1929

Millennium:	2nt millennium
Centuries:	19t century – 20t century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1926 1927 1928 – 1929 – 1930 1931 1932

Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) wis a common year stairtin on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. Bi 1 Januar o this year, every state in the entire warld haed adoptit the Gregorian calendar, havin abandoned the Julian calendar.

Events

Mey 16 – The 1st Academy Awairds are presentit in a 15-minute ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, honourin the best movies o 1927 an 1928, Wings (1927) winning Best Picture. Gerald Duffy (died 1928) receives the anly Academy Awaird for Best Teetle Writin ever awairdit (for his intertitles to the silent film The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)).