Today in History for Year 1924 (Part 2)

Months in Year 1924: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 101 - 200 of 308

Apr 19th - "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago
Apr 19th - 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2
Apr 22nd - Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
Apr 23rd - British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley
Apr 27th - Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
Apr 28th - 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
May 1st - Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece
May 2nd - Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
May 3rd - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber.
May 4th - 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
May 4th - German Republic election fascists & communists win
May 5th - Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
May 7th - Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
May 8th - Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231," premieres
May 8th - Memel territories given to Lithuania
May 8th - Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
May 10th - J Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
May 11th - Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election
May 11th - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
First Director of the FBI J Edgar Hoover May 11th - Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies.
May 12th - 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2
May 12th - 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind
May 16th - 108°F (42°C) in Blitzen Oregon
May 17th - 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
May 21st - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
May 22nd - In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
May 26th - German government of Marx resigns
May 26th - Pres Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration
May 29th - AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
May 30th - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
Jun 2nd - Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians
Jun 3rd - Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
Jun 6th - 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
Jun 7th - 56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8
Mountain Climber George Mallory Jun 7th - George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
Jun 9th - "Jelly-Roll Blues," is recorded by blues great, Jelly Roll Morton
Jun 10th - 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
Jun 11th - Bene Brak Palestine founded
Jun 11th - Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC
Jun 13th - Bene Berak Palestine founded
Jun 13th - Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
Jun 13th - Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
Jun 14th - Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa
Jun 14th - WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
Jun 15th - 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal
Jun 15th - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile
Jun 15th - J Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
Jun 15th - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
Jun 16th - South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
30th US President Calvin Coolidge Jun 18th - Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque
Jun 19th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6)
Jun 21st - NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
Jun 23rd - 8 month Twenste textile strike ends
Jun 24th - 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake
Jun 26th - After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
Jun 26th - Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway
Jun 28th - Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's
Jun 28th - Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93
Jun 30th - England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's
Jul 1st - Light Brigade forms
Jul 1st - Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, NYC-SF
Jul 5th - Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil
Jul 6th - 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
Jul 7th - Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"
Jul 10th - Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
Jul 10th - Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
Jul 11th - Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
Jul 13th - Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
Jul 16th - Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
Jul 16th - NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
Jul 17th - St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
Jul 18th - KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi
Jul 20th - Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris
Jul 20th - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
Jul 27th - 8th Olympic games closes in Paris
Jul 29th - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
Aug 2nd - Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
Aug 3rd - Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
Aug 5th - Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
Aug 8th - British-Russian trade agreement signed
Aug 11th - 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
Aug 11th - US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
Aug 16th - 38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63)
Aug 16th - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
Aug 16th - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
Aug 17th - French-German trade agreement signed
Aug 18th - France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
Aug 18th - France begins withdrawing troops from the Ruhr
Aug 23rd - Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
Aug 25th - International maritime treaty drawn
Aug 25th - Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
Aug 26th - (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.
Aug 28th - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
Aug 29th - German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
Aug 31st - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
Sep 1st - Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
Sep 2nd - 44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
Sep 2nd - Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
Sep 3rd - Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
Sep 3rd - L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in NYC

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 617

Feb 25th - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner
Feb 26th - Mark Bucci, NYC, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award)
Feb 26th - Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89)
Feb 27th - M M Shearer, former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
Feb 27th - Norman Marshall, cricketer (brother of Roy, one Test for WI 1955)
Feb 28th - Robert A Roe, (Rep-D-NJ, 1969- )
Feb 29th - David Beattie, British governor-general of NZ
Feb 29th - Otto Hutter, physiologist
Feb 29th - Al Rosen, American baseball player
Mar 1st - Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
Mar 2nd - Albert TLCA Vogel, Dutch elocutionist
Mar 3rd - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
Mar 3rd - Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (d. 1948)
Mar 6th - Sarah Caldwell, Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
Mar 6th - William H Webster, US, judge/head FBI/CIA
Mar 7th - Eduardo Paolozzi, British sculptor (Hydra)
Mar 7th - Kobo Abe, Tokyo Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
Mar 8th - Sean McClory, Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur)
Mar 8th - Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer
Mar 9th - Konstantin Iliev, composer
Mar 15th - Juij Bondarew, writer
Mar 15th - Lockrem Johnson, composer
Mar 15th - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
Mar 17th - Stephen Dodgson, composer
Mar 18th - Madhussudan Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49)
Mar 19th - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
Mar 20th - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (d. 1998)
Mar 20th - Hermann Guggiari, Paraguay, engineer and sculptor (Rejas, NNUU)(d.2012)
Mar 21st - Karl Heinz Fussl, composer
Mar 22nd - Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
Mar 22nd - Bill Wendell, NYC, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman)
Mar 22nd - Paul Fussell, Pasadena, California, historian (The Great War and Modern Memory), (d. 2012)
Mar 23rd - Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant
Mar 23rd - Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)
Mar 24th - Lois Andrews, actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk)
Mar 24th - Lorraine Gourley, LA CA
Mar 24th - Norman Fell, Phila, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate)
Mar 25th - Julia A Perry, US composer (Cask of Amontillado)
Mar 25th - Julia Perry, Lexington Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant)
Mar 25th - Machiko Kyo, Osaka Japan, actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu)
Mar 27th - Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
Mar 27th - Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
Mar 28th - Freddie Bartholomew, England, actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield)
Mar 28th - Gerhart Fritsch, writer
Mar 28th - Peter Baer, artost/printmaker
Mar 29th - Jules de Corte, blind Dutch ballad singer
Mar 30th - Milko Kelemen, composer
Mar 31st - Harry Cubitt, 4th Lord Ashcombe ("Mad Harry"), English landowner
Mar 31st - Leo Buscaglia, LA California, "Dr Hug", psycholigist (Love)
Apr 1st - Gunther Becker, composer
Apr 1st - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
Apr 1st - Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (d. 2003)
Apr 2nd - Denis Rooke, CEO (British Gas)
Apr 3rd - Canon A D Caesar, Sub Dean (HM Chapels Royal)
Apr 3rd - Doris Day, Cincinnati Oh, "girl next door" actress (Pillow Talk)
Actor Marlon Brando (Apr 3rd) Apr 3rd - Marlon Brando, Omaha Neb, actor (Superman, Godfather)
Apr 3rd - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director
Apr 4th - Christopher Prater, screen printer
Apr 4th - Gil Hodges, baseball player/manager (Bkln Dodgers, NY Mets)
Apr 4th - Peter Vaughan, actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling)
Apr 5th - Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist/sculptor
Apr 7th - Ikuma Dan, composer
Apr 7th - Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
Apr 7th - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
Apr 8th - Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter
Apr 8th - Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English soldier and historian (d. 2006)
Apr 9th - Harald Heilmann, composer
Apr 10th - Kenneth Noland, American painter
Apr 12th - Julius Moormann, student/resistance fighter (WW II)
Apr 12th - Sergiu Natra, composer
Apr 12th - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (d. 2003)
Apr 13th - Stanley Donen, SC, film director/producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees)
Apr 13th - Jack Chick, American evangelist
Apr 14th - Shorty Rogers, [Milton M Rajonsky], composer
Apr 15th - John Grigg, British historian
Apr 15th - Neville Marriner, Lincoln England, conductor (Minn Orch 1978)
Apr 16th - Geoffrey Johnson Smith, actor (Norman Loves Rose, Drinking Games)
Apr 16th - Henry Mancini, Cleveland, composer/conductor (Pink Panther)
Apr 16th - John Harvey-Jones, CEO (ICI)
Apr 17th - Patrick Sergeant, founder (Euromoney Publications)
Apr 17th - Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist (NAACP)
Apr 18th - Buxton Daeblite Orr, composer
Apr 18th - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine)
Apr 18th - Henry J Hyde, (Rep-R-IL)
Apr 18th - Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP (Lab)/British defense secretary
Apr 18th - Raf de Linde, [Raphael van Hecke], author (Vaarwel on Gertrude)
Apr 20th - Gerhard Samuel, composer
Apr 20th - Nina Foch, Leiden Netherlands, actress (American in Paris)
Apr 20th - Paul M Van Buren, US theologist (Theological Explorations)
Apr 21st - Daniel Melnick, NYC, producer, Get Smart)
Apr 21st - Ira Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer, Louvin Brothers)
Apr 23rd - Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
Apr 23rd - Colin Welch, columnist/critic
Apr 23rd - James Colin Ross Welch, journalist
Apr 23rd - Malcolm Anson, CEO (Wessex Water Authority)
Apr 23rd - Chuck Harmon, American baseball player
Apr 24th - Marilyn Erskine, Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show)
Apr 24th - Yehoshua Lakner, composer
Apr 24th - Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
Apr 24th - Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 101 - 105 of 105

Dec 9th - Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel), dies at 70
Dec 13th - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
Dec 27th - William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
Dec 28th - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
Dec 29th - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)