1924

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Table of contents

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

Events

\n* January 21 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership. \n* January 22 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister. \n* January 24 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad\n* January 25 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games. \n* February 5 - GMT: Hourly time signals from Royal Greenwich Observatory are broadcasted for the first time. \n* February 8 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada. \n* February 14 - IBM corporation founded.\n* February 22 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.\n*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 Atatürk.\n* March 9 - Italy annexes Fiume\n* March 25 - Greece proclaims it is a republic.\n* 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.\n* May 3 - The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, founded.\n* May 4 - The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies held in Paris, France.\n* May 10 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head the Federal Bureau of Investigation. \n* May 21 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing." \n* 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. \n* June 5 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).\n* June 10 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome. \n* June 16 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded \n* October 2 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations. \n* November 4 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.\n* November - Calvin Coolidge defeats John W. Davis in the U.S. presidential election\n* 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).\n* November 27 - In the New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. \n* December 24 - Albania becomes a republic\n* December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.

• Andre Breton founds surrealism, defining it as "pure psychic automatism"

Year in topic

\n* 1924 in aviation\n* 1924 in film\n**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. \n* 1924 in literature\n* 1924 in music\n**"Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin\n* 1924 in sports\n** 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. \n** February 24 - Johnny Weissmuller finishes the 100-meter swimming event in seconds breaking the world record.

Births

\n* January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster\n* January 6 - Earl Scruggs, bluegrass performer\n* January 11 - Slim Harpo, musician\n* January 12 - Olivier Gendebien, race car driver (d. 1998)\n* January 16 - Katy Jurado, actress (d. 2002)\n* January 21 - Telly Savalas, actor (d. 1994)\n* January 26 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)\n* January 27 - Sabu, actor (d. 1963)\n* January 29 - Luigi Nono, composer (d. 1990)\n* January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, writer\n* February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American producer and musician\n* February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer (d. 2000)\n* February 11 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian\n* February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S. Truman\n* February 19 - Lee Marvin, actor (d. 1987)\n* February 20 - Gloria Vanderbilt, cosmetics entrepreneur\n* February 21 - Robert Mugabe, first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe\n* February 29 - Al Rosen, baseball player\n* March 1 - Louise-Marie Amélie, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1858)\n* March 27 - Sarah Vaughan, singer (d. 1990)\n* March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (d. 1992)\n* March 30 - Alan Davidson, author (d. 2003)\n* April 3 - Doris Day, actress\n* April 3 - Marlon Brando, actor\n* April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer\n* April 24 - Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality and politician\n* May 12 - Tony Hancock, comedian (d. 1968)\n* May 17 - Hannes Messemer, actor (d. 1991)\n* May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer\n* May 22 - Charles Aznavour, singer, actor, composer\n* June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, radical clergyman\n* June 3 - Torsten Wiesel, scientist, winner of 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine\n* June 12 - George Herbert Walker Bush, United States President\n* June 20 - Audie Murphy, WW II hero, actor, (d. 1971)\n* July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, actress: North by Northwest, On the Waterfront\n* August 12 - Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988)\n* September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, Novelist \n* October 1 - Jimmy Carter, United States President\n* October 11 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete\n* November 13 - Motoo Kimura, population geneticist\n* November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician\n* November 24 - Mel Patton, American athlete\n* December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr, US politician\n* December 25 - Atal Behari Vajpayee, tenth prime minister of India\n* December 25 - Moktar Ould Daddah, first president of Mauritania\n*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

\n* January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR\n* February 3 - Woodrow Wilson, US President\n* May 4 - E. Nesbit - English author\n* May 15 - Paul d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat\n* May 22 - Bobby Franks - murder victim\n* May 24 - Victor Herbert - Irish dramatist\n* June 3 - Franz Kafka - Austrian author\n* June 10 - George Mallory - English mountain climber\n* June 11 - Théodore Dubois, composer and teacher\n* July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer\n* August 3 - Joseph Conrad - Polish born author\n* August 17 - Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician\n* September 15 - Frank Chance - Chicago Cubs Manager/First baseman\n* October 12 - Anatole France - Nobel Prize winner\n* November 29 - Giacomo Puccini - Italian grand opera composer\n* December 7 - Gene Stratton-Porter - author

Nobel Prizes

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

External links

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