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-:[[1920]] - [[1921]] - [[1922]] - [[1923]] - [[1924]] - [[1925]] - [[1926]] - [[1927]] - [[1928]] - [[1929]] - [[1930]] +'''1929''' is the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
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 +This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the [[Roaring Twenties]] after the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929]] ushered in a worldwide [[Great Depression]]. The British high court ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''[[Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)]]'' case. The [[1st Academy Awards]] for film were held in Los Angeles, while the [[Museum of Modern Art]] opened in New York City. In the Soviet Union, [[Joseph Stalin]] expelled [[Leon Trotsky]] and adopted a policy of [[collectivization]].
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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
 +===Trends and events===
 +*[[James Joyce meets Sergei Eisenstein]]
*[[The Great Depression]] *[[The Great Depression]]
-*''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' by [[Dziga Vertov]] + 
-*''[[Un Chien Andalou]]'' by Luis Buñuel +===Film===
-*First issue of ''[[Documents (journal) |DOCUMENTS]]'' +*''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' by Dziga Vertov
 +*''[[Un chien andalou]]'' by Luis Buñuel
 +*''[[The New Babylon]]'' by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
 +*''[[Melody of the World]]'' by Walter Ruttmann
 + 
 +===Literature===
 +====Non-fiction====
 + 
 +*"[[Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia]]" by Walter Benjamin
 +*First issue of ''[[Documents (magazine)|DOCUMENTS]]''
 +*First issue of ''[[Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales]]'' by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
 +*"[[The Big Toe]]", a text by Georges Bataille accompanied by three photos by Jacques-André Boiffard
 +*"[[Les mots et les images]]", a visual essay by René Magritte
 +*''[[What Is Metaphysics?]]'' by Martin Heidegger
 +*"[[Pornography and Obscenity]]" by D. H. Lawrence
 + 
 +====Fiction====
 +*''[[Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' by Alfred Döblin
 +===Design===
 +*[[Airliner no. 4]], Norman Bel Geddes with Otto Koller
 +===Architecture===
 +*The [[Barcelona Pavilion]] by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
 +===Photography===
 +*[[Aux Abattoirs de la Villette]] by Eli Lotar
 +*"[[The Big Toe]]" series by Jacques-André Boiffard
 + 
== Births == == Births ==
- +*[[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], African-American activist (d. 1968)
 +*[[Jacques Brel]], Belgian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
 +*[[Jean Baudrillard]], French philosopher (d. 2007)
 +*[[Sergio Leone]], Italian film director (d. 1989)
 +*[[René Laloux]], French film animator (d. 2004)
 +*[[José Ramón Larraz]], Spanish film director (d. 2013)
 +*[[Herschell Gordon Lewis]], American filmmaker (d. 2016)
 +*[[Régine Zylberberg]], Belgian entertainer
 +*[[Frank Gehry]], American architect
 +*[[Jürgen Habermas]], German philosopher
 + 
==Deaths == ==Deaths ==
-*Airliner no. 4, [[Norman Bel Geddes]] with [[Otto Koller]]+*[[Jacques Rigaut]]
-*The [[Barcelona Pavilion]] by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe+
-*[[The Big Toe]] by [[Jacques-André Boiffard]]+
-*[[James Joyce meets Sergei Eisenstein]] +
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1929 is the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.

This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. The British high court ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin expelled Leon Trotsky and adopted a policy of collectivization.

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