1924

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"

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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
- "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 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.

1924

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