Timeline September 1929

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• 1929 – 2016 Arnold Palmer (1929-2016) Died 25 September 2016, aged 87 Palmer was an American professional golfer who won seven major championships and helped popularize the sport during the television era. His charisma earned him a fan following known as "Arnie's Army." He was a founding member of the Golf Channel and a successful businessman.
• 1929 – 2020 Stirling Moss The Greatest Never to be Champion The most successful driver in terms of race wins never to win a World Championship.
• 1929 Tolkien converts C.S. Lewis to Christianity In a long nocturnal conversation on Addison's Walk in Oxford on 19–20 September 1931, Tolkien and Hugo Dyson convince C.S. Lewis that Christianity is not a myth but rather the myth that is also true — the one story that really happened. Lewis converts to Christianity within days, to Anglicanism rather than Tolkien's Catholicism. The conversion is one of the great intellectual friendships bearing fruit: Lewis goes on to write Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. Tolkien's concept of myth as a vehicle for truth — directly expressed in his poem 'Mythopoeia' — is the seed of Lewis's faith.
• 1929 – 2003 Bernard Williams (1929-2003) Died 10 June 2003, aged 73 Bernard Williams was an English philosopher regarded as among the most influential moral thinkers of his generation. He criticised the systematising ambitions of utilitarianism and Kantian ethics and argued for the complexity of ordinary moral life. He held chairs at Cambridge, Berkeley and Oxford.
• 1929 First fully blind flight Doolittle takes off and lands on instruments alone Jimmy Doolittle took off, flew a set course and landed at Mitchel Field, New York, in a hooded cockpit, relying only on instruments. The flight proved that instrument flying was practical.
• 1929 A Farewell to Arms published Hemingway's First World War novel Ernest Hemingway's novel of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for a British nurse was published by Scribner's. It became his first best-seller.
• 1929 – 2024 Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929-2024) Died 28 February 2024, aged 94 Soviet politician who was premier of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991.
• 1929 BBC begins experimental television broadcasts Baird's mechanical television on air The BBC began transmitting John Logie Baird's 30-line mechanical television system from London. They were among the first regular television transmissions in Britain.