1924

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 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 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 - UK recognizes Soviet Union.
• 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 - IBM corporation founded.
• February 16 - 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 Atatrk.
• March 9 - Italy annexes Fiume
• March 25 - Greece proclaims it is a republic.
• March 29 - Government of Raymond Poincar 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 27 - Group of Alawites kill some Christian nuns in Syria – French troops march against them.
• 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 21 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a thrill killing.

June

• 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 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 16 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded.

August

• August 18 - France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.

September

• September 9 - 8-hour work day in Belgium

October

• 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.

November

• November 4 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
• November - 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.
• December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other 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

• January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster
• January 6 - Earl Scruggs, bluegrass performer
• January 11 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
• January 11 - Slim Harpo, musician
• January 12 - Olivier Gendebien, race car driver (d. 1998)
• January 16 - Katy Jurado, actress (d. 2002)
• January 19 - Jean-Francois Revel, French author
• January 21 - Telly Savalas, actor (d. 1994)
• January 26 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)
• January 27 - Sabu, actor (d. 1963)
• January 29 - Luigi Nono, composer (d. 1990)
• January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, writer

February

• February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American producer and musician
• February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer (d. 2000)
• February 11 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
• February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S. Truman
• February 19 - Lee Marvin, actor (d. 1987)
• February 20 - Gloria Vanderbilt, cosmetics entrepreneur
• February 21 - Robert Mugabe, first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
• February 29 - Al Rosen, baseball player

March

• March 1 - Deke Slayton, astronaut († 1993)
• March 7 - Kobo Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993)
• March 27 - Sarah Vaughan, singer (d. 1990)
• March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (d. 1992)
• March 30 - Alan Davidson, author (d. 2003)

April

• April 1 - Brendan Byrne, governor of New Jersey
• April 3 - Doris Day, actress
• April 3 - Marlon Brando, actor (d. 2004)
• 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, blues musician

May

• May 12 - Tony Hancock, comedian (d. 1968)
• May 17 - Hannes Messemer, actor (d. 1991)
• May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
• May 22 - Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, composer

June

• June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, radical clergyman
• June 3 - Torsten Wiesel, scientist, winner of 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• June 12 - George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st United States President
• June 20 - Chet Atkins, American country guitar player (d. 2001)
• June 20 - Audie Murphy, WW II hero, actor, (d. 1971)
• June 29 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer

July

• July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, actress
• July 5 - Janos Starker, Hungarian cellist
• July 13 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor
• July 19-Stanley K. Hathaway, U.S. politician

August

• August 12 - Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988)
• August 12 - Derek Shackleton, Hampshire and England medium-pace bowler
• August 29 - Consuelo Velzquez, Mexican songwriter and lyricist (d. 2005)

September

• September 2 - Daniel arap Moi, longtime president of Kenya.
• September 19 - Don Harron, entertainer
• September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, Novelist
• September 22 - Charles Keeping, illustrator

October

• October 1 - Jimmy Carter, United States President
• October 1 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• October 10 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
• October 11 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
• October 12 - Doris Grau, actress, script supivisor and voice actress (d. 1995)
• October 15 - Mark Lenard, actor (d. 1996)

November

• November 13 - Motoo Kimura, population geneticist
• November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician
• November 24 - Mel Patton, American athlete

December

• December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr., US politician
• December 25 - Rod Serling, screenwriter of the science-fiction TV series, The Twilight Zone
• December 25 - Atal Behari Vajpayee, tenth prime minister of India
• December 25 - Moktar Ould Daddah, first president of Mauritania
• Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, later Sultan of Kedah and 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Deaths

• January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
• February 3 - Woodrow Wilson, US President
• March 1 - Louise-Marie Amlie, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1858)
• May 4 - E. Nesbit - English author
• May 15 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat
• May 22 - Bobby Franks - murder victim
• May 24 - Victor Herbert - Irish dramatist
• June 3 - Franz Kafka - Austrian author
• June 10 - George Mallory - English mountain climber
• June 11 - Thodore Dubois, composer and teacher
• July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer
• August 3 - Joseph Conrad - Polish born author
• August 17 - Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
• September 15 - Frank Chance - Chicago Cubs Manager/First baseman
• October 12 - Anatole France - Nobel Prize winner
• November 29 - Giacomo Puccini - Italian grand opera composer
• December 7 - Gene Stratton-Porter - author
• December 31 - Sir Samuel William Knaggs - civil servant (West Indies)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Manne Siegbahn
• Chemistry - not awarded
• Medicine - Willem Einthoven
• Literature - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
• Peace - Not awarded.

External link

• A young man's observations of life journeying from Australia to Europe via the Mayo Clinic

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