<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Lahaut" id="mw9Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Julien Lahaut">Julien Lahaut</a>, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium, is assassinated. The Party newspaper blames royalists and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexist_Party" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rexist Party">Rexists</a>.