1924

For the rap album, see 1924 (album).

1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January

• January 7 - Great fire in London harbour - source???
• January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - forty three 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 Prime Minister.
• January 23 - Soviet Union officially declares that Lenin died January 21.
• January 24 - Author Lloyd Alexander is born.
• January 25 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• January 26 - Petrograd (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 12 - Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.
• February 14 - 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

• Adolf Hitler begins dictating his book, Mein Kampf (or in English, My Struggle), while imprisoned in Bavaria.
• 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 8 - Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States
• 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 ⅔ 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 Bureau of Investigation.
• May 11 - Mercedes-Benz formed by the merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.
• May 21 - University of Chicago students 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 born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• June 3 - Franz Kafka dies in Vienna, Austria. His death is attributed to starvation, brought on by worsening Tuberculosis
• 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 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

July

• July 20 - A Soviet sports newspaper Sovetskiy Sport is founded.

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 10 - Alpha Delta Gamma National Fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
• 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
• October 27 - The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union.

November

• November 4 - Nellie Tayloe Ross 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
• November 19 - In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a 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 air field - 8 dead.
• December 24 - Albania becomes a republic.

Unknown date

• Earl Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at Stirling, Alberta Canada
• 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 a series of murders.
• California Parlor Car Tours was formed in San Francisco.

Births

January

• January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach and broadcaster
• January 6 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
• January 11 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recipient 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 (d. 2006)
• January 26 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)
• January 27 - Sabu, Indian actor (d. 1963)
• January 29 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
• January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer

February

• February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born producer and musician
• February 17 - Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman
• 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 22 - Dr. J-D Hudson, British Proffesor
• 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

• March 1 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (d. 1993)
• March 3 - John Woodnutt, British actor (d. 2006)
• 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, British author (d. 2003)

April

• 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 6 - Jimmy Roberts, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 1999)
• April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
• April 15 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist
• April 16 - Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994)
• April 18 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American blues musician (d. 2005)
• April 19 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006
• April 24 - Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician

May

• 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
• May 24 - Vincent Cronin, British historical writer and biographer
• May 24 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist

June

• June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
• June 2 - June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author & social activist
• June 3 - Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• June 4 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
• 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 24 - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• June 27 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
• June 29 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
• June 29 - Ezra Laderman, American composer

July

• July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, American actress
• July 5 - János Starker, Hungarian cellist
• July 11 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
• July 13 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor
• July 13 - Johnny Gilbert, American game show announcer
• July 14 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• July 19 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician
• July 21 - Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
• July 28 - Stanley Kiedrowski, American radar mechanic (d. 2000)
• July 29 - Elizabeth Short , American actress, also known as 'The Black Dahlia'

August

• August 1 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• August 2 - John Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
• August 3 - Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003)
• August 7 - Kenneth Kendall, British newsreader and presenter
• 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 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

• September 2 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
• September 4 - Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)
• September 5 - Paul Dietzel, College football coach
• 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 21 - Hermann Buhl,Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)
• September 22 - Charles Keeping, English illustrator (d. 1988)
• September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
• September 24 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
• September 27 - Bernard Waber, American children's author
• September 30 - Truman Capote, American author

October

• 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 8 - Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• October 10 - 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

• November 6 - Jeanette Schmid, Famous whistler (d. 2005)
• November 10 - Russell Johnson, American actor
• November 13 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist (d. 1994)
• November 19 - William Russell, British actor
• November 20 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician
• November 24 - Mel Patton, American athlete
• November 25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
• November 28 - Dennis Brutus, South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist

December

• 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)
• December 31 - Taylor Mead, American actor
• 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 - March

• January 2 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
• January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and first Premier of the Soviet Union (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 - June

• 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 - September

• 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 Urysohn, Russian mathematician (b. 1898)
• September 15 - Frank Chance, baseball player and manager (b. 1877)

October - December

• October 12 - Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• November 4 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
• November 29 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
• December 6 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
• December 29 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• December 31 - Sir Samuel William Knaggs, British civil servant (b. 1856)

Nobel prizes

• Physics - Manne Siegbahn
• Chemistry - Bryan Hymer
• Physiology or Medicine - Willem Einthoven
• Literature - Władysław Stanisław Reymont
• Peace - Fermin Romo

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