1924

Years: 1921 1922 1923 - 1924 - 1925 1926 1927
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1924 in aviation 1924 in film 1924 in literature 1924 in music 1924 in science 1924 in sports 1924 state leaders 1924 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes
6 External links

Events

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 24 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad
January 25 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
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 22 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
March 3 - 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 AtatÃÂ¼rk.
March 9 - Italy annexes Fiume
March 25 - Greece proclaims it is a republic.
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.
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.
May 21 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing."
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 10 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
June 16 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded
October 2 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
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 24 - Albania becomes a republic
December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
Andre Breton founds surrealism, defining it as "pure psychic automatism"

Year in topic

1924 in aviation
1924 in film
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. MGM and Frank J. Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.
1924 in literature
1924 in music
- "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin
1924 in sports
- February 17 - In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100-yard freestyle swimming competition with a time of 52-2/5 seconds.
- February 24 - Johnny Weissmuller finishes the 100-meter swimming event in seconds breaking the world record.

Births

January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster
January 6 - Earl Scruggs, bluegrass performer
January 11 - Slim Harpo, musician
January 12 - Olivier Gendebien, race car driver (d. 1998)
January 16 - Katy Jurado, actress (d. 2002)
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 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 27 - Sarah Vaughan, singer (d. 1990)
March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (d. 1992)
March 30 - Alan Davidson, author (d. 2003)
April 3 - Doris Day, actress
April 3 - Marlon Brando, actor
April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
April 24 - Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality and politician
May 12 - Tony Hancock, comedian (d. 1968)
May 17 - Hannes Messemer, actor (d. 1991)
May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
May 22 - Charles Aznavour, singer, actor, composer
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, United States President
June 20 - Audie Murphy, WW II hero, actor, (d. 1971)
July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, actress: North by Northwest, On the Waterfront
August 12 - Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988)
September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, Novelist
October 1 - Jimmy Carter, United States President
October 11 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
November 13 - Motoo Kimura, population geneticist
November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician
November 24 - Mel Patton, American athlete
December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr, US politician
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
May 4 - E. Nesbit - English author
May 15 - Paul 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
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

Nobel Prizes

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

External links

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