Editing 1929 (section)

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1929}}
* [[January 6]]
** [[6 January Dictatorship]]: King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes]] suspends his country's constitution.
** [[Albania]]n missionary [[Nun|sister]] Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later known as [[Mother Teresa]], arrives in [[Calcutta]] from Ireland to begin her work in India.
* [[January 10]] – The first appearance of [[Hergé]]'s Belgian [[comic book]] hero [[Tintin (character)|Tintin]], as ''[[Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets''), begins serialization in the children's newspaper supplement, ''[[Le Petit Vingtième]]''.
* [[January 17]] – The [[comic strip]] hero [[Popeye]] first appears in ''Thimble Theatre''.<ref>{{cite web|work=Don Markstein's Toonopedia|title=Popeye the Sailor|url=http://www.toonopedia.com/popeye.htm|access-date=2011-09-22}}</ref>
*[[January 17]] – [[Kabul]] falls to [[Habibullāh Kalakāni]]'s forces, beginning a 9-month period of [[Saqqawist]] rule in Afghanistan while the [[Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)|Afghan Civil War]] continues.
* [[January 29]] – ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' (''Im Westen nichts Neues''), by [[Erich Maria Remarque]], is published in book form.