1929

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 exiled.
• 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.
• Unknown - Murder, Inc. is founded by Louis Buchalter and Albert Anastasia.
• Unknown - Malcolm X's family home is burned down by members of the Black Legion.

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
• Unknown - William Unek

Victim births

• January 15 - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• June 12 - Anne Frank

Deaths

Villain deaths

• February 14 - Frank Gusenberg
• May 6 - Dagmar Overbye