1929
Oscar De Priest tells an audience of 2,500 gathered at a rally at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church that blacks will never make substantial progress until they elect political leaders whose fortunes are dependent on their ability to fight for black interests in Congress. De Priest concludes: "No one can really lead you but one who has been Jim Crowed as you have."
1929
Joseph Goebbels is appointed Reich Propaganda Leader of
the Nazi Party.
1929
Jews and Arabs clash at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall. In Hebron,
Arabs kill 67 Jews and begin driving Jewish families ot of the city and
surrounding areas.
1929
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli becomes a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
1929
Lazar Kraganovich becomes First Secretary of the Moscow Party
Committee and a full member of the Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party.
1929
Bukharin, who had opposed Stalin's forced collectivization of
agriculture, thereby becoming the leader of the so-called Right Opposition, is
deprived of all his posts.
1929
King Alexander institutes absolute rule in troubled Yugoslavia.
1929
The Workers Party of America is renamed and becomes the Communist Party of the United States.
1929 January 6
Hitler appoints Heinrich Himmler to replace Erhard Heiden as head of the SS. The organization has fewer than 300 members and there is an independent SS leader, Kurt Deluege, in Berlin. (Secrets;The
SS, Time-Life)
1929 January 6
Alexander I abolishes his country's constitution and institutes absolute rule. He then changes his title and calls himself king of Yugoslavia.
1929 January 15
Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, is born in Atlanta. His father, Martin, Sr., is the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
1929 January 20
The Soviet OGPU (General Political Administration)
orders that Trotsky be deported to the Turkish island of Prinkipo, once used by
the Byzantine emperors to exile their opponents. He will live in Turkey
(1929-33), France (1933-35), Norway (1935-36), and Mexico (1936-40).
1929 February 9
The Litvinov Protocol is signed in Moscow by Soviet Russia, Poland, Romania, Latvia and Estonia. It gives immediate validity to the Kellogg-Briand Pact already signed between these same five countries.
1929 February 11
The Lateran Treaty is signed by Benito Mussolini
for the Italian government and Cardinal Pietro Gasparri for the papacy. It
settles the vexatious question of the relationship between the Holy See and
Italy. The papacy accepts the loss of the Papal States, while Italy recognizes
the Vatican City as an independent state. A financial settlement is also
involved.
1929 May
Ernst (Teddy) Thalmann, leader of the Communist Party, provokes a series of riots in Berlin's working-class districts.
1929 May 16
The first Academy Awards, with just twelve categories, is held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hall. Only about 270 people attended the dinner.
1929 June 7
The Young Plan is signed in Paris and afterward the Nazi finances quickly improve.
1929 June 7
The sovereign state of Vatican City comes into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty are exchanged in Rome. (NY Times)
1929 August
The German luxury liners Bremen and Europa are launched in Bremerhaven and Hamburg. They are the largest and fastest ships of their kind in the world.
1929 August
In November 1949, the widow of General Ludendorff, on trial at Nuremberg, told the judges that her husband broke with Hiter because, "...as early as the summer of 1929, James P. Warburg had undertaken an assignment from financial circles in America, which desired to exercise solitary influence on Germany in the unleashing of a national revolution. Warburg's task," she said, "was to find the suitable man in Germany, and he entered into contract with Adolph Hitler who subequently received sums of money amounting to 27 million dollars up to January 30, 1932, and still another seven million thereafter, enabling him to finance his movement." (Williams Intelligence Summary, Feb. 1950)
1929 August 7
The"Völkischer Beobachter," no. 181, reports that during the annual Party gathering at Nuremberg Hitler had held up the ancient Spartan policy of selective infanticide as an archetype (a model) for Germany. "If Germany every year would have one million children," Hitler said, "and would eliminate 700 -800,000 of the weakest, the end result would probably be an increase in (national) strength."
1929 August 24
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (Mohammed Yasser Abdul-Ra’ouf Qudwa Al-Husseini) is born in the Gaza Strip.
1929 September
Hitler moves into an elegant, luxury apartment on Munich's Prinzregentenplatz.
1929 September
The New York Stock Exchange peaks at 216, the climax of a three-year "bull" market.
1929 September 27
The International Congress of Eugenics is held in Rome. Dr. C. B. Davenport, an American and president of the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, sends Mussolini a memorandum, written by
Professor Fischer (Berlin), on the importance of eugenics: "Maximum speed is necessary; the danger is enormous." (Science)
