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June - Elijah Muhammed takes over as leader of the Nation of Islam following the disappearance of Wallace Fard Muhammad.
June 30 to July 2 - The Night of the Long Knives, a purge of all of Adolf Hitler's political enemies, is carried out. Among those killed are Sturmabteilung commander Ernst Röhm and leftist leader Gregor Strasser.
July 10 - The NKVD is founded as the secret police of the Soviet Union.
August 2 - Adolf Hitler declares himself Führer of Germany.
October 9 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are both assassinated by Bulgarian revolutionary Vlado Chernozemski, a member of the Ustaše, during a state visit in Marseilles, France.
October 16 - The Communist Party of China begins the Long March.
October 26 - 23-year old Claude Neal is lynched in Jackson County, Florida by a gang of white supremacists after being accused of raping and murdering a 19-year old white woman. Massive rioting takes place all over the county in the following days in an attempt to drive blacks out of the county.
November 5 - The Kelayres Massacre takes place.

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 * July 10 - The [[NKVD]] is founded as the [[secret police]] of the Soviet Union.
 * August 2 - [[Adolf Hitler]] declares himself ''Führer'' of Germany.
-* October 9 - King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]] and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are both assassinated by Bulgarian revolutionary [[Vlado Chernozemski]], a member of the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]], during a state visit in Marseilles, France. The [[Ustaše]] were also involved in the plot.
+* October 9 - King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]] and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are both assassinated by Bulgarian revolutionary [[Vlado Chernozemski]], a member of the [[Ustaše]], during a state visit in Marseilles, France.
 * October 16 - The [[Communist Party of China]] begins the Long March.
 * October 26 - 23-year old Claude Neal is [[Lynching|lynched]] in Jackson County,  Florida by a gang of [[White Supremacy|white supremacist]]s after being accused of raping and murdering a 19-year old white woman. Massive rioting takes place all over the county in the following days in an attempt to drive blacks out of the county.