October 1924 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1924 Fokker F-7 1st flight
• 02 Oct 1924 The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
• 03 Oct 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
• 04 Oct 1924 New York Giants become first team to appear in four consecutive World Series (World Series #21).
• 05 Oct 1924 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News
• 07 Oct 1924 Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
• 08 Oct 1924 British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists
• 10 Oct 1924 Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
• 12 Oct 1924 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow.
• 13 Oct 1924 Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca
• 15 Oct 1924 President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
• 18 Oct 1924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7 in football; New York Herald Tribune newspaper dubs them the Four Horsemen.
• 19 Oct 1924 Abdul Aziz declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.
• 20 Oct 1924 1st Negro League World Series: Kansas City Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
• 22 Oct 1924 Toastmasters International is founded.
• 24 Oct 1924 Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
• 25 Oct 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip 1st published
• 27 Oct 1924 Uzbek SSR forms
• 28 Oct 1924 French-Russian trade agreement signed
• 29 Oct 1924 Dixie to Broadway, opens at Broadhurst Theater
• 31 Oct 1924 World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).

Famous Birthday

• Jimmy Carter

  American politician, 39th President of the U.S.

• Danielle Mitterrand

  French First Lady, the wife of President François Mitterrand, and president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand.

• Alain Bombard

  French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat.

• Ludmilla Tchérina

  French actress ballerina and choreographer (d. 2004).

• Lee Iacocca

  American self-made man who worked his way up to the presidency of the Ford Motor Co.

• Guy Piérauld
• Roger Thérond
• Alain Carrier

  France Painter.

• Georges Géret

  French film actor who appeared in over 80 films between 1954 and 1992.

• Jean Bretonnière
• Gilles Delamare
• Suryakantham (actress)
• William Rehnquist

  American jurist and the 16th Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, a position he held from 1986 until his death on September 3, 2005.

• James Clavell

  Australian-American writer, the best-selling author of "Tai-Pan" and "Noble House," richly detailed long historical adventure epics set in...

• Jacques Legras

  French actor, who died on 15 March 2006 in Paris.

• Enrico Baj
• Charles Poswick
• Jean-Michel Charlier

  Belgian script writer best known as a writer of realistic European comics.

• Jane Cooper

  American poet.

• Hubert Curien

  French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN Council (1994–1996), the first chairman of the...

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Famous Deaths

• Joseph Vezina

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Jacques Oppenheim

  Lawyer, dies at 75.

• Monroe A Althouse

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Clemens Baeumker

  German Historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71.

• Valery Bryusov

  Russian writer and critic (Born 1873).

• Anatole France

  French writer, a novelist and critic who won the Nobel Prize in 1921.

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