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Historical Event(s)
– Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
– A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
– In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
– The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, “The Karnival Kid”, is released.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic “World Teacher”, shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
– Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
– Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
– JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
– Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
Who Were Born On ?
– Terry Moore, American actress
– Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
– Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
– Huey P. Meaux, American record producer (d. 2011)
– Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (d. 2003)
– Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
– Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (d. 1996)
– Don Larsen, American baseball player
– Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997)
– George Crumb, American composer