August 1924 calendar

Events

• 02 Aug 1924 Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
• 03 Aug 1924 Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
• 04 Aug 1924 Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
• 05 Aug 1924 Comic strip Little Orphan Annie, by Harold Gray, debuts
• 08 Aug 1924 British-Russian trade agreement signed
• 11 Aug 1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
• 16 Aug 1924 38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory
• 17 Aug 1924 French-German trade agreement signed
• 18 Aug 1924 France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
• 25 Aug 1924 International maritime treaty drawn
• 28 Aug 1924 The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
• 29 Aug 1924 German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
• 31 Aug 1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m

Famous Birthday

• Joseph di Mambro
• James Baldwin

  American writer (Born 1924).

• James Baldwin

  American writer (Born 1924).

• Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
• Jean-François Lyotard

  French post-structuralist philosopher and literary theorist.

• Fess Parker

  American actor and singer (d. 2010).

• Carroll O'Connor

  American actor (d. 2001).

• Arthur Janov

  American author and clinical psychologist who discovered a controversial "primal therapy" which elicits screams from patients as part of a...

• Georges Prêtre

  French musician, orchestral and opera conductor.

• René Bon
• Dinah Washington

  American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s".

• Phyllis Schlafly

  American writer, lawyer, and media celebrity as the nation's best known anti-feminist and the scourge of the ERA.

• Janet Frame

  New Zealand -- Novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry).

• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

  Pakistani general and politician 6th President of Pakistan (d. 1988).

• Buddy Hackett

  American actor and comedian (d. 2003).

• Martha Hyer

  Texas, United States -- Actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly).

• Lee Adams

  American lyricist; formerly a magazine writer and editor.

• Mario Fazio

  Italian journalist and president of the Italia Nostra since January 1987.

• William Marshall
• Marcia Mae Jones

  American actress (d. 2007).

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Famous Deaths

• John Henry Roberts

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Camille Zeckwer

  Composer, dies at 49.

• Julian Aguirre

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn

  Russian mathematician, drowns at 26.

• Jacob P Vis

  Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66.

• Heinrich Berte

  Austrian operetta composer (Born 1856).

• Mariano Alvarez

  Filipino general (Born 1818).

• Todor Aleksandrov

  Bulgarian educator and activist (d. 1924).

• Tom Kendall

  Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1924).

• Joseph Conrad

  Polish-British adventurer and writer who was famous for his romantic and tragic stories about intrigue and life in Malaya, the Congo and...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - Memory Lane
2. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Concert No. 2 in C Minor, Parts 1 & 2
3. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Lazy
4. Lewis James - What'll I Do?
5. Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra - What'll I Do?