1929 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1929 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, Conservative (until 5 June), Ramsay MacDonald, Labour

Events

* 30 March - Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006|pages=91]
* 22 April - Chat Moss airport opens in Manchester, Britain's first municipal airport.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 371-372|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 14 May - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
* 31 May - The General election returns a hung parliament. Liberals will determine who has power.
* 7 June - The Conservatives concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority.
* 8 June - Ramsay MacDonald founds new Labour government.
* 17 June - Alfred Hitchcock's film "Blackmail" shown for the first time in London, the first British sound film.
* 5 July - Scotland Yard seizes 12 nude paintings of D. H. Lawrence from the Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency.
* 20 August - First transmissions of John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system by the BBC. [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]
* 2 October - The Union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland took place.
* 28 October - Sharp fall on the London Stock Exchange, following a similar crash on Wall Street on 24 October.
* 1 November - The Pony Club established.
* 2 December - First telephone boxes in London.
* 10 December
** Arthur Harden wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Hans von Euler-Chelpin "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1929/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929|accessdate=2007-11-28]
** Frederick Hopkins wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1929/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929|accessdate=2007-11-28]

Undated

* Ross County F.C. founded in Dingwall, Scotland. They initially play in the Highland League.

Publications

* Agatha Christie's novel "The Seven Dials Mystery".
* Robert Graves' memoir "Good-Bye to All That".
* Richard Hughes' novel "A High Wind in Jamaica".
* Charles Kay Ogden's book "Basic English".
* Virginia Woolf's essay "A Room of One's Own".

Births

* 28 January - Acker Bilk, jazz clarinetist and band leader
* 31 January - Jean Simmons, actress
* 6 February - Keith Waterhouse, novelist and journalist
* 15 February - Graham Hill, race car driver (died 1975)
* 17 February - Patricia Routledge, actress
* 18 February - Len Deighton, author
* 21 February - James Beck, actor (died 1973)
* 23 March - Sir Roger Bannister, runner
* 5 April - Nigel Hawthorne, actor (died 2001)
* 18 April - Peter Jeffrey, actor (died 1999)
* 22 April - Michael Atiyah, mathematician
* 14 May - Henry McGee, actor
* 12 June - Brigid Brophy, author (died 1995)
* 13 June - Alan Civil, French horn player (died 1989)
* 5 July - Tony Lock, cricketer (died 1995)
* 24 July - Peter Yates, film director
* 31 July - Lynne Reid Banks, author
* 8 August - Ronald Biggs, criminal
* 25 August - Clifford Forsythe, politician (died 2000)
* 29 August - Thom Gunn, poet (died 2004)
* 21 September - Bernard Williams, philosopher (died 2003)
* 25 September - Ronnie Barker, comedian (died 2005)
* 7 October - Robert Westall, author (died 1993)
* 28 October - Joan Plowright, actress
* 11 December - Kenneth MacMillan, ballet dancer and choreographer (died 1992)
* 12 December - John Osborne, playwright and film producer (died 1994)
* 16 December - Nicholas Courtney, actor
* 16 December - James Moore, author
* 17 December - Jacqueline Hill, actress (died 1993)
* 28 December - Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (died 1994)

Deaths

* 12 February - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (born 1853)
* 21 May - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1847)
* 16 June - Bramwell Booth, General of The Salvation Army (born 1856)
* 28 June - Edward Carpenter, English poet (born 1844)
* 5 August - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (born 1847)
* 26 August - Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar (born 1843)

References

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