by 47.000 visitors; the curator is Alfred H. Barr. November 15 – Atlantic, a film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, is released in the U.K., the first British sound-on-film movie and, in its simultaneously-shot German-language version, the first to be released in Germany. November 18 – The 1929 Grand Banks earthquake occurs. November 29 – Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley and Harold June become the first to fly over the South Pole. December December – New York toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe popularizes Bingo after coming across the game of "Beano" in Atlanta, Georgia. After someone accidentally yells "bingo" instead of "beano" with a group of friends in Brooklyn, New York, he begins production of the game, going on to develop more than 6,000 card combinations under the E. S. Lowe company, as the popularity of the game grows to become a national pastime. December 27 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class". December 28 – "Black Saturday" in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa. December 29 – The All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence. Births January January 1 Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor (d. 2017) Latif-ur-Rehman, Indian field hockey player (d. 1987) January 2 – Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician and First Lady of Finland January 3 Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989) Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur January 4 – Günter Schabowski, official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (d. 2015) January 5 – Alexandre Jany, French swimmer and water polo player (d. 2001) January 7 – Terry Moore, American actress January 8 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor (d. 2015) January 9 – Brian Friel, Irish dramatist (d. 2015) January 11 Nureddin al-Atassi, Syrian philatelist, 54th Prime Minister of Syria and 17th President of Syria (d. 1992) Wanda Wiłkomirska, Polish violinist and teacher (d. 2018) January 12 Irena Homola-Skąpska, Polish historian (d. 2017) Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish philosopher Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher, logician (d. 2015) January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968) January 17 Tan Boon Teik, Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012) Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986) January 19 Edmundo Abaya, Filipino Catholic archbishop (d. 2018) Carl-Ebbe Andersen, Danish rower (d. 2009) January 20 Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer