November 1924 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1924 Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals.
• 02 Nov 1924 Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle
• 04 Nov 1924 British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns
• 06 Nov 1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of England.
• 08 Nov 1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
• 09 Nov 1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman Governor
• 11 Nov 1924 Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St, New York City
• 12 Nov 1924 Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
• 15 Nov 1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
• 16 Nov 1924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major-league football record).
• 19 Nov 1924 In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince (quotThe Father of the Westernquot) dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
• 21 Nov 1924 British Premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR
• 22 Nov 1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan.
• 27 Nov 1924 57,000 watch a high school football game in Las Angeles, California, USA.
• 28 Nov 1924 Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves 2nd Chamber
• 30 Nov 1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio

Famous Birthday

• Benoît Mandelbrot

  Polish-born, French and American mathematician, noted for developing a "theory of roughness" and "self-similarity" in nature and the field...

• Geraldine Page

  American actress noted for her theater roles in Tennessee Williams' plays.

• Colette Renard

  French actress and singer, closely associated with the titular character from the musical Irma La Douce, a role she played for over a...

• André Falcon

  Lyon 2éme Actor.

• Robert Frank

  Swiss-American photographer and film director, important figure in American photography and film.

• Robert Frank

  Swiss-American photographer and film director, important figure in American photography and film.

• Etienne Trocmé
• Raymond Famechon

  French boxer in a family of three brothers who were all pro boxers.

• Rolf Schimpf
• Jacques Ertaud

  French film maker, one of the most famous and prolific TV directors.

• Roger Bourgeon

  Meudon Journalist.

• Dick Cathcart
• Joe Flynn

  American actor, comedian and vaudevillian who made the transition into movie and TV.

• Alexander Stuart

  Scottish jurist, the Queen's Counsel 1963 and later, a High Court Judge.

• Artur Semedo

  Portuguese director and actor on stage, in film and on television.

• Allan Sherman

  American TV writer for "Cavalcade of Stars" and "Broadway Open House.

• Gilbert Gantier
• Mel Patton

  American runner, Olympic track and field gold medal champion.

• Maurice Roche

  French composer, writer, journalist and illustrator.

• Leonard Nathan

  American poet, critic, and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley where he retired in 1991.

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Famous Deaths

• Thomas Ince

  American actor director and producer (d. 1924).

• Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Edward Everett Rice

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Herman Heijermans Jr

  Author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing).

• Michele Merlo

  American mafia figure (Born 1880).

• Henry Cabot Lodge

  American Senator (Born 1850).

• Gabriel Faure

  French composer, organist and teacher who helped free French music from a German influence.

• Florence Harding

  American First Lady, the wife of U.S.

• Giacomo Puccini

  Italian opera composer of bold and dramatic harmonies, creator of the famous "Madame Butterfly" which he composed in 1904.

• Bill Tilghman

  American gunslinger and peace officer (Born 1854).

• Lee Stack

  British sirdar in Egypt / Governor-General of Sudan, murdered.

• Richard Conner

  American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (Born 1843).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - Maytime
2. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Somebody Loves Me
3. Al Jolson - Follow the Swallow
4. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - It Had to Be You
5. Fiddlin' John Carson - John Henry Blues