1929 - Religion

Religion

Apostolic Faith Church founder Charles Fox Parham dies at Baxter Springs, Kansas, January 29 at age 55, having established the Pentacostalist movement; Baptist leader Frederick T. Gates dies at Phoenix, Ariz., February 8 at age 75 after more than 35 years of guiding John D. Rockefeller's philanthropic activities.

A dispute over Jewish use of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall leads in August to the first large-scale Arab attacks on Jews, 133 of whom are killed along with 116 Arabs. The mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini has exploited Arab fears about Zionism (see 1930).