Editing 1929

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== Events ==
* January 6 - King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]] declares the formation of the "6 January Dictatorship".
* January 6 - [[Heinrich Himmler]] is appointed ''Reichsführer'' of the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''.
* January 7 - The [[Ustaše]] is founded.
* February - [[Leon Trotsky]] is expelled from the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] by [[Joseph Stalin]] and forcibly [[exile]]d.
* February 14 - The [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]] takes place in Chicago, Illinois, allegedly on [[Al Capone]]'s orders.
* February 15 - [[Klement Gottwald]] is named General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]].
* March 4 - The [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] is founded.
* August 24 - The [[1929 Hebron Massacre]] takes place.
* October 25 - Former U.S. Interior Secretary [[Albert Fall]] is convicted of bribery for his role in the [[Teapot Dome scandal]], becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office. He is sentenced to one year in prison.
* Unknown - [[Murder, Inc.]] is founded by [[Louis Buchalter]] and [[Albert Anastasia]].

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 9 - [[Dorothea Puente]]
* April 7 - [[Bob Denard]]
* April 20 - [[Ringaudas Songaila]]
* May 4 - [[Manuel Contreras]]
* June 12 - [[Robert Shelton]]
* July 9 - [[Hassan II of Morocco]]
* July 16 - [[Charles Ray Hatcher]]
* July 22 - [[Imelda Marcos]]
* August 1 - [[Hafizullah Amin]]
* August 4 - [[Yasser Arafat]]
* August 8 - [[Luis García Meza]] & [[Ronnie Biggs]]
* September 3 - [[Whitey Bulger]]
* September 19 - [[Gertrude Baniszewski]]
* November 13 – [[Fred Phelps]] 
* December 23 - [[Ruth Ann Steinhagen]]
* Unknown - [[William Unek]]

=== Victim births ===
* January 15 - Martin Luther King, Jr.
* June 12 - Anne Frank
* July 25 - Al Adamson 

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* February 14 - [[Frank Gusenberg]]
* May 6 - [[Dagmar Overbye]]
=== Victim deaths ===