Abdul Rahman Antulay was an Indian politician. Antulay was a union minister for Minority Affairs and a Member of Parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha of India. Earlier he had been the Chief Minister of the state of Maharashtra, but was forced to resign after being convicted by the Bombay High Court on charges that he had extorted money for a trust fund he managed. Later, the Supreme Court of India gave him a clean chit in that case.

1929Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (died 2005)^[†]

Clement Meadmore was an Australian-American furniture designer and sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures.

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1929Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.^[†]

The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, also known as the Vietnamese Nationalist Party and abbreviated VNQDĐ or Việt Quốc, was a nationalist and democratic socialist political party that sought independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam during the early 20th century. Its origins lie in a group of young Hanoi-based intellectuals who began publishing revolutionary material in the mid-1920s. In 1927, after the publishing house failed because of French harassment and censorship, the VNQDĐ was formed under the leadership of Nguyễn Thái Học. Modelling itself on the Kuomintang of Nationalist China the VNQDĐ gained a small following among northerners, particularly teachers and intellectuals. The party, which was less successful among peasants and industrial workers, and was organised in small clandestine cells.

Headlines from February 9, 1929

BOMBAY RIOTS ANEW IN PEACE PROCESSION; Leader of Parade Stumbles Over Dead Hindu and at Once Hostilities Are Resumed. 30 MORE DEAD, 100 HURT Each Side Blames the Other for Breaking Truce on Sixth Day of Disorders.

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