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1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
November 14 – Joe McGinnity, baseball player (born 1871) November 17 – Herman Hollerith, businessman and inventor (born 1860) November 24 – Raymond Hitchcock, actor and producer (born 1865) December 10 – Harry Crosby, publisher and poet (born 1898; suicide) December 19 – Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician (born 1893; heart failure)
The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers.The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. [1]
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]
In 1929, that same pioneering spirit drove a couple of Fort Worth flyers, Reg Robinson and James Kelly, to set a world endurance record for time in the air: 172 hours, 32 minutes. Take that ...
Clay was born on August 22, 1929, in Kinloch, Missouri. [2] [3] [4] At the time, Kinloch was the oldest African-American community that was incorporated in Missouri. [3]During his summer holidays, he worked as a gardener in Ferguson, but was encouraged by the local police to leave the majority white town. [5]
Frank Owen Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, [4] [5] to parents Sadie Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg. [6] His American father was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents, and his Polish-Jewish mother was an immigrant born in Łódź, Poland.