Today in History for November 1924

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 29 of 29

1st - 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1st - Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
2nd - Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle
4th - British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns
4th - California legalizes pro boxing (illegal since 1914)
4th - Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming)
4th - US president Calvin Coolidge re-elected
6th - Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK
8th - Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
8th - Fortune Theatre opens in London
9th - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
10th - Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
11th - Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC
11th - Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF)
12th - Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
15th - Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
16th - Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record)
21st - British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR
22nd - England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
30th US President Calvin Coolidge 24th - 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java)
26th - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
27th - 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)
27th - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
28th - Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves 2nd Chamber
29th - 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
29th - NHL's Montreal Forum opens
30th - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
30th - Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied
30th - French/Belgium troops completely withdrawn from the Rurh

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 43 of 43

1st - Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist
1st - Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey
2nd - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
2nd - Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
4th - Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
5th - Ivan Rezak, composer
6th - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
7th - Wolf Mankowitz, British(?) playwright
8th - Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)
9th - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
10th - Russell Johnson, actor, (professor-Gilligan's Island)
11th - Piet J A van der Sanden, Dutch MP (CDA)
11th - Rusi Modi, cricketer (strong Indian batsman in post-War years)
12th - Sam Jones, jazz bassist (d. 1981)
13th - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)
14th - Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist
14th - Billy Jim Layton, composer
14th - Kenneth J Gray, (Rep-D-IL, 1955-75, 85- )
14th - Leonid B Kogan, Dnepropetrovsk Russia, violinist (Lenin Prize-1952)
14th - Phyllis Avery, NYC, actress (Alice-George Gobel Show, Ruth-Mr Novak)
16th - Joep J P de Boer, Dutch MP (CDA)
16th - Mel Patton, American athlete
17th - Lucas J "Luc" Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Hague Comedy)
18th - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000)
19th - William Russell, British actor
20th - Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law)
Writer J. R. R. Tolkien (21st) 21st - Christopher Tolkien, British author
22nd - Axel Borup-Jorgensen, composer
22nd - Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
23rd - Colin Turnbull, anthropologist
23rd - Paul Richards, CA, actor (Kiss Daddy Goodnight)
23rd - Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
24th - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
25th - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist
25th - Tui St George Tucker, composer
25th - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
26th - George Segal, New York, American painter and sculptor of lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
26th - Jasu Patel, cricketer (Indian off-spinner, 9-69 v Aust 1959)
27th - Theresa R van der Pant, sculptor
28th - Kees [Gerrit C] Otten, Dutch flutist
30th - Allan Sherman, parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah)
30th - Klaus Huber, composer
Shirley Chisholm (30th) 30th - Shirley Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY) 1st black congresswoman/pres candidate

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

26th - Comic actor Charlie Chaplin (35) weds "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 11 of 11

4th - Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
4th - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
8th - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64
9th - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
16th - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer, dies at 78
16th - Edward Everett Rice, composer, dies at 75
19th - Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
19th - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
21st - Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
22nd - Herman Heijermans Jr, author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies
29th - Giacomo Puccini, Ital composer (Mme Butterfly), dies in Brussels at 65