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'''1924''' '''(MCMXXIV)''' was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] (link will take you to calendar).

==Events==
{{Year FE}}
===January===
* [[January 7]] - Great fire in London harbour
* [[January 8]] - Heavy [[blizzard]]s in England
* [[January 10]] - British submarine L-34 sinks in the [[English Channel]] - 43 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 Party (UK)|Labour]] Prime Minister.
* [[January 23]] - [[Soviet Union]] officially declares that [[Lenin]] died January 21.
* [[January 25]] - The [[1924 Winter Olympics]] open in [[Chamonix|Chamonix, France]] (in the [[France|French]] [[Alps]]), inaugurating the [[Winter Olympic Games]].
* [[January 26]] - Petrograd ([[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]) is renamed Leningrad.
* [[January 27]] - [[Lenin]] is buried in a mausoleum in the [[Red Square]].

===February===
* [[February 1]] - The [[United Kingdom]] recognizes [[Soviet Union]].
* [[February 1]] - [[Australian Loans Council]] meets for the first time
* [[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]] - [[International Business Machines|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===
* [[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 [[caliph]]ate 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 9]] - [[Italy]] annexes [[Fiume]]
* [[March 25]] - [[Greece]] proclaims it is a [[republic]].
* [[March 29]] - Government 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]]. However he was only in jail for nine months.
* [[April 1]] - First revenue flight for [[Belgium]]'s [[SABENA]] Airlines.
* [[April 6]] - [[Fascist]]s win elections in [[Italy]] with 2/3 majority.
* [[April 13]] - [[Referendum]] in [[Greece]] favors the formation of [[Hellenic Republic]].
* [[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 [[Jew]]ish 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|Bureau of Investigation]].
* [[May 21]] - [[University of Chicago]] students [[Leopold and Loeb|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]] into law, granting [[citizenship]] to all [[Native Americans in the United States|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 [[mountaineer]]s were never seen alive again.
* [[June 10]] - [[Fascist]]s kidnap and kill [[Italy|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 plane.

===August-October===
* [[August 18]] - France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.
* [[September 9]] - [[Hanapepe Massacre]] occurs on [[Kauai]], [[Hawaii]]
* [[September 9]] - 8-hour work day in [[Belgium]]
* [[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]].
* [[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]] is created as a republic of the Soviet Union.
===November===
* [[November 4]] - [[Fermin Romo]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]].
* [[November 4]] - [[Calvin Coolidge]] defeats [[John W. Davis]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1924|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 [[myocardial infarction|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 Airport|Croydon air field]] - 8 dead.
* [[December 24]] - [[Albania]] becomes a [[republic]].
* [[December 30]] - [[Edwin Hubble]] announces the existence of other [[galaxy|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-February===
* [[January 2]] - [[Sabine Baring-Gould]], English composer and novelist (b. [[1834]])
* [[January 3]] - [[Hank Stram]], American football coach and broadcaster
* [[January 6]] - [[Earl Scruggs]], American musician
*[[January 11]] - [[Roger Guillemin]], French neuroendocrinologist, recpient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[January 11]] - [[Sam B. Hall]], American politician (d. [[1994]])
* [[January 11]] - [[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
* [[January 21]] - [[Telly Savalas]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
* [[January 26]] - [[Annette Strauss]], American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. [[1998]])
* [[January 27]] - [[Sabu Dastagir|Sabu]], Indian actor (d. [[1963]])
* [[January 29]] - [[Luigi Nono]], Italian composer (d. [[1990]])
* [[January 30]] - [[Lloyd Alexander]], American writer
* [[February 2]] - [[Elfi von Dassanowsky]], Austrian-born producer and musician
* [[February 17]] - [[Margaret Truman]], American novelist
* [[February 19]] - [[Lee Marvin]], American actor (d. [[1987]])
* [[February 20]] - [[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-May===
* [[March 1]] - [[Deke Slayton]], astronaut (d. [[1993]])
* [[March 7]] - [[Kobo Abe]], Japanese novelist (d. [[1993]])
* [[March 15]] - [[Walter Gotell]], German actor (d. [[1997]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Sarah Vaughan]], American jaz singer (d. [[1990]])
* [[March 28]] - [[Freddie Bartholomew]], British actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Alan Davidson (food writer)|Alan Davidson]], British author (d. [[2003]])
* [[April 1]] - [[Brendan Byrne]], Governor of New Jersey
* [[April 3]] - [[Marlon Brando]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
* [[April 3]] - [[Doris Day]], American actress
* [[April 4]] - [[Gil Hodges]], American baseball player (d. [[1972]])
* [[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]], American musician (d. [[1992]])
* [[May 11]] - [[Antony Hewish]], English radio astronomer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]
* [[May 12]] - [[Tony Hancock]], English comedian (d. [[1968]])
* [[May 18]] - [[Priscilla Pointer]], American actress
* [[May 19]] - [[Sandy Wilson]], British composer
* [[May 22]] - [[Charles Aznavour]], French singer, actor, and songwriter

===June-August===
* [[June 1]] - Dr. [[William Sloane Coffin]], American clergyman
* [[June 3]] - [[Torsten Wiesel]], Swedish scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[June 12]] - [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], 41st [[United States President]]
* [[June 18]] - [[George Mikan]], basketball player (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 20]] - [[Chet Atkins]], American country guitar player (d. [[2001]])
* [[June 20]] - [[Audie Murphy]], American World War II hero and actor (d. [[1971]])
* [[June 27]] - [[Bob Appleyard]], English cricketer
* [[June 29]] - [[Flo Sandon's]], Italian singer
* [[June 29]] - [[Ezra Laderman]], American composer
* [[July 4]] - [[Eva Marie Saint]], American actress
* [[July 5]] - [[Janos Starker]], Hungarian cellist
* [[July 13]] - [[Carlo Bergonzi]], Italian tenor
*[[July 14]] - [[James W. Black]], Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[July 19]] - [[Stanley K. Hathaway]], American politician
* [[August 1]] - [[Georges Charpak]], Ukrainian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[August 2]] - [[Carroll O'Connor|John Carroll O'Connor]], American actor (d. [[2001]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Leon Uris]], American writer (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 12]] - [[Derek Shackleton]], English cricketer
* [[August 12]] - [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]], leader of Pakistan (d. [[1988]])
* [[August 15]] - [[Robert Bolt]], English writer (d. [[1995]])
* [[August 23]] - [[Robert Solow]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[August 28]] - [[Peggy Ryan]], American actress (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 29]] - [[Consuelo Velázquez]], Mexican songwriter (d. [[2005]])
* [[August 31]] - [[Buddy Hackett]], American comedian and actor (d. [[2003]])

===September-October===
* [[September 2]] - [[Daniel arap Moi]], [[President of Kenya]]
* [[September 4]] - [[Joan Aiken]], English writer (d. [[2004]])
* [[September 8]] - [[Mimi Parent]], Canadian painter (d. [[2005]])
* [[September 9]] - [[Rik Van Steenbergen]], Belgian cyclist (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 11]] - [[Tom Landry]], American football player and coach (d. [[2000]])
* [[September 19]] - [[Don Harron]], Canadian entertainer
* [[September 22]] - [[Charles Keeping]], English illustrator (d. [[1988]])
* [[September 22]] - [[Rosamunde Pilcher]], English novelist
* [[October 1]] - [[Jimmy Carter]], [[President of the United States]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
* [[October 1]] - [[William Rehnquist]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[October 10]] - [[Ed Wood, Jr.|Ed Wood]], American filmmaker (d. [[1978]])
* [[October 11]] - [[Mal Whitfield]], American athlete
* [[October 12]] - [[Doris Grau]], American actress (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 15]] - [[Mark Lenard]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
* [[October 21]] - [[Celia Cruz]], Cuban singer (d. [[2003]])

===November-December===
* [[November 13]] - [[Motoo Kimura]], Japanese population geneticist (d. [[1994]])
* [[November 19]] - [[William Russell (actor)|William Russell]], British actor
* [[November 20]] - [[Benoit Mandelbrot]], Polish-born mathematician
* [[November 24]] - [[Mel Patton]], American athlete
* [[November 25]] - [[Takaaki Yoshimoto]], Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
* [[December 2]] - [[Alexander M. Haig, Jr.]], American politician
* [[December 25]] - [[Rod Serling]], American television screenwriter (d. [[1975]])
* [[December 25]] - [[Atal Behari Vajpayee]], tenth [[Prime Minister of India]]
* [[December 25]] - [[Moktar Ould Daddah]], first [[President of Mauritania]] (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 28]] - [[Milton Obote]], [[President of Uganda]] (d. [[2005]])
*[[Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah]], King of Malaysia
*King [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]]

==Deaths==
* [[January 21]] - [[Vladimir Lenin]], first leader of the USSR (b. [[1870]])
* [[January 24]] - [[Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 3]] - [[Woodrow Wilson]], 28th [[President of the United States]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1856]])
* [[April 21]] - [[Eleonora Duse]], Italian actress (b. [[1858]])
* [[May 4]] - [[E. Nesbit]], English author (b. [[1858]])
* [[May 15]] - [[Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant]], French diplomat, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1852]])
* [[May 24]] - [[Victor Herbert]], Irish dramatist (b. [[1859]])
* [[June 3]] - [[Franz Kafka]], Austrian author (b. [[1883]])
* [[June 10]] - [[George Mallory]], English mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 11]] - [[Théodore Dubois]], French composer and teacher (b. [[1837]])
* [[July 23]] - [[Frank Frost Abbott]], American classical scholar (b. [[1860]])
* [[July 27]] - [[Ferruccio Busoni]], Italian pianist and composer (b. [[1866]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Joseph Conrad]], Polish-born author (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 17]] - [[Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn|Pavel Urysohn]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1898]])
* [[September 15]] - [[Frank Chance]], baseball player and manager (b. [[1877]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Anatole France]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1844]])
* [[November 4]] - [[Gabriel Fauré]], French composer (b. [[1845]])
* [[November 29]] - [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian composer (b. [[1858]])
* [[December 7]] - [[Gene Stratton Porter]], American author (b. [[1863]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Carl Spitteler]], Swiss writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1845]])
* [[December 31]] - [[Samuel William Knaggs|Sir Samuel William Knaggs]], British civil servant (b. [[1856]])

==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics]] - [[Manne Siegbahn]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry]] - Bryan Hymer
* [[Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Willem Einthoven]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Wladyslaw Reymont|Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - Fermin Romo
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PoC at 09:48, 17 January 2006