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May 1929
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The following events occurred in May 1929:

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May 16, 1929: Actor Emil Jannings receives the first-ever Academy Award
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May 30, 1929: British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Tories lose their majority in the House of Commons
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May 4, 1929: Laurel and Hardy make the transition to sound
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Wednesday, May 1, 1929

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Thursday, May 2, 1929

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Friday, May 3, 1929

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

Saturday, May 4, 1929

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Sunday, May 5, 1929

  • 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)
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Wednesday, May 8, 1929

Thursday, May 9, 1929

Friday, May 10, 1929

Saturday, May 11, 1929

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Sunday, May 12, 1929

Monday, May 13, 1929

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Lucky Luciano
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Bugsy Siegel

Tuesday, May 14, 1929

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

Friday, May 17, 1929

  • 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

Sunday, May 19, 1929

Monday, May 20, 1929

Tuesday, May 21, 1929

Wednesday, May 22, 1929

Thursday, May 23, 1929

  • 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

Saturday, May 25, 1929

Sunday, May 26, 1929

Monday, May 27, 1929

  • 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

Thursday, May 30, 1929

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MacDonald

Friday, May 31, 1929

  • 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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