1929

1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year beginning on a Tuesday, according to the Gregorian calendar.

This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash gave way to a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was negotiated to end the Cristero War, a Catholic counterrevolution in Mexico. The 1st edition of the Oscar Film Awards took place in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force is created.

In Asia, the ROC and the Soviet Union became involved in a minor conflict after the Chinese took full control of the Trans-Manchurian Railway, which ended with the resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph Stalin expelled Leon Trotsky and adopted a policy of collectivization. The Grand Trunk Express started operating in India. The riots between Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem over access to the Western Wall took place in the Middle East. Western Australia's centenary was celebrated. The Afghan civil war, which began in November of the previous year, continued until October.

The Briand-Kellogg Pact, a treaty that renounced war as an instrument of national policy, went into effect. In Europe, the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy signed the Lateran Treaty. The Idionymon law was passed in Greece to ban political dissent. Spain hosted the Ibero-American Exposition that featured pavilions from Latin American countries. The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin circumnavigated the world in 21 days.

Events

January

• January 1: In Nicaragua, José María Moncada of the Liberal Party assumes the presidency.
• January 6: In Yugoslavia Alexander I established the dictatorship in the country after suspending the constitution and disbanding the National Assembly.
• 7 January: in the United States Tarzan (from Harold Foster), one of the first adventure comics.
• January 8: U.S. occupation forces are withdrawn in Nicaragua.
• 10 January:
  • In Mexico the Cuban student Julio Antonio Mella, one of the communist leaders of his country, is mysteriously murdered.
  • In the newspaper Le XXme Siecle (Belgium) began to publish the comic “Tintin in the country of the Soviets, the first in which Tintin appeared, created by Hergé.
  • The first day of the first Spanish football league is played.
• 17 January: in the United States, in the edition of The New York Evening Journal For the first time, a comic strip of Popeye (from the comic King Features).
• 17 January: In the Venezuelan city of Cumaná there is an earthquake of 6.9 that produces a tsunami that leaves between 200 and 1600 dead.

February

• February 5: In Montjuich (Barcelona) an Iberian necropolis is discovered.
• 9 February:
  • The Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia conclude non-aggression agreements.
  • February 9, Mexico is executed José de León Toral, assassin of President Obregón.
• 11 February:
  • In the Soviet Union, the seven-hour working day is established.
  • Lateran Pact between the Holy See and Italy, creating the Vatican City.
• 13 February: In Venezuela they attack Venezuelan President Juan Vicente Gómez.
• 14 February:
  • In Chicago, the Valentine's Day massacre, ordered by Al Capone against a rival gang.
  • In Munich (Germany) the local authorities forbid that Joséphine Baker be present on stage by public indecency.
• 15 February:
  • In the United States the film is released The poisonous, played by Raquel Meller, Warwich Ward and Georges Marck.
  • In Germany the number of unemployed increases to 3,200,000.
• February 18: Trotski seeks political asylum in France and Germany, as his residence permit in Turkey will expire on May 1.
• February 21: The French government denies political asylum to Leon Trotski.
• 22 February:
  • In New York, Spanish boxer Paulino Uzcudun beats Cayo O. Christner.
  • In Venezuela General Emilio Arévalo Cedeño made a coup.

March

• 4 March:
  • In the United States, Republican Herbert Hoover took office as president.
  • In Mexico, the Revolutionary National Party (PNR) was founded by Plutarco Elías Calles, an predecessor of the current Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Pascual Ortiz Rubio was named as his first presidential candidate.
• 23 March: in Santa Fe (Argentina), the Paraná River reaches 6.55 meters high and floods the city.

April

• April 1: Mexico continues to fight between the federal troops of President Emilio Portes Gil and those of the rebel general Escobar.
• 7 April: in Spain, Armando Cotarelo takes over the position of regional academic of the Royal Spanish Academy.
• April 11: In Chile, the Prisons Gendarmerie Corps and the Carabineros Corps are merged.
• April 28: Ecuador founded the Sport Club Emelec.

May

• 1 May: the Archbishop of Asunción is created.
  • In Iran there is a 7.2 earthquake that leaves 3,800 dead.
• May 6: In the Soviet Union, Iosif Stalin comes to power after a long rise in the Politburo.
• May 9: The Ibero-American Exhibition of Seville is inaugurated in Spain.
• May 16: The first ceremony of the Oscars is held in the United States.
• 17 May: in Barcelona, Spain, the FIFA Congress is held, where the project of a world championship is studied.
• 20 May: the International Exhibition of Barcelona is inaugurated.

June

• June 3: in Lima, Chile and Peru sign a Treaty of Lima.
• 13 June: Three airmen (Assolant, Lefévre and Lotti) are the first French to cross the Atlantic from New York on board the Atlantic Oiseau Canari. It was the first flight to host a moth aboard.
• 21 June: After agreements between the Catholic Church and the Government of Mexico, the Cristera War came to an end, after three years of constant violent struggles.

July

• July 10: The University of Mexico gains its autonomy, and becomes the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

August

• 11 August:
  • The novel is published in Madrid Barbaraof the Venezuelan writer Rómulo Gallegos.
  • Expedition of the Falke, a military operation in Cumaná, Venezuela, organized by Venezuelan exiles in Europe and led by General Román Delgado Chalbaud, whose objective was to invade Venezuela and provoke a rebellion against the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. The operation resulted in the failure of the expedition.
• August 21: Mexican painter Diego Rivera, 42, marries the well-known painter Frida Kahlo. One of the most emblematic and stormy couples of the centuryXX.. "A marriage between an elephant and a dove"
• August 28: the city of Tacna, invaded by Chile since the Pacific War, officially returns to Peru.
• August 29: the German airliner "Graf Zeppelin LZ 127"complete your first flight around the world.
• August 31: The Hague conference on war repairs ends with the adoption of the Young Plan.

September

• September 1st: in Berlin, Germany, they attack with bombs against the Reichstag building.
• 5 September:
  • Aristide Briand, head of the French Government, proposes in the assembly of the League of Nations the constitution of the United States of Europe.
  • First HJN broadcast, first radio in Colombia.
• September 11th: crossing the Channel of the Blade, first flight of the autogiro, antecedent of the helicopter.
• September 12: In Paraguay the government orders the state of siege because of the emergence of a communist movement.
• 29 September: in Paraguay the former President Eligio Ayala resigns from the Liberal Party.

October

• 24 October:
  • In New York, Black Thursday (the fall of the New York Stock Exchange) marks the beginning of the Great Depression (crack of 29).
  • During the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, the province of Misamis was divided into two provinces, namely, Eastern Misamis and Western Misamis.

November

• November 1st: Argentina Begins the 12th edition of Copa América.
• 17 November: in Buenos Aires (Argentina) The Americas Cup ends and Argentina wins its Fourth American Cup.
• 18 November: In front of the southern coast of Newfoundland, there is a 7.2 earthquake that causes a tsunami.

December

• 5 December: the Soviet Union establishes the Soviet Socialist Republic of Tajikistan.
• 22 December:
  • In Germany the plebiscite organized by the extreme right against the Young plan fails.
  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
  • In the Soviet Union, under the guidance of Stalin, Leon Trotski is expelled from the country.
  • In Italy, Mussolini wins single-list elections.
• December 24: Mexico creates the Mexican Catholic Action.
• 31 December:
  • In India, the National Congress, inspired by Gandhi, declared itself in favour of the complete independence of India.
  • In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Raquel Líberman (1900-1935), a Russian woman victim of trafficking, denounces the Jewish-Polish organization Tsvi Migdal and manages to disarm it.

Births

January

• 2nd of January: Chacho Muller, composer and Argentine folklore interpreter (f. 2000).
• January 3: Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (f. 1989).
• January 3: Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer.
• January 3: Gordon E. Moore, Intel co-founder.
• January 5: Wilbert Harrison, American singer of rhythm and blues (f. 1994).
• January 9: Dorothea Puente, American serial killer (f. 2011).

Martin Luther King

• January 15: Martin Luther King, American activist (f. 1968).
• January 19: Antoni Gutiérrez, Spanish politician (f. 2006).
• January 25: Rafael Pi Belda, Spanish sculptor (f. 2012).
• January 28: Claes Oldenburg, Swedish and American artist (f.2022).
• January 30: Isamu Akasaki, a Japanese scientist (f. 2021).
• January 31: Jean Simmons, British actress (f. 2010).

February

• February 3: Evaristo Márquez Contreras, Spanish sculptor (f. 1996).
• February 7: Alma Rosa Aguirre, Mexican actress.
• 11 February: Pere Portabella, Spanish filmmaker and producer.
• February 14: Vic Morrow, American actor (f. 1982).
• February 15: Graham Hill, British Formula 1 pilot (f. 1975).
• 16 February: Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (f. 1980).
• 17 February: Javier Domínguez Martín-Sánchez, a Spanish religious and writer.
• 17 February: Rómulo Caicedo, Colombian singer of popular music (f. 2007).
• February 21: Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor and filmmaker (f. 2014).
• February 23: Queta Lavat, Mexican actress.
• February 27: Floria Bloise, an Argentine actress (f. 2012).
• February 27: Pedro León Zapata, painter, writer, cartoonist and Venezuelan humorist (f. 2015).
• February 27: Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (f. 2013).
• February 28: Frank Gehry, American architect of Canadian origin.

March

• March 5: J. B. Lenoir, American singer and guitarist of blues (f. 1967).
• March 9: Desmond Hoyte, a Guyanese politician, prime minister between 1984 and 1985, and president between 1985 and 1992 (f. 2002).
• March 8: Hebe Camargo, TV presenter, singer and Brazilian actress (f. 2012).
• March 9: Zillur Rahman, President Bangladeshi (f. 2013).
• March 9: Rubén Yáñez, actor, theatre director and Uruguayan professor (f. 2015).
• March 11: Ubaldo de Lío, guitarist and Argentine composer of tango (f. 2012).
• 13 March: Thea Segall, a Romanian photographer residing in Venezuela (f. 2009).
• March 20: Jolly Land, Argentinean singer (f. 2008).
• March 20: Germán Robles, Mexican actor of Spanish origin (f. 2015).
• March 24: Angela Gurría, Mexican sculptor.
• March 29: Richard Lewontin, American biologist and geneticist.(f.2021)
• March 29: U Win Tin, journalist and Burmese politician (f. 2014).
• March 31: Gene Puerling, vocal arranger and American singer (n. 2008).

April

• April 1: Milan Kundera, Czechoslovak writer.
• April 6: André Previn, American musician (f. 2019).
• April 8: Walter Berry, Austrian bas-bariton (f. 2000).
• April 9: Manuel Jiménez de Parga, Minister and President of the Constitutional Court (f. 2014).
• April 14: Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian president (f. 2012).
• April 17: James Last, German musician (f. 2015).
• April 25: José Ángel Valente, Spanish poet (f. 2000).
• April 28: Evangelina Elizondo, Mexican actress (f. 2017).

May

• 1 May: Ralf Dahrendorf, writer, critic and German-British politician (f. 2009).
• May 4: Manuel Contreras, a Chilean military and criminal (in life imprisonment) (f. 2015).
• 4 May: Audrey Hepburn, British actress (f. 1993).
• May 5: Ilene Woods, American actress (f. 2010).
• May 8: Girija Devi, Indian singer (f. 2017).
• May 8: Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress and singer (f. 2007).
• May 12: Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician.
• May 17: Mélida Anaya Montes, a Salvadoran politician and guerrilla (f. 1983).
• 17 May: Piet Wijn, Dutch historietist (f. 2010).
• May 19: Estela Raval, Argentinean singer (f. 2012).
• May 30: Nélida Roca, actress and vedette argentina (f. 1999).
• May 31: Jorge Ricardo Masetti, guerrilla and Argentine journalist (f. 1964).

June

• 4 June: Karolos Papulias, Greek President.(f.2021)
• June 6: Jorge Villamil, Colombian composer (f. 2010).
• June 7: John Napier Turner, Canadian Prime Minister (f. 2020).
• June 9: Oscar Núñez, actor and theatrical director of Argentina (f. 2012).
• June 11: Antonio Pujia, Argentine sculptor (f. 2018).
• June 12: Anne Frank, German writer (f. 1945).
• June 13: Paco Camoiras, Spanish actor.(f.2018)
• June 17: Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (f. 1984).
• June 18: Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist.
• June 21: Chela Castro, an Argentine actress (f. 2014).
• June 23: Richard Bach, American writer.
• June 23: Mario Ghella, Italian sportsman.
• June 29: Pat Crawford Brown, American actress (f. 2019).
• June 29: Oriana Fallaci, Italian writer and journalist (f. 2006).
• June 30: Eddy Gaytán, accordionist, composer, musical producer and Argentine-Cuban arranger (f. 1999).

July

• 2 July: Imelda Marcos, Filipino politics, former first lady of the Philippines.
• July 4: Darío Castrillón Hoyos, arzobispo colombiano (f. 2018).
• 9 July: Hassan II, King of Maruecos (f. 1999).
• July 9: Isabel Sarli, actress and vedette argentina (f. 2019).
• July 10: Chi Haotian, Chinese military and political.
• 10 July: José Vicente Rangel, politician, lawyer and Venezuelan journalist, Vice President of Venezuela between 2002 and 2007 (f. 2020).

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

• July 28: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of American President John F. Kennedy (f. 1994).
• July 29: Mikel Scicluna, Maltese professional fighter (f. 2010).
• July 31: José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer.

August

• August 1st: Íñigo Cavero Lataillade, politician and Spanish jurist (f. 2002).
• August 2: José Afonso, Portuguese composer and musician (f. 1987).
• August 3: Leonor Llausás, Mexican actress (f. 2003).
• August 5: Abel Aguilar Elizalde, Mexican football referee.
• August 7: Carlos Martínez Sotomayor, lawyer, diplomat and Chilean politician (f. 2006).
• August 8: José Luis Borau, Spanish filmmaker and member of the Royal Spanish Academy (f. 2012).
• August 8: Josef Suk, Czech violinist (f. 2011).
• August 9: Hipólito Atilio López, an Argentine politician (f. 1974).
• August 9: Pedro Orgambide, an Argentine writer and writer (f. 2003).
• August 20: Yolanda Mérida, Mexican actress (f. 2012).
• August 23: Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (f. 1997).
• August 23: Vera Miles, American actress.
• August 24: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian politician (f. 2004).
• August 27: Ira Levin, American writer (f. 2007).
• August 29: Erwin López Bohórquez, muralist, painter, sculptor and Colombian stage designer (f. 2011).
• August 31: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (f. 1994).

September

• 2 September: Hal Ashby, American filmmaker (f. 1988).
• September 5: Susana Freyre, Argentine actress.
• September 10: Arnold Palmer, American golfer (f. 2016).
• September 11: Luis "Camaleón" García, Venezuelan baseball player (f. 2014).
• September 14: Larry Collins, American writer (f. 2005).
• September 15: Rosa Helena "La Nena" Jiménez, Colombian humorist (f. 2011).
• 17 September: Stirling Moss, British Formula 1 pilot (f. 2020).
• September 18: Ismenia Villalba, Venezuelan policy (f. 2009).
• September 21: Héctor Alterio, an Argentine actor, is Spain.
• September 21: Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (f. 1979).
• 21 September: Cipe Lincovsky, an Argentine actress (f. 2015).
• 21 September: Bernard Williams, British philosopher (f. 2003).

October

• October 5: Yuri Artsutánov, Russian aerospace engineer (f. 2019).
• October 9: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Mexican actress.
• October 11: Luis Banchero Rossi, Peruvian businessman (f. 1972).
• October 13: Paquita Rico, Spanish singer and actress (f. 2017).
• 13 October: Walasse Ting, Chinese American painter (f. 2010).
• October 16: Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress.
• October 17: Amparo Garrido Arozamena, Mexican actress.
• October 18: Violeta Chamorro, a politician and president of Nicaragua between 1990 and 1997.
• October 20: Herminio Iglesias, leader and politician of Argentina (f. 2007).
• October 20: Horacio Malvicino, Argentine guitarist.
• October 21: Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer (f. 2018).
• October 21: Héctor Tizón, Argentine writer (f. 2012).
• 21 October: George Stinney, a resident of South Carolina (f. 1944).
• October 22: Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (f. 1990).
• October 23: Lucho Alarcón, Chilean actor.
• October 24: Joan Plowright, British actress.
• October 24: Yordan Radíchkov, Bulgarian writer (f. 2004).
• October 24: Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (f. 2006).
• October 25: Eva Blanco, Actriz Venezolana
• October 26: Cleofé Elsa Calderón, botanical Argentina (f. 2007).
• October 28: Juan Gallardo Muñoz, Spanish writer (f. 2013).
• October 30: Eduardo Davidson, Cuban singer (f. 1994).
• October 31: Luis Feito, a Spanish painter (f. 2021).
• October 31st: Bud Spencer, Italian actor and swimmer (f. 2016).

November

• 4 November: Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, Famoso Payaso Español, Known as Miliki (f. 2012).
• 5 November: Lennart Johansson, Swedish football leader (f. 2019).
• 9 November: Alfonso Cabeza, doctor and Spanish football leader.
• 9 November: Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer (f. 2016).
• November 10: Ninon Sevilla, Cuban actress and rumbera (f. 2015).
• 11 November: Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German poet and essayist.(f.2022)
• 12 November: Michael Ende, German writer (f. 1995).
• 12 November: Grace Kelly, American actress (f. 1982).
• 13 November: Jaime Gil de Biedma, a Spanish writer (f. 1990).

Ed Asner

• November 15: Ed Asner, an American actor (f. 2021).
• 25 November: Jorge Julio López, Argentine mason (disappeared in 2006) who was killed for testifying against Miguel Etchecolatz, who had tortured him between 1976 and 1983.
• November 30: Dick Clark, American presenter (f. 2012).

December

• December 6: Javier Cortes Álvarez de Miranda, Spanish archaeologist (f. 2009).
• December 9: Bob Hawke, former Australian Prime Minister (f. 2019).
• December 11: Eduardo Schinca, playwright, actor and Uruguayan theatre director (f. 2001).
• December 12: Antunes Filho, Brazilian theatre director (f. 2019).
• 13 December: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (f. 2021).
• December 14: Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, arzobispo español (f. 2019).
• December 14: David Manzur, Colombian painter.
• December 18: Orlando Cantuarias, attorney and Chilean politician (f. 2014).
• December 19: Lorenzo Buffon, Italian footballer.
• December 19: Pablo Macera, Peruvian historian (f. 2020).
• December 20: Manuel Losada Villasante, biochemical and Spanish biologist.
• December 23: Chet Baker, American jazz singer and trompetist (f. 1988).
• December 24: José Carol Archs, Spanish writer (f.2019).
• December 27: Lucio Muñoz, a Spanish painter (f. 1998).
• December 29: Jaime Gómez, Mexican footballer (f. 2008).
• December 31: Agustín Acosta Lagunes, Mexican politician (f. 2011).
• December 31: Enrique Sobisch, Argentine painter and painter (f. 1989).

Unknown dates

• Prakasanand Sárasuati, guru, suami and Indian pedophile, creator of the Barsana Dham sect in the United States.
• Jorge Wehbe, Argentine politician, the last minister of the economy of the Argentine civil-military dictatorship, in 1983 (f. 1998).

Deaths

January

• January 13: Wyatt Earp, American Sheriff (n. 1848).

February

• February 6: Maria Cristina of Habsburg-Lorena, Austrian aristocrat, Spanish consort queen (n. 1858).
• 11 February: John II, aristocrat liechtensteniano.

March

• March 15: Pinetop Smith, American pianist and blues composer (n. 1904).
• March 25: Robert Ridgway, American ornithologist (n. 1850).
• March 27: Charles Henry Brent, bishop of the United States and promoter of the war on drugs. (n. 1862)

April

• April 4: Karl Benz, a German businessman, one of the modern vehicle inventors (n. 1844).
• April 22: Odón Mijálovich, composer and Hungarian musical educator (n. 1842).

May

• 2 May: José María Rubio, Jesuit and Holy Spanish (n. 1864).
• May 7: Nemesio Camacho, lawyer, politician and businessman (n. 1869).
• May 31: Aníbal González Álvarez Ossorio, Spanish architect (n. 1876).

June

• June 21: Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, politician and sociologist, theorist of new liberalism (n. 1864).

July

• 1 July: Venceslau de Moraes, militar, diplomat and Portuguese writer (n. 1854).
• July 14: Hans Delbrück, German historian (n. 1848).

August

• August 13: Eusebius Mandyczewski, Austrian composer and musicologist (n. 1857).

September

• 8 September: Domingo Rivero, Spanish poet (n. 1852).
• September 23: Richard Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925 (n. 1865).

October

• October 3: Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1926 (n. 1878).
• October 8: Jacek Malczewski, Polish painter (n. 1854).
• October 26: Aby Warburg, German historian (n. 1866).

November

• 14 November: Kamala, autistic Bengali girl, allegedly raised by wolves (n. 1912).
• November 18: T. P. O'Connor, Irish politician and journalist.

December

• December 8: José Vicente Concha, Colombian President (n. 1867).
• December 11: Efrén Rebolledo, Mexican writer and diplomat (n. 1877).

Unknown dates

• Rafael Barradas (39) Spanish painter, awarded in France (1925) and Italy (1927).

Art and literature

• Ernest Hemingway: Goodbye to arms.
• Romulo Gallegos: Barbara.
• Martín Luis Guzmán: The shadow of the warlord.
• Agatha Christie: The mystery of the seven spheres and Wise marriage.
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: South Mail.
• Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz.
• William Faulkner: The noise and the fury.
• Dashiell Hammett: Red seal.
• Alberto Moravia: The indifferent.
• Jacinto Benavente: Cross Lives (theatrical work).
• In Cordoba, Spain, the monument to the Duke of Rivas was opened, by Mariano Benlliure.
• In San Sebastián (Spain), José Manuel Aizpurua designs one of the most important examples of rationalist architecture in Spain, the building of the San Sebastian Yacht Club.
• David Manzur (Pintor Colombiano)

Science and technology

• Edwin Hubble discovers galaxies beyond the Milky Way away from Earth.
• Hans Berger: Electroencefalography.
• Heidegger: What is metaphysics?
• Bertrand Russell: Ethics and morals.
• IBM builds the statistical calculator.
• Ernst Schwarz describes the Bonobo (Pan paniscus) as a species other than chimpanzee (Pan troglodites), both very philosophically related to man.

Cinema

• An Andalusian dog (A chien andalou)Luis Buñuel.
• The parade of love (The Love Parade)Ernst Lubitsch.
• The four coconuts (The Coconuts)of Robert Florey and Joseph Santley (with the Marx Brothers).
• The girl from London or Chanting (Blackmail)Alfred Hitchcock.
• The world in progressKing Vidor.
• Broadway melody wins the Oscar to the best movie.
• Wild orchids (Wild Orchids)Sidney Franklin.
• East (Where East Is East)Tod Browning.
• Queen Kelly (Queen Kelly)Erich Von Stroheim.
• Three Live Ghosts, The Valley of DecisionThornton Freeland.
• Captain Drummond (Bulldog Drummond)F. Richard Jones.
• DisraeliAlfred E. Green.
• The camera manDziga Vertov.
• The mystery of the sun gate , first sound feature of Spanish cinema.

Sports

• February 10: Spain begins the first Spanish football league, which wins the FC Barcelona.
• April 28: in Quito (Ecuador) the Club Sport Emelec is founded.
• 7 August: in Lima (Peru) the University Sports Club is created
• Chess: Moscovita Aleksandr Alejin (1892-1946) is proclaimed world champion.

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Louis-Victor of Broglie.
• Chemistry: Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
• Medicine: Christiaan Eijkhtiman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
• Literature: Thomas Mann.
• Peace: Frank Billings Kellogg.