1929 in the United Kingdom

1929 in the United Kingdom:
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Events from the year 1929 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch - George V
Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) (until 5 June), Ramsay MacDonald (Labour) (starting 5 June)

Events

23 January - The Lancashire Cotton Corporation is set up by the Bank of England to rescue the Lancashire cotton milling (spinning) industry by means of horizontal integration.
30 March - Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.^[1]
22 April - Chat Moss airport opens in Manchester, Britain's first municipal airport.^[2]
10 May - Yorkshire cricketer Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a match against Oxford University.^[3]
14 May - The North East Coast Exhibition opens, and will run for 6 months.^[4]
31 May - The General election returns a hung parliament. Liberals will determine who has power. Among the Conservative casualties is Harold Macmillan, the 35-year-old MP for Stockton-on-Tees, who first entered parliament five years ago.^[5]
7 June - The Conservatives concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority.
8 June - Ramsay MacDonald founds new Labour government.^[2]
17 June - Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail shown for the first time in London, the first British sound film.^[1]
1 July - C. P. Scott retires after 57½ years as editor of The Manchester Guardian and is succeeded by his son, Ted.
5 July - Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency under the Vagrancy Act 1838.^[6]
11 July - Gillingham Fair fire disaster kills 15 as a firefighting demonstration goes catastrophically wrong in Kent.
4 August - Bekonscot opens to the public in Buckinghamshire, the world's oldest original miniature park.
20 August - First transmissions of John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system by the BBC.^[7]
2 October - The Union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland takes place.
28 October - Sharp fall on the London Stock Exchange, following a similar crash on Wall Street on 24 October.^[2]
1 November
- The Pony Club established.^[1]
- Release in the United States of the historical film Disraeli. George Arliss plays the title rôle, for which he will be awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first British winner.
10 November - Première of John Grierson's documentary film Drifters about North Sea herring fishermen, made for the Empire Marketing Board, effectively inaugurating the British Documentary Film Movement. (It debuts at the private Film Society in London on a double-bill with the UK première of Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin.)^[8]
1 December - Underground Electric Railways Company of London officially opens its new headquarters building at 55 Broadway designed by Charles Holden and incorporating sculptures by Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill and Henry Moore.^[9]
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".^[10]
- Frederick Hopkins wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins".^[11]
31 December - Glen Cinema Disaster in Paisley, Scotland: 69 children die trying to escape smoke.^[12]

Undated

First Tesco store opens, at Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex.^[13]
Coypu introduced to East Anglia for their fur.
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.
Patrick Hamilton's play Rope.
Richard Hughes' novel A High Wind in Jamaica.
Charles Kay Ogden's book Basic English.
J. B. Priestley's novel The Good Companions.^[14]
Alison Uttley's children's book The Squirrel, The Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit, introducing Little Grey Rabbit.
Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own.

Births

28 January - Acker Bilk, jazz clarinetist and band leader (died 2014)
29 January
- Malcolm Binns, classical pianist
- Patrick Caulfield, painter and educator (d. 2005)
31 January - Jean Simmons, actress (died 2010)
6 February - Keith Waterhouse, novelist and journalist (died 2009)
15 February - Graham Hill, race car driver (died 1975)
17 February
- Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 1993)
- Patricia Routledge, actress
18 February - Len Deighton, author
21 February - James Beck, actor (died 1973)
13 March - Jim Slater, investor (died 2015)
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
29 April - Jeremy Thorpe, Liberal leader (died 2014)
4 May - Audrey Hepburn, actress (died 1993)
9 May - Anthony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick, lawyer and judge
14 May - Henry McGee, actor (died 2006)
8 June - Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, politician (died 2012)
12 June - Brigid Brophy, author (died 1995)
13 June - Alan Civil, horn player (died 1989)
5 July - Tony Lock, cricketer (died 1995)
17 July - Kenneth Grange, industrial designer
24 July - Peter Yates, film director (died 2011)
31 July - Lynne Reid Banks, author
8 August - Ronald Biggs, criminal (died 2013)
25 August - Clifford Forsythe, politician (died 2000)
29 August - Thom Gunn, poet (died 2004)
15 September - John Julius Norwich, historian
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 (died 2011)
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 - Lord 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

1 2 3 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. p. 91. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
1 2 3 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 371–372. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ "Oxford University v Yorkshire in 1929". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
↑ "Exhibition Park: Newcastle City Council". Retrieved 2012-03-07.
↑ "Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)". History. BBC. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
↑ Graham-Dixon, Andrew (11 May 2003). "Rude awakening". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
↑ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
↑ Sexton, Jamie. "Drifters (1929)". screenonline. BFI. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
↑ Lawrence, David (1994). Underground Architecture. Harrow: Capital Transport. pp. 68–71. ISBN 1-85414-160-0.
↑ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929". Retrieved 2007-11-28.
↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929". Retrieved 2007-11-28.
↑ "Glen Cinema". The History of Paisley. Paisley.org.uk. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
↑ "Our history". Tesco plc. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
↑ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

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