1929 in The United Kingdom - Events

Events

• 30 March - Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.
• 22 April - Chat Moss airport opens in Manchester, Britain's first municipal airport.
• 14 May - Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
• 14 May - The North East Coast Exhibition exhibition opens, and will run for 6 months
• 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.
• 7 June - The Conservatives concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for fragile majority.
• 8 June - Ramsay MacDonald founds new Labour government.
• 17 June - Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail shown for the first time in London, the first British sound film.
• 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 nude paintings by D. H. Lawrence from a Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency.
• 11 July - Gillingham Fair fire disaster kills 15 as a firefighting demonstration goes catastrophically wrong.
• 20 August - First transmissions of John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system by the BBC.
• 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.
• 1 November - The Pony Club established.
• 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.)
• 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.
• 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".
  • Frederick Hopkins wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins".
• 31 December - Glen Cinema Disaster in Paisley, Scotland: 69 children die trying to escape smoke.