* Alexander I of Yugoslavia ( 1929 – 1934 ), King of Yugoslavia

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

On 14 January 1929, Amanullah abdicated in favor of his brother, King Inayatullah Khan.

However, his rule was short lived and, on 17 October 1929, Habibullah Kalakani was overthrown and replaced by King Nadir Khan.

From 1925 to 1929, Fascism steadily became entrenched in power: opposition deputies were denied access to parliament, censorship was introduced, and a December 1925 decree made Mussolini solely responsible to the King.

* 1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1968 )

* 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution ( the January 6th Dictatorship ).

Seraj-ul-Emarat, the residence of Amir Habibullah and King Amanullah was destroyed in 1929 when Habibullah Kalakani rose to power ; the other sanctuaries however, retain vestiges of the past.

* September 1928 — A jirga at Paghman, called by King Amanullah, the third loya jirga of his reign ( 1919 – 1929 ) to discuss reforms.

The following all-color musicals were produced in 1929 and 1930 alone: The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), The Vagabond King ( 1930 ), Follow Thru ( 1930 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), The Rogue Song ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Whoopee!

* Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ), American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement

Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ) was a minister and Civil Rights activist.

* 1929 – Teddi King, American singer ( d. 1977 )

King Alexander I banned national political parties in 1929, assumed executive power and renamed the country Yugoslavia.

* July 23 – King Hassan II of Morocco ( b. 1929 )

Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( assassinated ) ( b. 1929 )

Early in 1929, the Afghan leader King Amanullah lost power through revolution and civil war to Amir Habibullah II.

Negotiations for the settlement of the Roman Question began in 1926 between the government of Italy and the Holy See, and culminated in the agreements of the Lateran Pacts, signed — the Treaty says — for King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy by Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister and Head of Government, and for Pope Pius XI by Pietro Gasparri, Cardinal Secretary of State, on February 11, 1929.

Although a badge was worn in the 17th century, it was not until 1929 that King George V granted permission for all baronets ( other than those of Scotland ) to wear badges.

In 1929, Palestine Hotels Ltd. purchased on Jerusalem's Julian ’ s Way, today King David Street.

The impasse was resolved in 1929 by the Lateran Treaties negotiated by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini between King Victor Emmanuel III and Pope Pius XI.

The culmination of the Serbian police terror took place during the personal dictatorship of king Aleksandar Karađorđević since 1929.

It was under this challenging title that in 1913 the essay was translated into French and did not appear in German until 1929: " The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects ", Loos proclaimed, linking the optimistic sense of the linear and upward progress of cultures with the contemporary vogue for applying evolution to cultural contexts.

Later, when king Alexander proclaimed dictatorship and Yugoslavia on January 6, 1929, all national symbols were banned and Croats, Slovenes and Serbs were described just as three branches of one newly proclaimed Yugoslav nation.

After the unitarianist King Alexander I proclaimed a dictatorship in 1929, the Organization of Serbian Chetniks Petar Mrkonjić was banned while the Organization of Chetniks for Freedom and Honour of the Fatherland was allowed to continue operating.

It merged with neighboring Suma town on April 1, 1929 and was proclaimed Hiratsuka city on April 1, 1932.

* the fact that the Croatian Parliament had never sanctioned the decision of the National Council of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs to unite with Serbia and Montenegro in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( 1 December 1918 ), subsequently ( 3 October 1929 ) proclaimed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ;

King Alexander subsequently proclaimed a royal dictatorship on January 6, 1929.

The Borough of Mentone and Mordialloc was established in 1920 and re-subdivided in 1929 and later proclaimed a City in 1934.

* Rita de Acosta Lydig ( 1876 – 1929 ), a famous socialite of the early 1900s who was proclaimed one of the most beautiful women in the world

In 1929, he was proclaimed in the " Performing Right Gazette " as " Britain ’ s greatest living composer ", on the basis of the number of performances of his works.

Under USDA Forest Service administration, the mountain was proclaimed " Holy Cross National Monument " by Herbert Hoover on May 11, 1929.

Earlier in the same year, his name had been pending for elevation to the peerage by King George V. On May 2, 1929, the King proclaimed "... Cara Leland Broughton, widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, may henceforth enjoy the same style and title as if her husband ... had survived and received the title and dignity of Baron Fairhaven ".

The town was proclaimed a township and gazetted in 1885, and reached its peak in the 1920s, prior to the construction of a new telegraph line further north alongside the Trans-Australian Railway in 1929.

Just a few weeks earlier, his name had been pending for elevation to the peerage by King George V. On May 2, 1929, the king proclaimed that " Cara Leland Broughton, widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, may henceforth enjoy the same style and title as if her husband ... had survived and received the title and dignity of Baron Fairhaven ".

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

The political situation in the new kingdom deteriorated, leading to the dictatorship of King Alexander in January 1929.

Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda ( born May 4, 1929 ) is a Chilean military officer and the former head of DINA, Chile's secret police during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Under the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera ( 1923 – 30 ), his party was debilitated when its left wing, led by Marcelino Domingo, left to form the Radical Socialist Republican Party in 1929.

Only a few years after his rise to literary celebrity with the 1929 publication of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Döblin was forced into exile by the rise of the Nazi dictatorship.

* 1929: monarchic dictatorship is established and parties are banned

In 1929 King Alexander Karageorgevich introduced dictatorship.

During the dictatorship of King Alexander ( 1929 – 1934 ), Cankar's works were removed from the school curriculum, because he was considered a dangerous advocate of Slovene particularism and nationalism.

After the March on Rome, Tittoni supported Mussolini's government and later became the first president of Royal Academy of Italy ( 28 October 1929 – 16 September 1930 ), the most important cultural institution of the fascist dictatorship.