Prince Kwacho Hirotada

1924

Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1924

January

January 7 - Great fire in London harbour.
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 25 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
January 26 - Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad.
January 27 - Lenin is buried in a mausoleum (Lenin's Tomb.jpg) in Moscow's Red Square.

February

February 1 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union.
February 4 - Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds.
February 5 - GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
February 7 - 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 - Third Ministry 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. He will serve only nine months.
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 13 - A.E.K is founded.
April 16 - American Media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer is founded.
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 of 1924 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 7 - Ed Farhat, "The Original Sheik", is born.
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 17 - Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.
July 20 - A Soviet sports newspaper Sovetskiy Sport is founded.

August

August 18 - France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.
August 28 - Georgia rose against the Soviet Union in the abortive rebellion in which several thousands died.

September

September 9

Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii
8-hour work day introduced in Belgium

September 9 - 11 - 1924 Kohat riots

October

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.
Dixie Dean scores a hat-trick for Tranmere Rovers to become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites

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.
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 New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

December

December 1

Failed communist coup attempt in Estonia.
Premiere of George Gershwin's Lady Be Good, with the song Fascinating Rhythm (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin), New York, NY.

December 19 - Fritz Haarmann sentenced to death for a series of murders.
December 24

Air crash in Croydon air field - 8 dead.
Albania becomes a republic.

Undated

The powerful opiate, hydromorphone is developed in Germany.
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at Stirling, Alberta Canada
Alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York
André Breton defines surrealism as "pure psychic automatism" in the first Surrealist Manifesto.
US bootleggers begin to use Thompson SMGs.
Earth Inductor Compass

Births

January-February

January 1 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach and broadcaster (d. 2005)
January 4 - Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer
January 6 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
January 10 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (d. 2007)
January 11

Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
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 (d. 2007)
February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born producer and musician
February 7 - Hattie Jacques, English star of the Carry On films (d. 1980)
February 9 - George Guest, Welsh choral conductor (d. 2002)
February 17 - Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008)
February 19 - Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
February 20

Gerson Goldhaber, particle physicist and Astrophysicist
Gloria Vanderbilt, American cosmetics entrepreneur

February 21 - Robert Mugabe, first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
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-April

March 1 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (d. 1993)
March 2 - Wendell Wise Mayes, Jr. He received the first Wendell Mayes, Jr. Medal in 1986. The Diabetes Association named the highest award given to non-medical professional volunteers, in his honor.
March 3 - John Woodnutt, British actor (d. 2006)
March 3 - Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)
March 4 - Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
March 7 - Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993)
March 15 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
March 27 - Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer (d. 1990)
March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, British actor (d. 1992)
March 30 - Alan Davidson, British author (d. 2003)
April 1 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
April 3

Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (d. 2005)
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 12 - Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
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)
Henry Hyde, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois (d. 2007)

April 19 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006)
April 23 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
April 24 - Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician

May-June

May 1 - Art Fleming, American actor, game show host, original host of Jeopardy!. (d. 1995)
May 2 - Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004)
May 11 - Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
May 12 - Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)
May 13 - Beatrice Arthur, Actress, Golden Girls star
May 18 - Priscilla Pointer, American actress
May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
May 22 - Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, and songwriter
May 24