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.