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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1924

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Birthdays

January 1 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
January 3 - André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (d. 1997)
January 3 - Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
January 3 - Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur
January 4 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (d. 1993)
January 5 - Dr Gilbert Bogle, Australian scientist who died in the Bogle-Chandler case (1963)
January 6 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
January 7 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
January 8 - Benjamin Lees, American composer
January 8 - Ron Moody, English actor
January 9 - Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
January 10 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer
January 10 - Max Roach, American percussionist
January 11 - Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
January 11 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
January 11 - Don Cherry, American singer and golfer
January 11 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist
January 12 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
January 13 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
January 13 - Roland Petit, French choreographer
January 14 - Guy Williams, American actor (d. 2002)
January 16 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
January 19 - Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
January 19 - Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
January 20 - Slim Whitman, American singer
January 21 - Benny Hill, English actor
January 22 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
January 23 - Bal Thackeray, founder and president of Indian political party Shiv Sena.
January 25 - Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
January 25 - Speedy West, Country Hall of Fame steel guitar player (d. 2003)
January 26 - Rauf Denktaþ, Cypriot politician
January 26 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
January 26 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
January 27 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
January 27 - Rauf Denktaş, Turkish political figure
January 29 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
January 29 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
January 29 - Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002)
January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
February 1 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (d. 1997)
February 1 - Ben Weider, Quebec businessman and author
February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born American producer and musician
February 3 - E. P. Thompson, English socialist historian
February 3 - Martial Asselin, French Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Quebec
February 6 - Billy Wright, English former footballer (d. 1994)
February 10 - Bud Poile, Canadian hockey player and executive (d. 2005)
February 13 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (d. 2006)
February 17 - Margaret Truman, American novelist (d. 2008)
February 18 - Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999)
February 18 - Louis Laberge, Quebec labour union leader (d. 2002)
February 19 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)
February 19 - Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
February 19 - Bruce Norris, American ice hockey executive (d. 1986)
February 20 - Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer
February 21 - Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
February 23 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African born physicist
February 23 - Claude Sautet, French film director (d. 2000)
February 29 - Al Rosen, American baseball player
February 29 - David Beattie, New Zealand Governor-General (d. 2001)
February 29 - Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador
March 1 - Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)
March 3 - Tomiichi Murayama, former Prime Minister of Japan
March 3 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
March 3 - Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (d. 1948)
March 4 - Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
March 15 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
March 19 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
March 20 - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (d. 1998)
March 22 - Allen Neuharth, American businessman
March 22 - Bill Wendell, American television announcer (d. 1999)
March 23 - Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)
March 24 - Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
March 27 - Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
March 31 - Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998)
March 31 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (d. 2002)
April 1 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
April 1 - Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (d. 2003)
April 3 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
April 3 - Doris Day, American actress
April 4 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
April 8 - Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter
April 8 - Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English soldier and historian (d. 2006)
April 10 - Kenneth Noland, American painter
April 12 - Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
April 12 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (d. 2003)
April 13 - Jack Chick, American evangelist
April 13 - Stanley Donen, American film director
April 14 - Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (d. 1994)
April 15 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor
April 16 - John Harvey-Jones, Industrialist (d. 2008)
April 16 - Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
April 16 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976)
April 18 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (d. 2005)
April 18 - Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
April 20 - Leslie Phillips, English actor
April 23 - Chuck Harmon, American baseball player
April 23 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
April 24 - Sir Clement Freud, British writer
April 24 - Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
April 28 - Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor
April 28 - Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
April 29 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006)
April 29 - Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballet dancer and actress
May 1 - Art Fleming, American game show host (d. 1995)
May 1 - Karel Kachyňa, Czech film director (d. 2004)
May 1 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
May 2 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian-born actor and singer
May 2 - Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004)
May 3 - Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000)
May 3 - Ken Tyrrell, English founder of eponymous F1 racing team (d. 2001)
May 6 - Denny Wright, British guitarist (d. 1992)
May 6 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006)
May 7 - Albert Band, American film director (d. 2002)
May 9 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)
May 11 - Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician
May 11 - Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer
May 12 - Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician
May 12 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (d. 1968)
May 13 - Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid politician
May 13 - Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director
May 15 - Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)
May 18 - Priscilla Pointer, American actress
May 18 - Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster
May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
May 21 - Peggy Cass, American actress (d. 1999)
May 22 - Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer
May 25 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
June 1 - William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
June 2 - June Callwood, Canadian jounalist and activist (d. 2007)
June 3 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
June 3 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
June 3 - Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
June 3 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
June 4 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
June 4 - Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (d. 1999)
June 6 - Jinyong, Chinese novelist
June 8 - Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006)
June 11 - Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
June 12 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
June 13 - Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (d. 2007)
June 15 - Ezer Weizman, Israeli politician (d. 2005)
June 16 - Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999)
June 18 - George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
June 19 - Leo Nomellini, American football player (d. 2000)
June 20 - Chet Atkins, American guitar player and producer (d. 2001)
June 20 - Audie Murphy, American Medal of Honor recipient and actor (d. 1971)
June 20 - Fritz Koenig, German sculptor
June 21 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (d. 2006)
June 21 - Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker
June 21 - Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
June 24 - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2008)
June 24 - Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1991)
June 25 - Sidney Lumet, American film director
June 26 - Costas Axelos, Greek philosopher
June 27 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
June 27 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
June 29 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
June 29 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
July 3 - S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, American actress
July 5 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (d. 2001)
July 5 - János Starker, Hungarian cellist
July 7 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)
July 8 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (d. 2005)
July 10 - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
July 10 - Johnny Bach, American basketball coach
July 11 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
July 11 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
July 11 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
July 13 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer
July 13 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (d. 2003)
July 14 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist
July 16 - Bess Myerson, American beauty queen
July 18 - Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer
July 19 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
July 19 - Pat Hingle, American actor
July 20 - Thomas Berger, American novelist
July 20 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer
July 21 - Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
July 22 - Margaret Whiting, American singer
July 23 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)
July 25 - Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
July 25 - Scotch Taylor, Former South African cricketer (d. 2004)
July 27 - Vincent Canby, American film critic (d. 2000)
July 28 - C.T. Vivian, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
July 29 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
July 29 - Robert Horton, American actor
July 29 - Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
August 1 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist
August 1 - Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
August 1 - Frank Worrell, Former West Indian cricketer
August 2 - James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
August 2 - Joe Harnell, American musician
August 2 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
August 3 - Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003)
August 10 - Martha Hyer, American actress
August 12 - Derek Shackleton, English cricketer (d. 2007)
August 12 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
August 14 - Georges Prêtre, French conductor
August 15 - Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1995)
August 16 - Fess Parker, American actor
August 21 - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
August 21 - Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist (d. 2005)
August 21 - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
August 23 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
August 23 - Robert Solow, American economist
August 26 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
August 27 - David Rowbotham, Australian poet
August 28 - Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
August 28 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
August 28 - Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer
August 29 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
August 29 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
August 30 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
August 31 - Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
September 2 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
September 4 - Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)
September 5 - Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
September 8 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
September 8 - Marie-Claire Kirkland, Quebec politician
September 8 - Grace Metalious, American novelist (d. 1964)
September 9 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
September 9 - Russell M. Nelson, LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer
September 9 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
September 10 - Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
September 10 - Boyd K. Packer, LDS apostle
September 11 - Daniel Akaka, Chinese-American politician
September 11 - Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
September 11 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor
September 13 - Scott Brady, American film actor (d. 1985)
September 13 - Harold Blair, Australian tenor
September 13 - Maurice Jarre, French composer
September 14 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
September 15 - Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005)
September 16 - Lauren Bacall, American actress
September 20 - Gogi Grant, American singer
September 22 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)
September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
September 23 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)
September 24 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
September 24 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
September 24 - Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
September 26 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
September 27 - Bernard Waber, American author
September 27 - Fred Singer, American scientist
September 27 - Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (d. 1966)
September 27 - Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer and exulant publisher
September 28 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
September 29 - Steve Forrest, American actor
September 30 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
October 1 - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
October 1 - William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
October 3 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
October 3 - Harvey Kurtzman, U.S. cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine (d. 1993)
October 5 - Bill Dana, American actor
October 5 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
October 5 - José Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996)
October 8 - Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
October 10 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
October 10 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)
October 10 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
October 11 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
October 12 - Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995)
October 15 - Lee Iacocca, American industrialist
October 15 - Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
October 15 - Marguerite Andersen, German writer
October 15 - Warren Miller, American director
October 18 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
October 21 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer
October 21 - Joyce Randolph, American actress
October 25 - Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
October 27 - Ruby Dee, American actress
October 28 - Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (d. 1996)
November 1 - Jean-Luc Pépin, French Canadian politician (d. 1995)
November 1 - Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey
November 2 - (Father) David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988)
November 2 - Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
November 3 - Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
November 4 - Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
November 6 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler
November 8 - Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974)
November 9 - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
November 10 - Russell Johnson, American actor (Gilligan's Island)
November 12 - Sam Jones, jazz bassist (d. 1981)
November 13 - Linda Christian, Mexican-born actress
November 13 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)
November 14 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982)
November 16 - Mel Patton, American athlete
November 18 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000)
November 19 - William Russell, British actor
November 20 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician
November 21 - Christopher Tolkien, British author
November 22 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
November 23 - Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
November 23 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d. 1994)
November 23 - Anita Linda, Filipino actress
November 24 - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
November 25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet
November 26 - George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
November 28 - Dennis Brutus, South African poet
November 30 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician
November 30 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
November 30 - Elliott Blackstone, American gay and lesbian rights activist (d. 2006)
December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
December 2 - Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)
December 3 - Roberto Mières, Argentine racing driver
December 3 - John Winter, Australian high jumper (d. 2007)
December 3 - Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist
December 4 - John Portman, American architect
December 6 - Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973)
December 7 - John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver (d. 2005)
December 7 - Mário Soares, President of Portugal
December 10 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
December 12 - Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City
December 14 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
December 19 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
December 19 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
December 19 - Gary Morton, second husband of Lucille Ball (d. 1999)
December 19 - Edmund Purdom, English actor
December 20 - Charlie Callas, American comedian
December 20 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster (d. 1980)
December 22 - Frank Corsaro, American stage director
December 24 - Lee Dorsey, American singer (d. 1986)
December 24 - Grigory Kriss, Russian Olympic champion fencer
December 25 - Rod Serling, American television writer (d. 1975)
December 25 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
December 26 - Frank Broyles, American athlete
December 28 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
December 31 - Taylor Mead, American actor

Deaths

January 2 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
January 4 - Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist
January 13 - Georg Hermann Quincke, German phsycist (b. 1834)
January 16 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald
January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
January 24 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
February 3 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
March 22 - William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)
March 27 - Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
March 29 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (b. 1852)
April 21 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
April 24 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
May 15 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat
May 25 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
May 26 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
June 3 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
June 8 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
June 8 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
June 11 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837)
July 23 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
August 3 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
August 17 - Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
August 25 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
September 18 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846)
September 19 - Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
October 9 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
October 12 - Anatole France, French author
November 4 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
November 4 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
November 9 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
November 19 - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
November 21 - Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
November 29 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
December 2 - Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
December 6 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author
December 13 - Samuel Gompers, American labor and political leader
December 28 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
December 29 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer

Events

January 3 - English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
January 21 - Vladimir Lenin dies; a lengthy power struggle emerges between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin begins, culminating to the latter's consolidation of power c. 1928.
January 22 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
January 24 - Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
January 25 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
February 1 - The United Kingdom recognizes USSR.
February 5 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
February 8 - Capital punishment: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
February 12 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
February 14 - The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is founded.
February 17 - In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100-yard freestyle swimming competition with a time of 52-2/5 seconds.
February 22 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
March 3 - The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
March 3 - Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
March 8 - The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
March 9 - Italy annexes Fiume.
March 16 - The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.
April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes the book Mein Kampf.
April 1 - First revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines
April 1 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
April 15 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
April 17 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
April 18 - Simon & Schuster publishes the first Crossword Puzzle book.
May 3 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber.
May 10 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
May 11 - Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies.
May 21 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
May 29 - AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
May 31 - 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.
June 2 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
June 10 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
June 16 - The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
June 26 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
July 20 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
July 24 - The World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris.
August 4 - Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
August 26 - (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.
August 28 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
September 9 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
September 17 - The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
October 2 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
October 22 - Toastmasters International is founded.
October 25 - The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
October 27 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
October 31 - 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).
November 4 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first female governor in the United States.
November 10 - Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
November 11 - Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.
November 27 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
December 19 - The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
December 24 - Albania becomes a republic.
December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.

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