May 1929

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May 16, 1929: Actor Emil Jannings receives the first-ever Academy Award
May 30, 1929: British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Tories lose their majority in the House of Commons
May 4, 1929: Laurel and Hardy make the transition to sound

The following events occurred in May 1929:

Wednesday, May 1, 1929

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Thursday, May 2, 1929

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Friday, May 3, 1929

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  • Berlin Police stormed barricades erected by communists as rioting continued in the city for a third day.[3]
Lobby card for The Cocoanuts

Saturday, May 4, 1929

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Sunday, May 5, 1929

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  • Fifty policemen in Berlin were arrested for mutiny, as fighting with communists finally ended after four days.[8]
  • Born: Ilene Woods, voice actress and singer, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (d. 2010)

Monday, May 6, 1929

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Sinclair

Tuesday, May 7, 1929

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Al Capone
  • Al Capone hosted a party to ostensibly honor gang members John Scalise, Albert Anselmi and Joseph Giunta. In February, Scalise and Anselmi had been arrested on suspicion of having carried out the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, but released for lack of evidence. During the festivities Capone accused them of being traitors, then personally beat them with a club and shot them dead. Their bodies were dumped on a roadside near Hammond, Indiana, where they were found the next day.[10][11]
  • Born: Dick Williams, baseball player, manager and coach, in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2011)

Wednesday, May 8, 1929

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Thursday, May 9, 1929

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Friday, May 10, 1929

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Saturday, May 11, 1929

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Sunday, May 12, 1929

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Monday, May 13, 1929

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Lucky Luciano
Bugsy Siegel

Tuesday, May 14, 1929

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Wednesday, May 15, 1929

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The file room after the fire [21]
  • A fire at the Cleveland Clinic killed 123 people, after nitrocellulose x-ray film ignited in the basement of the hospital. Most of the victims died from the inhalation of nitric acid fumes generated by the burning of the film stock.[22]
  • Germany submitted its reparations counterproposal to the Young Commission.[23]

Thursday, May 16, 1929

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Friday, May 17, 1929

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  • Al Capone and a bodyguard were arrested in Philadelphia for carrying concealed weapons. They both pleaded guilty and each were sentenced to a year in prison.[27][28]
  • Died: Lilli Lehmann, 80, German operatic soprano

Saturday, May 18, 1929

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Sunday, May 19, 1929

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Monday, May 20, 1929

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Tuesday, May 21, 1929

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Wednesday, May 22, 1929

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Thursday, May 23, 1929

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  • Feng Yuxiang, who had been War Minister of China until attempting a revolt against President Chiang Kai-shek, was expelled permanently from the Kuomintang.[34]
  • Mickey Mouse was heard speaking on screen for the first time with the release of the cartoon short The Karnival Kid.
  • Born: Vic Stasiuk, Canadian ice hockey player who was part of the trio of Ukrainian-Canadians to make up "The Uke Line" for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League; in Lethbridge, Alberta (d. 2023)

Friday, May 24, 1929

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Saturday, May 25, 1929

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Sunday, May 26, 1929

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Monday, May 27, 1929

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  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided the "Pocket Veto Case" (Bands of the State of Washington v. United States and Okanogan, Methow, San Poelis, Nespelem, Colville, and Lake Indian Tribes v. United States), interpreting Article I of the U.S. Constitution and the provision that a bill that has not been signed or returned to Congress within 10 days becomes law unless Congress has adjourned. Specifically, the Court determined that adjourning for the summer would not have prevented Congress from reconsidering a bill, as opposed to adjourning without consideration of further legislation.
  • The Court decided United States v. Schwimmer, upholding the denial of U.S. citizenship to Hungarian pacifist Rosika Schwimmer, who had refused to agree that she was "willing to "take up arms in defense of her country".
  • Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow were married in a surprise ceremony outside Englewood, New Jersey.[38]

Tuesday, May 28, 1929

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Mr. Smoot and Mr. Hawley

Wednesday, May 29, 1929

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Thursday, May 30, 1929

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MacDonald

Friday, May 31, 1929

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  • The Ford Motor Company signed a nine-year contract with the Soviet Union. The Soviets agreed to purchase $30 million worth of Ford products within four years while Ford agreed to provide technical advice and help build an automobile factory in Nizhny Novgorod.[43] The Nizhegorodsky Avtomobilny Zavod factory would open at the end of 1931 and produce its first vehicle, based on the Ford Model A, and marketed in the USSR as the NAZ-A starting on January 1, 1932.

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  2. ^ Schultz, Sigrid (May 2, 1929). "15 Die in German Red Riots". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  3. ^ "Police Besiege Berlin Reds". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 4, 1929. p. 1.
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  5. ^ "Supreme Court Orders Sinclair to Start Term". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 5, 1929. p. 3.
  6. ^ Skretvedt, Randy (1996). Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies. (2nd ed.) Anaheim, California: Past Times Publishing Co. ISBN 0-940410-29-X.
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  8. ^ Schultz, Sigrid (May 6, 1929). "Berlin Police Mutiny as Four Day Riots End". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  9. ^ "Place Sinclair Behind Bars". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 7, 1929. p. 1.
  10. ^ Sifakis, Carl (2005). The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Facts on File, Inc. p. 20. ISBN 9780816069897.
  11. ^ "3 Slain; Scialsi, Anselmi?". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 8, 1929. p. 1.
  12. ^ Stein, Fred. "Carl Hubbell". SABR Baseball Biography Project. Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  13. ^ Pegler, Westbrook (May 11, 1929). "Dr. Freeland's Victory in Preakness Worth $52, 325". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 23.
  14. ^ Wuthnow, Robert (2014). Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 145. ISBN 9781400852116.
  15. ^ "Riot; Close a University". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 12, 1929. p. 1.
  16. ^ Munden, Kenneth White (1971). American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1921–1930. University of California Press. p. 217. ISBN 9780520209695.
  17. ^ "Swiss Say 'No' to Prohibition by 2 to 1 Vote". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 13, 1929. p. 1.
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  20. ^ Crawford, Arthur (May 15, 1929). "Farm Bounty Wins in Senate". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
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  23. ^ "German War Debt Parley Reaches Crisis". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 16, 1929. p. 6.
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  26. ^ Count Montgelas (May 17, 1929). "Storm Cripples Graf Zeppelin". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  27. ^ Porazzo, Daniel M. "The Al Capone Trial: A Chronology". UMKC School of Law. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  28. ^ "Al Capone is Jailed on Gun Toting Charge". Daily Illini. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign: 3. May 18, 1929.
  29. ^ "'Toughest Jail' Closes Doors on Capone". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 19, 1929. p. 1.
  30. ^ "Panic at Ball Game Kills 2 in New York". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 20, 1929. p. 1.
  31. ^ Thomas, David (2011). Professionalism in Policing: An Introduction. Clifton Park, New York: Delmar, Cengage Learning. p. 8. ISBN 9780495091899.
  32. ^ "Beauty Contests are Forbidden by Mussolini". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 22, 1929. p. 1.
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  34. ^ "Supreme Party of China Expels "Christian" Feng". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 24, 1929. p. 8.
  35. ^ "Scotch Churches Unite". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 25, 1929. p. 10.
  36. ^ "Italian Senate Ratifies Accord with Vatican". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 26, 1929. p. 1.
  37. ^ "Flyers Down; 172 Hrs. in Air". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 27, 1929. p. 1.
  38. ^ Abrams, Norma (May 28, 1929). "Lindy and Anne Morrow Wed". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  39. ^ Crawford, Arthur (May 29, 1929). "House Sends Tariff Soaring". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  40. ^ Dickstein, Martin (May 29, 1929). "The Cinema Circuit". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 32.
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  42. ^ "Mrs. A. Hayden Died in Hospital; Inquest Opened— Aged Lady Had Bravely Tried to Battle Flamers Which Had Taken Hold Of Curtains in Her Home", Ottawa Evening Citizen, May 30, 1929, p. 14
  43. ^ "Ford and Russia Sign Contract for $30,000,000". Chicago Daily Tribune. June 1, 1929. p. 5.