Major Events
- Jan 27 Vladimir Lenin is placed in a Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
- May 1 German automobile manufacturers Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie begin their first joint venture (later merge into Mercedes-Benz)
- Aug 26 The Catastrophe of Smyrna: known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor. (August 13 OS)
- Sep 10 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "the crime of the century"
- Oct 13 Mecca falls without struggle to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud
- Oct 28 Miner M.de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child" in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus.
- Dec 30 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society
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1924 in Music
- Feb 12 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at influential concert "Experiment in Modern Music" held by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra at the Aeolian Hall, NYC [1]
- Jun 9 "Jelly-Roll Blues" is recorded by American jazz pioneer pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton
1924 in Sport
- Jan 25 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France
Did You Know?
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
William H. Webster
George H. W. Bush
Elizabeth Short
James Baldwin
Jimmy Carter
Ed Koch
Lee Marvin
Marlon Brando
Henry Mancini
Tony Hancock
Lauren Bacall
Geraldine Page
Sheldon Harnick
Gil Hodges
George Mikan
Jack Buck
Tom Landry
Larry Doby
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Louis Sullivan
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Famous Weddings in 1924
- Jan 11 German-Swiss poet and novelist Hermann Hesse (36) weds Swiss soprano and painter Ruth Wenger (26); divorce in 1927
- Feb 4 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (22) weds jazz pianist Lillian "Lil" Hardin (26) - 2nd try for each; separate in 1931 and divorce in 1938
- Feb 26 American astronomer Edwin Hubble (34) weds Grace Burke (34) in Pasadena, California, until his death in 1953
Famous Divorces in 1924
- Oct 16 American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell divorces 1st husband Berrien "Red" Upshaw
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Calvin Coolidge
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