December 1924 calendar

Events

• 02 Dec 1924 British-German trade agreement signed.
• 05 Dec 1924 Hamilton Tigers' Red Green scores five goals to beat Toronto Maple Leafs 10-5.
• 07 Dec 1924 German election (Social Democrats win, National Socialists and Communists lose).
• 09 Dec 1924 Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed.
• 10 Dec 1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel Prize for medicine.
• 13 Dec 1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
• 14 Dec 1924 Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou, China.
• 17 Dec 1924 First US diesel electric locomotive enters service, in Bronx, New York.
• 19 Dec 1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
• 20 Dec 1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
• 22 Dec 1924 Alvin Hall becomes director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
• 24 Dec 1924 1st radio transmission of NCRV in the Netherlands
• 30 Dec 1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
• 31 Dec 1924 Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies

Famous Birthday

• Michel Tournier

  French writer, Tournier is a prolific writer and he is considered as one of the most prominent French writers of the last third of the 20th...

• Rod Serling

  American television and radio script writer.

• Mario Soares

  Portuguese politician, the leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party and Prime Minister/President of Portugal 1986-1996.

• Alberto Lupo

  Italian theater and TV actor.

• Wally Cox

  American character actor and comedian, remembered mostly as the TV actor, Mr.

• Alexander Haig

  American Soldier & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of...

• Ed Koch

  American lawyer judge and politician 105th Mayor of New York City (d. 2013).

• Glenn Davis (American football)
• Oswaldo Sargentelli
• Susanna Foster

  American singer and actress, promoted as a juvenile player in 1939 by MGM in "The Great Victor Herbert," followed by a dozen more singing...

• Clifford Vargas

  American circus director, the creator of "Circus Vargas," a big top traveling circus.

• Lucio Colletti
• Lynne Carter
• Pierre Kalck
• Jack Davis (cartoonist)
• Doc Blanchard

  American pro athelete, a football player.

• Louis J Hauge Jr
• Jonathan Frid

  Actor (Barnabas Collins-Dark Shadows).

• Tamara Lees
• Raj Kapoor

  Indian filmactor, producer and director of Hindi cinema.

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Famous Deaths

• Kazimieras Buga

  Lithuanian philologist (Born 1879).

• Franz X Scharwenka

  German pianist/composer ("Mataswintha"), dies at age 74.

• Leon Bakst

  Russian artist (Born 1866).

• William Archer

  Scottish critic / playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68.

• Bernard Zweers

  Dutch composer and writer of symphonies and masses, a contributor of church choral music who is most noted for the symphony "My Fatherland.

• Samuel Gompers

  organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at age 74.

• Carl Spitteler

  Swiss poet and author Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924).

• Gene Stratton-Porter

  American author, screenwriter and naturalist (Born 1863).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Isham Jones & His Orchestra - Some Other Day, Some Other Girl
2. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Song of Songs
3. Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra - I Want to Be Happy
4. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Adoring You
5. Ray Miller & His Orchestra - Somebody Loves Me