February 1924 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1924 Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
• 02 Feb 1924 International Ski Federation (FIS) founded.
• 04 Feb 1924 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
• 05 Feb 1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the ''BBC pips''.
• 07 Feb 1924 Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
• 08 Feb 1924 US mobster Gee John is first executed in gas chamber, in Nevada.
• 09 Feb 1924 Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR.
• 10 Feb 1924 Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators).
• 12 Feb 1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
• 14 Feb 1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
• 16 Feb 1924 February 26 ampndash Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.
• 17 Feb 1924 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds).
• 18 Feb 1924 US Minister of Marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal.
• 22 Feb 1924 1st presidential radio address
• 24 Feb 1924 Johnny Weissmuller swims 100-metre record (57.4 seconds).
• 25 Feb 1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3).
• 26 Feb 1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
• 28 Feb 1924 US begins intervention in Honduras.

Famous Birthday

• Claude Sautet

  French director and television producer with a name well-known also as a screenwriter.

• Gloria Vanderbilt

  American entrepreneur and heiress, the daughter of Gloria Morgan and her husband Reginald Vanderbilt: her dad died when she was an infant.

• Robert Mugabe

  Prime Minister of Zimbabwe 1980-1987; President of Zimbabwe 1987-present.

• Robert Mugabe

  Prime Minister of Zimbabwe 1980-1987; President of Zimbabwe 1987-present.

• Lee Marvin

  American film and television actor.

• Robert Amadou

  French editor, writer of biographies, non-fiction; and parapsychology including "Great Mediums," 1957 and "Telepathy," 1958.

• Juan Ponce Enrile
• François Perrot
• Paul Jallat
• Elizabeth Bradley

  Latvian-Canadian psychic, world known for her accuracy.

• Silvano Piovanelli

  Italian ecclesiastic, the Archbishop of Florence 1983, ordained a Cardinal in 1985.

• Paul Pacini
• Laurent Dauthuille

  French boxer, nicknamed the Tarzan of Buzenval.

• Shelagh Kendal

  British-Canadian pro astrologer, a journalist and data collector and co-author of "Charting Canada.

• David Bronstein

  Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (Born 1924).

• Julia Wagner

  American publisher and editor who was the Editor-in-Chief of "Dell Horoscope" 1973-1987.

• Khamtay Siphandon
• Margaret Truman

  American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman (1924).

• Ferdinando Terruzzi

  France sport Champion.

• Ruben F Mettler
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Famous Deaths

• Alexis Hollander

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Gee John

  US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada).

• Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Thomas Woodrow Wilson

  28th US President (1913-21), dies.

• Gee Jon

  First man in U.S.

• Edmond Picard

  French/Belgian writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at age 87.

• Oskar Merikanto

  Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1924).

• Lionel Monckton

  English composer for the musical theatre (Born 1861).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Benson Orchestra of Chicago - When Lights Are Low
2. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell - I'm Sitting Pretty in a Pretty Little City
3. Frank Ferera - Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee)
4. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Linger Awhile
5. Ted Weems & His Orchestra - Somebody Stole My Gal