Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1929.

The year 1929 marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression.

January

January 6: The start of the "6 January Dictatorship" begins under Alexander I in what is renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

February

February 8: Peter Kurten assaults a woman then molests and murders an eight-year-old girl in the German City of Dusseldorf - he becomes known as 'The Vampire of Dusselfdorf'. (Books881)
February 9: The Litvinov Protocol is signed in Moscow among the USSR, Poland, Estonia, Romania and Latvia.
February 11: Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
February 13: Peter Kurten attacks and kills a mechanic stabbing him twenty times. (Books881)
February 14: St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters, rivals of Al Capone, are murdered in Chicago.
February 26: The Grand Teton National Park is established by Congress.

March

March 2: The longest bridge in the world, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.
March 3: A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre fails in Mexico.
March 3: For days a rain of buckshot, at intervals, was falling in the office of the Newton Garage, Newton, New Jersey, USA. (Books914)
March 4: Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge.
March 9: The body of Isidor Fink of New York, USA, is found shot three times in a locked room, the only access via a very narrow transom not big enough for a grown man. A woman, who heard screams, and sounds as if of blows, but no shots, notified the police. Police Commissioner Mulrooney called this murder, in a closed room, an "insoluble mystery." (Books916)

April

April 3: Persia signs the Litvinov Protocol.

May

The Wickersham Commission begins its investigation of alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
May 16: The 1st Academy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California, with Wings winning Best Picture.
May 31: The British general election returns a hung parliament yet again; the Liberals will determine who has power.

June

June 3: The Treaty of Lima settles a border dispute between Peru and Chile.
June 7: The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified.
June 8: Ramsay MacDonald founds a new Labour government.
June 21: An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico. On June 27, church bells ring for the first time in years.
June 27: The first public demonstration of color TV is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.
June 29: El Paso, Texas, USA. Scores of persons, in the streets, dropped unconscious, and several of them died. (Books853)

July

July 11: In Russia, a secret decree of the Sovnarkom creates the backbone of the Gulag system.
July 24: French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns for medical reasons; he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.
July 25: Pope Pius XI emerges from the Vatican and enters St. Peter's square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of papal self-imprisonment within the Vatican.
July 27: The Geneva Convention addresses the treatment of prisoners of war.

August

August 16: The 1929 Palestine riots breaks out between Arabs and Jews and continues until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
August 21: Peter Kurten stabs three people in seperate attacks. (Books881)
August 23: Peter Kurten, attacks and kills two sisters, aged five and 14. (Books881)
August 23-24: The 1929 Hebron massacre, in which 65-68 Jews are killed by Arabs and the remaining Jews are forced to leave Hebron.
August 24: A woman is stabbed by Peter Kurten, 'The Vampire of Dusseldorf'. (Books881)
August 29: The 1929 Safed massacre, in which 18-20 Jews by are killed by Arabs in Safed.
August 29: A traveling light in the sky, about 400 miles off the coast of Virginia, USA. "There was something that gave the impression that it was a large, passenger craft." - New York Herald Tribune. (Books630)
August 31: The Young Plan, which set the total World War I reparations owed by Germany at US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized.

September

September: 'The Vampire of Dusseldorf', Peter Kurten, committed a single rape and murder, brutally beating a servant girl with a hammer in woods that lay just outside of Dusseldorf. (Books881)
September 3: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) peaks at 381.17, a height it would not reach again until November 1954.
September 5: Aristide Briand presents his plan for the United States of Europe.
September 17: A coup ousts Augustinas Voldemaras in Lithuania; the new president is Antanas Smetona.
September 19: An alligator, 31 inches long, is killed in Hackensack Meadows, N.J., USA. - New York American. (Books591)
September 23: An alligator, 28 inches long, found in a small creek, near Walcott, N.Y., USA. - New York Sun. (Books591)
September 30: Fritz von Opel pilots the first rocket-powered aircraft, the Opel RAK.1, in front of a large crowd in Frankfurt am Main.

October

October: During October Peter Kurten, known as the 'Vampire of Dusseldorf' attacks two women with a hammer. (Books881)
October 15: "I was looking over these notes, (notes upon falling pictures), and I called A (Anna Fort) from the kitchen to discuss them. I note that A (Anna Fort) had been doing nothing in the kitchen. She had just come in: had gone to the kitchen to see what the birds were doing. While discussing those falling pictures, we heard a loud sound. Ran back, and found on the kitchen floor a pan that had fallen from a pile of utensils in a closet." (Books980)
October 18: Women are announced to be persons by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain. Women can be appointed to the Canadian Senate, an achievement by five Canadian women called the Famous Five.
October 22: The government of Aristide Briand falls in France.
October 25: Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.

November

Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for color television.
November 1: An annular solar eclipse is seen around the world.
November 7: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
November 7: Peter Kurten, 'The Vampire of Dusseldorf', killed a five-year-old girl by strangling and stabbing her 36 times with scissors. (Books881)
November 18: 1929 Grand Banks earthquake.
November 29: Floyd Bennett, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley, and Harold June, become the first to fly over the South Pole.

December

December 28: "Black Saturday" in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.
December 29: The All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence.