| 10th January 1929 | “Tintin“, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He goes on to be published in over 200 million comic books and sixty different languages. |
| 13th January 1929 | Wyatt Earp, gunfighter and iconic figure in American folklore (b. 1848) dies. |
| 15th January 1929 | Birth of Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968). |
| 17th January 1929 | “Popeye“, a comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, makes his debut. |
| 14th February 1929 | St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven North Side Irish gangsters and rivals of Al Capone, are murdered in Chicago. |
| 4th March 1929 | Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge. |
| 23rd March 1929 | Birth of Sir Roger Bannister, British athlete. |
| 14th May 1929 | Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4,000th first-class wicket during a stunning performance of nine for thirty-nine at Leyton. |
| 31st May 1929 | The British general election returns a hung parliament; the Liberals will determine who has power. |
| 8th June 1929 | Ramsay MacDonald founds a new Labour government. |
| 25th July 1929 | Pope Pius XI emerges from the Vatican and enters St. Peter's square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 people. This ends nearly sixty years of papal self-imprisonment within the Vatican. |
| 8th August 1929 | The German airship ‘Graf Zeppelin’ begins an around-the-world flight that ends on 29th August. |
| 24th October 1929 | Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange, causing a financial crisis. |
| 1st November 1929 | An annular solar eclipse is seen around the world. |