See:
Wikipedia.
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 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 Atatürk.
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 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 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".
1924 in
film:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wizard of Oz. MGM
and Frank J. Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.
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 57 2/5
seconds breaking the world record.
Births:
January 3 -
Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster.
January 6 -
Earl Scruggs, bluegrass performer.
January 8 -
Boudewina Janna (Bouke) van den Houten.
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 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 9 -
Willemina van den Ree.
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 11 -
Marinus van den Houten.
June 20 -
Audie Murphy, WW II hero, actor, (d. 1971).
July 4 -
Eva Marie Saint, actress: North by Northwest, On the Waterfront.
July 17 -
Adriana Daleboudt.
August 12 -
Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988).
August 21 -
Jacomijntje van den Houten.
September 22 -
Rosamunde Pilcher, Novelist.
October 6 -
Cornelia Bouwman.
October 7 -
Izaak Gijsbertus van den Houten.
October 9 -
William van Houten.
November 20 -
Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician.
December 2 -
Alexander M. Haig, Jr., US politician.
December 18 -
Adriana van den Hoek.
Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni
lmarhum Sultan Badlishah, later Sultan of Kedah and 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Aksel Leon (Aksel) Andreassen.
Stillborn:
April 13 -
Stillborn Heijt.
Deaths:
January 21 -
Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR.
February 3 -
Woodrow Wilson, US President.
May 15 -
Paul d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat.
May 18 -
Johanna Jacoba van den Houten.
June 11 -
Théodore Dubois, composer and teacher.
July 27 -
Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer.
August 17 -
Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician.
November 9 -
Annetje Hagedoorn.
November 29 -
Giacomo Puccini - Italian grand opera composer.
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