1924
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'''1924''' '''(MCMXXIV)''' was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
January 7 - Great fire in London harbour
January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England
January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead.
January 12 - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested soon after
January 21 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
January 22 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Party (UK)|Labour Prime Minister.
January 23 - Soviet Union officially declares that Lenin died January 21.
January 25 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix|Chamonix, France (in the France|French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
January 26 - Petrograd (Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad.
January 27 - Lenin is buried in a mausoleum in the Red Square.
February
February 1 - The United Kingdom recognizes Soviet Union.
February 1 - Australian Loans Council meets for the first time
February 4 - Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds.
February 5 - GMT: Hourly time signals from Royal Greenwich Observatory are broadcasted for the first time.
February 8 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
February 14 - International Business Machines|IBM corporation founded.
February 16-February 26 - Dock strike in US harbors.
February 22 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
March
March 1 - Diana Vreeland, fashion editor and columnist, marries Thomas Reed Vreeland at St. Thomas's church in New York.
March 3 - The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk.
March 9 - Italy annexes Fiume
March 25 - Greece proclaims it is a republic.
March 29 - Government of Raymond Poincaré starts in France.
April
April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch. However he was only in jail for nine months.
April 1 - First revenue flight for Belgium's SABENA Airlines.
April 6 - Fascists win elections in Italy with 2/3 majority.
April 13 - Referendum in Greece favors the formation of Hellenic Republic.
April 26 - Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London but fails to convince British War Office
April 27 - Group of Alawites kill some Christian nuns in Syria – French troops march against them.
May
May 3 - The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, founded.
May 4 - The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies held in Paris, France.
May 10 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head the Federal Bureau of Investigation|Bureau of Investigation.
May 21 - University of Chicago students Leopold and Loeb|Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a thrill killing.
June
June 1 - Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London - he tries to use a Pathe film to demonstrate that his death ray works
June 2 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
June 5 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).
June 8 - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers were never seen alive again.
June 10 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italy|Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
June 12 - the Roundout Heist - Six men of Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Roundout, Illinois. Robbery is later found to have been an inside job
June 16 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
June 23 - American airman Russell L. Maughan flew from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit plane.
August-October
August 18 - France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.
September 9 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii
September 9 - 8-hour work day in Belgium
October 2 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
October 19 - Abdul Azis declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.
October 22 - Toastmasters is founded.
October 24 - British Foreign Office publishes Zinoviev Letter.
October 25 - British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next two and half years
November
November 4 - Fermin Romo of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
November 4 - Calvin Coolidge defeats John W. Davis in the U.S. presidential election, 1924|U.S. presidential election
November 19 - In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a myocardial infarction|heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
November 27 - In the New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
December
December 12 - Failed communist takeover attempt in Estonia
December 24 - Air crash in Croydon Airport|Croydon air field - 8 dead.
December 24 - Albania becomes a republic.
December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxy|galaxies.
Unknown date
Andre Breton founds surrealism, defining it as "pure psychic automatism"
Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia
US bootleggers begin to use Thompson SMGs
Fritz Haarmann sentenced to death for 27 murders
Births
January-February
January 2 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach and broadcaster
January 6 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
January 11 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recpient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 11 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
January 11 - Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
January 12 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)
January 16 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
January 19 - Jean-Francois Revel, French author
January 21 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
January 26 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)
January 27 - Sabu Dastagir|Sabu, Indian actor (d. 1963)
January 29 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer
February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born producer and musician
February 17 - Margaret Truman, American novelist
February 19 - Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
February 20 - Gloria Vanderbilt, American cosmetics entrepreneur
February 21 - Robert Mugabe, first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
February 23 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
February 29 - Al Rosen, baseball player
March-May
March 1 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (d. 1993)
March 7 - Kobo Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993)
March 15 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
March 27 - Sarah Vaughan, American jaz singer (d. 1990)
March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, British actor (d. 1992)
March 30 - Alan Davidson (food writer)|Alan Davidson, British author (d. 2003)
April 1 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
April 3 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
April 3 - Doris Day, American actress
April 4 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. 1972)
April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
April 15 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist
April 24 - Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
April 25 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
May 11 - Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
May 12 - Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)
May 18 - Priscilla Pointer, American actress
May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
May 22 - Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, and songwriter
June-August
June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman
June 3 - Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 12 - George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st United States President
June 18 - George Mikan, basketball player (d. 2005)
June 20 - Chet Atkins, American country guitar player (d. 2001)
June 20 - Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971)
June 27 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
June 29 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
June 29 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, American actress
July 5 - Janos Starker, Hungarian cellist
July 13 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor
July 14 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
July 19 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician
August 1 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate
August 2 - Carroll O'Connor|John Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
August 3 - Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003)
August 12 - Derek Shackleton, English cricketer
August 12 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
August 15 - Robert Bolt, English writer (d. 1995)
August 23 - Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate
August 28 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
August 29 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
August 31 - Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor (d. 2003)
September-October
September 2 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
September 4 - Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)
September 8 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
September 9 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
September 11 - Tom Landry, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
September 19 - Don Harron, Canadian entertainer
September 22 - Charles Keeping, English illustrator (d. 1988)
September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
October 1 - Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 1 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
October 10 - Ed Wood, Jr.|Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
October 11 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
October 12 - Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995)
October 15 - Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
October 21 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (d. 2003)
November-December
November 13 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist (d. 1994)
November 19 - William Russell (actor)|William Russell, British actor
November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician
November 24 - Mel Patton, American athlete
November 25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American politician
December 25 - Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (d. 1975)
December 25 - Atal Behari Vajpayee, tenth Prime Minister of India
December 25 - Moktar Ould Daddah, first President of Mauritania (d. 2003)
December 28 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, King of Malaysia
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Deaths
January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR (b. 1870)
January 24 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
February 3 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)
April 21 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
May 4 - E. Nesbit, English author (b. 1858)
May 15 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
May 24 - Victor Herbert, Irish dramatist (b. 1859)
June 3 - Franz Kafka, Austrian author (b. 1883)
June 10 - George Mallory, English mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1886)
June 11 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837)
July 23 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1860)
July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1866)
August 3 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born author (b. 1857)
August 17 - Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn|Pavel Urysohn, Russian mathematician (b. 1898)
September 15 - Frank Chance, baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
October 12 - Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
November 4 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
November 29 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
December 7 - Gene Stratton Porter, American author (b. 1863)
December 29 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
December 31 - Samuel William Knaggs|Sir Samuel William Knaggs, British civil servant (b. 1856)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics - Manne Siegbahn
Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry - Bryan Hymer
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Physiology or Medicine - Willem Einthoven
Nobel Prize in literature|Literature - Wladyslaw Reymont|Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace - Fermin Romo
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