May 1924 calendar

Events

• 02 May 1924 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR.
• 03 May 1924 Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska
• 04 May 1924 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
• 05 May 1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
• 07 May 1924 Peruvian Torre forms 004A, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana.
• 08 May 1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against third wage cut.
• 10 May 1924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI.
• 11 May 1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost
• 12 May 1924 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick Country Club - Indiana
• 17 May 1924 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2.
• 21 May 1924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
• 22 May 1924 In Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
• 24 May 1924 The Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.
• 26 May 1924 US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration Law (restricting immigration).
• 29 May 1924 AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
• 30 May 1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
• 31 May 1924 The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an ''integral part of the Republic of China'', whose ''sovereignty'' therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.

Famous Birthday

• Charles Aznavour

  French singing rage for many years, retaining a loyal following.

• Charles Libman

  French defense attorney for Jean-Marc Deperrois.

• Samson François
• Gabriel Bacquier

  French baritone opera singer who debuted at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, 1953.

• Ursula Thiess

  German actress, onscreen from 1953 in leading roles of mainly German films.

• Louise Huber

  German-Swiss astrologer and co-founder, along with her husband, of the Swiss School of Astrology in Zurich.

• Lucien Neuwirth

  French Gaullist politician, author of the law about oral contraceptive in 1967.

• André du Bouchet
• Jack Coleman (basketball)
• Jean Balladur

  French architect, known for the concrete orgies of the beach resort La Grande Motte (1960) near Grau-du-Roi on the Mediteranean coast.

• Tony Hancock

  Actor / writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43.

• Tony Hancock

  Actor / writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43.

• Jean Girault

  French film director and screenwriter.

• Serge Creuz

  Dutch artist, painter, set decorator and theatrical writer whose popular posters are much in demand.

• Ida Presti
• Theodore Bikel

  Austrian-American actor and singer on stage, film and TV.

• Patricia Roberts Harris

  American politician (Representative-Democrat) dies at age 60.

• Nathalie Nattier
• Terry Southern

  American screenwriter (Born 1924).

• Terry Southern

  American screenwriter (Born 1924).

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Famous Deaths

• August Cuppens

  Flemish Author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62.

• Carel S Adama van Scheltema

  Poet / writer (socialism), dies at 47.

• Charles Henri Marechal

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Bobby Franks

  Killed by Leopold and Loeb, at 14.

• Johann Heinrich Beck

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Theodore Morse

  Composer, dies at 51.

• Lev N Lunts

  Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23.

• Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant

  French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1852).

• Pierre-Paul Cambon

  French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies.

• Victor Herbert

  Irish composer, conductor, violinist and cellist who was best known for his operettas.

• Lyubov Popova

  Russian painter and academic (d. 1924).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Jan Garber & His Orchestra - You're in Kentucky Sure as You're Born
2. Al Jolson - California, Here I Come!
3. Al Jolson - One I Love Belongs to Someone Else
4. Al Jolson - I'm Goin' South
5. Al Jolson - Steppin' Out