) Died 13 January 1929, aged 80 American lawman and gambler of the Old West. He is best known for the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and died in Los Angeles.
• 1873 – 1929 Liang Qichao (1873-1929) Died 19 January 1929, aged 55 Chinese scholar, journalist and reformer and a leader of the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform. His writings shaped modern Chinese nationalism and political thought.
• 1927 – 1929 Posted to India Karachi and Miranshah Two years at remote airfields, partly to get him out of the newspapers. Rumours that he was spying in Afghanistan brought him home again.
• 1929 Australian Open 1929 Men: John Gregory · Women: Daphne Akhurst Cozens Akhurst Cozens' 4th title.
• 1929 – 1989 Sergio Leone (1929-1989) Died 30 April 1989, aged 60 Sergio Leone was an Italian film director who pioneered the Spaghetti Western genre with films including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. His operatic visual style and collaborations with composer Ennio Morricone influenced generations of filmmakers. Once Upon a Time in America was his final completed film.
• 1929 King Alexander proclaims royal dictatorship The 6 January Dictatorship in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes King Alexander I suspended the constitution, dissolved parliament and banned political parties after the shooting of Croatian deputies in the assembly in 1928. On 3 October he renamed the state the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• 1929 Tintin makes his first appearance Hergé's reporter debuts in Le Petit Vingtième Hergé's Tintin in the Land of the Soviets began serialisation in Le Petit Vingtième, the children's supplement of the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. The young reporter and his dog Snowy went on to star in one of the best-selling comic series in the world.
• 1929 Amanullah Khan abdicates Afghan reforming king forced out by revolt Facing a rebellion against his modernising reforms, King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan abdicated and later went into exile in Italy. Habibullah Kalakani seized Kabul, but Mohammed Nadir Shah took the city in October and became king.
• 1929 – 1968 Martin Luther King Civil rights leader Dr. King led the American civil rights movement, delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech and winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
• 1929 Popeye first appears in print The sailor joins the Thimble Theatre comic strip E. C. Segar introduced Popeye the Sailor into his newspaper comic strip Thimble Theatre, which was syndicated by King Features. The character quickly became the strip's star and later a major animated cartoon franchise.
• 1929 All Quiet on the Western Front published as a book Remarque's anti-war novel appears in Germany Erich Maria Remarque's novel Im Westen nichts Neues was published in book form after newspaper serialisation in 1928. It sold millions of copies in many languages within months. The Nazis later banned and burned it.
• 1929 – 2010 Jean Simmons (1929-2010) British actress who went from Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet to Hollywood epics like The Robe and Spartacus.
• 1929 Jean Simmons born in London Jean Simmons is born in London.