The year in history
1924
Someone born in 1924 turns 102 in 2026
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1920s decade.
What happened in 1924
Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union.
İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government).
The Greek republic referendum favors formation of the Second Hellenic Republic.
Harry Grindell Matthews attempts to demonstrate his "death ray" to the War Office in the United Kingdom.
British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M. They are never seen alive again.
The Dawes Plan is signed in Paris, temporarily resolving German reparations dispute.
October – The skull of the Taung Child is discovered in South Africa.
The first Surrealist Manifesto is published, in which André Breton defines the movement as "pure psychic automatism".
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
The Mongolian People's Republic is proclaimed.
Babbs Switch fire: A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma, United States, kills 36 people, mostly small children.
Famous people born in 1924
Jacques Le Goff
French historian and author (d. 2014)
January 1 →
Sergei Parajanov
Georgian-Armenian film director (d. 1990)
January 9 →
Frank Lautenberg
American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
January 23 →
Wu Chengzhang
Chinese basketball player.
February 8 →
Silvano Piovanelli
Italian prelate and cardinal (d. 2016)
February 21 →
Lilian Velez
Filipino actress (d. 1948)
March 3 →
Freddie Bartholomew
English-American actor (d. 1992)
March 28 →
Nina Foch
Dutch-born American actress (d. 2008)
April 20 →
Isadore Singer
American mathematician (d. 2021)
May 3 →
Jaime Lusinchi
Venezuelan politician, 42nd President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
May 27 →
Hédi Fried
Swedish author and psychologist (d. 2022)
June 15 →
Kalevi Keihänen
Finnish entrepreneur (d. 1995)
June 28 →
Dorothy Stanley
American educator (d. 1990)
July 14 →
Lloyd Bochner
Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
July 29 →
Erich Schriever
Swiss Olympic rower (d. 2020)
August 6 →
Ralf Bendix
German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter (d. 2014)
August 16 →
Dinah Washington
African-American singer, pianist (d. 1963)
August 29 →
Rudolf Vrba
Slovak-Jewish Holocaust survivor, escapee from Auschwitz (d. 2006)
September 11 →
Rosamunde Pilcher
English novelist (d. 2019)
September 22 →
Ramón Castro Ruz
Cuban revolutionary (d. 2016)
October 14 →
Dmitry Yazov
Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2020)
November 8 →
Geraldine Page
American actress (d. 1987)
November 22 →
Jakub Nowakowski
Polish zoologist, participant of the Warsaw Uprising
December 4 →
Michel Tournier
French writer (d. 2016)
December 19 →