In the 15th Rose Bowl, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeated the California Golden Bears 8–7. The game featured one of the biggest blunders in college football history when Roy Riegels of the Golden Bears picked up a fumble and ran the wrong way, leading to a Yellow Jackets two-point safety that ultimately provided the margin of victory.[1]
German President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Hermann Müller told a New Year's Day reception of diplomatic representatives that the German people wanted the occupation of the Rhineland to end. Hindenburg said that the German people were "very bitter because a great part of their country still lacks the liberty which we claim by divine and human right", while Müller said that strained international relations remaining over the war could only end once the "foreign yoke" of occupation had been removed.[2]
Yugoslavian Prime Minister Anton Korošec informed King Alexander of his resignation, explaining that he could not accept the demands of the Peasant-Democratic coalition which was campaigning for Croatian autonomy.[3][4]
The monarchy of Yugoslavia issued a statement declaring that the current governmental crisis could not be resolved with a parliamentary regime.[9]
Pan-American delegates signed the General Act of Inter-American Arbitration in Washington, D.C.. The agreement was a sort of Kellogg-Briand Pact for the Western Hemisphere.[10]
King Alexander of Yugoslavia issued a series of royal decrees, putting all the nation's legal courts under direct control of the government and cutting off revenues to Yugoslavian political ministers.[15]
The Soviet Union reduced its working day to seven hours.[12]
Babe Ruth's estranged wife Helen died in a house fire in Watertown, Massachusetts. She had been living for several years with a dentist and was thought by neighbours to have been his wife.[19]
Amānullāh KhānofAfghanistan, facing revolt, abdicated and left the throne to his brother Inayatullah Khan. King Inayatullah reigned for only three days before being overthrown by rebels. [21]
The Hawes-Cooper Act was passed in the United States, making prison-made goods subject to the laws of the state importing them. The bill was an attempt to curtail the use of prison labor that could make goods more cheaply than free market labor.[26]
Political parties with the word "Croat", "Croatia" or "Croatian" in their name, including the Croatian Popular Party, were ordered dissolved in Yugoslavia.[27]
Two thousand monarchists assembled in Berlin's Krieger-Vereinshaus to celebrate the upcoming 70th birthday of deposed Kaiser Wilhelm II and hail Crown Prince Wilhelm as the "heir to the imperial crown". The former crown prince did not appear, but his son Wilhelm of Prussia sat in the front row and frequently rose to bow.[30]
A mistake during an aerial bombing practice in Peshawar inadvertently killed 14 members of the Poona Horse cavalry regiment in what is now called "friendly fire".[31]
Fascist Italy announced an extensive new shipbuilding program to bring the country's naval strength back to parity with other powers, particularly France.[32]
Outgoing U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave his farewell budget address before members of the business organizations of the government. Coolidge warned that the nation's prosperity would only continue if rigid economical practice was maintained.[36]
^"Berlin Demands its "Rightful" Full Freedom". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 2, 1929. p. 3.
^Dragnich, Alex N. (1983). The First Yugoslavia: Search for a Viable Political System. Leland Stanford Junior University. p. 55. ISBN978-0-8179-7843-3.
^"Latin Powers Sign Protocol, Averting War". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 4, 1929. p. 1.
^Gomery, Douglas (2005). The Coming of Sound. Oxon and New York: Routledge. p. 119. ISBN978-1-135-92395-2.
^"Andrew Mellon Pays $1,000,000 for "Madonna"". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 5, 1929. p. 1.
^"Noted English Art Authority Dies". Emporia Gazette. Emporia, Kansas: 8. May 25, 1939.
^ abTomasevich, Jozo (2001). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941–1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 26. ISBN978-0-8047-7924-1.
^Rue, Larry (January 9, 1929). "Serbia Dictator Decrees Entire New Set of Laws". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 23.
^"Public Meetings in Serbia Banned by New Dictator". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 10, 1929. p. 18.
^Assouline, Pierre (2009) [1996]. Hergé, the Man Who Created Tintin. Charles Ruas (translator). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-539759-8.
^Rue, Larry (January 14, 1929). "Dictator Puts Curb on Press in Jugo-Slavia". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 13.
^ abTucker, Spencer C. (2010). A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC. pp. 1838–1839. ISBN978-1-85109-672-5.
