1924 (original) (raw)
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 - 1924 - 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
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 12 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
- 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 Atat�rk.
- 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"
Year in topic
- 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 literature
- 1924 in music
- 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 11 - Slim Harpo, musician
- January 12 - Olivier Gendebien, race car driver († 1998)
- January 16 - Katy Jurado, actress († 2002)
- January 21 - Telly Savalas, actor († 1994)
- January 27 - Sabu, actor († 1963)
- January 29 - Luigi Nono, composer († 1990)
- January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, writer
- February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer († 2000)
- February 11 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
- February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S Truman
- February 19 - Lee Marvin, actor († 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 († 1990)
- March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor († 1992)
- March 30 - Alan Davidson, author († 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 († 1968)
- May 17 - Hannes Messemer, actor († 1991)
- May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
- May 22 - Charles Aznavour, singer, actor, composer
- June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, radical clergyman
- June 20 - Audie Murphy, WW II hero, actor, († 1971
- July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, actress: North by Northwest, On the Waterfront
- September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, Novellist
- November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician
- December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr, US politician
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
- June 11 - Th�odore Dubois, composer and teacher
- July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer
- November 29 - Giacomo Puccini - Italian grand opera composer
Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
- Chemistry - not awarded
- Medicine - Willem Einthoven
- Literature - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
- Peace - Not awarded.