360What happened in 1929?
4 moments from 1929 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 16 May 1929
The first Academy Awards are presented
On 16 May 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented at a dinner in Hollywood, in a ceremony lasting about 15 minutes. Wings, a film about First World War pilots, won the top prize. The Oscars are now the world's best-known film awards.
- On this day · 29 November 1929
The first flight over the South Pole
On 29 November 1929, the American aviator Richard Byrd and his crew flew over the South Pole in a Ford Trimotor aircraft named Floyd Bennett. To clear the high mountains on the way, they threw supplies overboard to lighten the plane. The round trip from their Antarctic base took about 19 hours.
- 1929 · from Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Fleming publishes his findings
- 1929 · from The 1920s: insulin, penicillin and the first television
Wall Street Crash