Notable Historical Events - 1924
1924 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Grossdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft/Volkische Block replaces NSDAP |
Jan 6 |
Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo |
Jan 12 |
History of Science Society organized at Boston |
Jan 13 |
Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections |
Jan 14 |
Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy |
Jan 15 |
3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
Jan 22 |
Government of Stanley Baldwin resigns in Great Britain |
Jan 22 |
Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens |
Jan 22 |
KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions |
Jan 23 |
Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain |
Jan 24 |
Benito Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union |
Jan 24 |
Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad; it was changed back in 1991 |
Jan 25 |
1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France |
Jan 26 |
Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal |
Jan 27 |
Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier |
Jan 27 |
Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow |
Jan 27 |
The Natal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Association jointly organise a mass meeting in Durban, South Africa in opposition to the Class Areas Bill |
Jan 29 |
Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland |
Jan 30 |
Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW |
Feb 1 |
Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens |
Feb 1 |
Ramsay MacDonald's incoming Labour government formally recognizes the Soviet Union |
Feb 1 |
Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg |
Feb 2 |
International Ski Federation (FIS) forms |
Feb 3 |
Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) |
Feb 4 |
1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France |
Feb 4 |
George Kelly's "Show-Off," premieres in NYC |
Feb 5 |
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". |
Feb 7 |
Benito Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR |
Feb 8 |
1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic |
Feb 9 |
Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR |
Feb 10 |
Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Wash Senators) |
Feb 12 |
George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Aeolian Hall, NYC |
Feb 12 |
George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback," premieres in NYC |
Feb 14 |
IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson |
Feb 15 |
A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill |
Feb 17 |
Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds) |
Feb 18 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
Feb 18 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
Feb 18 |
US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal |
Feb 24 |
Greek parliament proclaims republic |
Feb 24 |
Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100m record (57 2/5 secs) |
Feb 24 |
Mahatma Gandhi released from jail |
Feb 25 |
Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3) |
Feb 26 |
Trial against Hitler in Munich begins |
Feb 27 |
Belgium's Theunis government falls |
Feb 28 |
US begins intervention in Honduras |
Mar 1 |
Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted |
Mar 3 |
German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed |
Mar 3 |
Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock," premieres in Dublin |
Mar 4 |
"Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny |
Mar 5 |
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM |
Mar 5 |
Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games |
Mar 5 |
King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief |
Mar 6 |
British Labour government cuts military budget |
Mar 8 |
Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah |
Mar 9 |
South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) |
Mar 11 |
3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins |
Mar 11 |
Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London |
Mar 11 |
NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games |
Mar 13 |
German Republic day |
Mar 16 |
The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime. |
Mar 17 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in NYC |
Mar 17 |
Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition |
Mar 17 |
Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats |
Mar 20 |
Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn |
Mar 20 |
Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Vanc Millionaires (PCHA) in 2 |
Mar 21 |
1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC) |
Mar 21 |
Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US |
Mar 24 |
Greece becomes a republic |
Mar 25 |
Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier |
Mar 25 |
Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2 |
Mar 26 |
Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in London |
Mar 27 |
Canada recognizes USSR |
Mar 27 |
New French government of Poincaré begins |
Mar 28 |
WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions |
Mar 29 |
Bayern & Vatican reach accord |
Mar 31 |
Croydon Airport, London: Imperial Airways established |
Mar 31 |
London public transport strike ends |
Apr 1 |
Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
Apr 1 |
Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted |
Apr 1 |
Imperial Airways forms in Britain |
Apr 1 |
The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. |
Apr 6 |
4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight |
Apr 6 |
Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament |
Apr 6 |
Völkische Block (nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bavaria |
Apr 8 |
South African State pass the Industrial Conciliation Act No 11: the act provided for job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions,and prohibited registration of black trade unions |
Apr 10 |
Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play |
Apr 11 |
1st men's college swimming championships begin |
Apr 11 |
Socialists win Danish parliamentary elections |
Apr 11 |
WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions |
Apr 13 |
Greek plebiscite for a republic |
Apr 15 |
Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain, Belgium, 1 dead |
Apr 15 |
WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions |
Apr 15 |
Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. |
Apr 16 |
1st radio-transmission of wireless: Mattheus Passion |
Apr 16 |
Child labor laws strengthened in Holland |
Apr 17 |
Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B Mayer Co merged to form MGM |
Apr 18 |
1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster) |
Apr 19 |
"National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago |
Apr 19 |
28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2 |
Apr 22 |
Hague Chambers of Commerce forms |
Apr 23 |
British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley |
Apr 27 |
Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1 |
Apr 28 |
119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster |
May 1 |
Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece |
May 2 |
Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR |
May 3 |
Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber. |
May 4 |
8th Olympic games open at Paris, France |
May 4 |
German Republic election fascists & communists win |
May 5 |
Unions terminate Twentse textile strike |
May 7 |
Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana |
May 8 |
Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231" premieres |
May 8 |
Memel territories given to Lithuania |
May 8 |
Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut |
May 10 |
J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI |
May 11 |
Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election |
May 11 |
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) |
May 11 |
Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies. |
May 12 |
50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2 |
May 12 |
7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind |
May 16 |
108°F (42°C) in Blitzen Oregon |
May 17 |
50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 |
May 18 |
Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva, Gagry Russia, painter of the Leningrad school. |
May 21 |
Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun |
May 22 |
In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks |
May 26 |
German government of Marx resigns |
May 26 |
Pres Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration |
May 29 |
AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks. |
May 30 |
Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Lora L. Corum/Joe Boyer wins in 5:05:23.595 (158.092 km/h) |
Jun 2 |
Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians |
Jun 3 |
Gila Wilderness Area established by US Forest Service |
Jun 6 |
28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich |
Jun 7 |
56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8 |
Jun 7 |
George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit |
Jun 9 |
"Jelly-Roll Blues" is recorded by blues great Jelly Roll Morton |
Jun 10 |
1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland |
Jun 11 |
Bene Brak Palestine founded |
Jun 11 |
Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC |
Jun 13 |
Bene Berak Palestine founded |
Jun 13 |
Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier |
Jun 13 |
Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win |
Jun 14 |
Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa |
Jun 14 |
WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY |
Jun 15 |
1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal |
Jun 15 |
Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile |
Jun 15 |
J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI |
Jun 15 |
Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens |
Jun 16 |
South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7 |
Jun 18 |
Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque |
Jun 19 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6) |
Jun 21 |
NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms |
Jun 23 |
8 month Twenste textile strike ends |
Jun 24 |
59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake |
Jun 26 |
After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic |
Jun 26 |
Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway |
Jun 28 |
Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's |
Jun 28 |
Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93 |
Jun 30 |
England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's |
Jul 1 |
Dircet regular transcontinental airmail service between New York and San Francisco forms |
Jul 5 |
Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil |
Jul 5 |
44th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jean Borotra beats R Lacoste (6-1 3-6 6-1 3-6 6-4) |
Jul 6 |
1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England |
Jul 7 |
Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½" |
Jul 10 |
Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim |
Jul 10 |
Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam |
Jul 11 |
Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi, India |
Jul 13 |
Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6) |
Jul 16 |
Conference over German recovery payments begins in London |
Jul 16 |
NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games |
Jul 17 |
St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
Jul 18 |
KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi |
Jul 20 |
Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris |
Jul 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. |
Jul 27 |
8th Olympic games closes in Paris |
Jul 29 |
Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship |
Aug 2 |
Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game |
Aug 3 |
Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist |
Aug 5 |
Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray debuts |
Aug 8 |
British-Russian trade agreement signed |
Aug 11 |
1st newsreel pictures of US presidential candidates were taken |
Aug 16 |
38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Mallory (6-1 6-3) |
Aug 16 |
Conference about German recovery payments opens in London |
Aug 16 |
Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed |
Aug 17 |
French-German trade agreement signed |
Aug 18 |
France begins withdrawing troops from the Ruhr |
Aug 23 |
Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century |
Aug 25 |
International maritime treaty drawn |
Aug 25 |
Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn |
Aug 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. |
Aug 28 |
Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. |
Aug 29 |
German Republic day accepts Dawes plan |
Aug 31 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2) |
Sep 1 |
Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake |
Sep 2 |
44th US Men's Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (6-1 9-7 6-2) |
Sep 2 |
Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC |
Sep 3 |
Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai) |
Sep 3 |
L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?" premieres in NYC |
Sep 6 |
Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails |
Sep 6 |
Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships |
Sep 8 |
Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador |
Sep 9 |
Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. |
Sep 10 |
Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out |
Sep 10 |
Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder |
Sep 13 |
19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0) |
Sep 14 |
Walter Johnson elected AL MVP |
Sep 16 |
Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game |
Sep 17 |
Italy signs treaty of Rapallo |
Sep 18 |
Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking |
Sep 20 |
Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams |
Sep 20 |
Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game |
Sep 24 |
Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport |
Sep 25 |
Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH |
Sep 27 |
Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1 |
Sep 28 |
2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops |
Sep 28 |
French government names Gen Serrail gov-gen of Syria |
Sep 28 |
Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico |
Sep 29 |
Santo Domingo joins League of Nations |
Sep 29 |
Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees |
Sep 30 |
Allies stop checking on German navy |
Oct 1 |
Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia) |
Oct 1 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) & 5 mile (24:06.2) |
Oct 1 |
Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell & Cozy Dolan from World Series after they admit an attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand |
Oct 2 |
League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva |
Oct 3 |
King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne |
Oct 4 |
NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series |
Oct 5 |
1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News |
Oct 7 |
Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms |
Oct 8 |
British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to Conservatives |
Oct 10 |
Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca |
Oct 10 |
Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7 |
Oct 12 |
Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow |
Oct 13 |
Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca |
Oct 14 |
Arnold Schoeberg's opera "Die Gluckliche Hand" premieres in Vienna |
Oct 15 |
Pres Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument |
Oct 18 |
Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs) |
Oct 18 |
Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen) |
Oct 19 |
General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium |
Oct 20 |
1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0 |
Oct 21 |
KLM Fokker's F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies |
Oct 22 |
Toastmasters International is founded. |
Oct 24 |
Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing |
Oct 24 |
Nobel prize for physiology/medicine awarded to W Einthoven |
Oct 25 |
"Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published |
Oct 27 |
The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. |
Oct 28 |
French-Russian trade agreement signed |
Oct 28 |
White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend |
Oct 28 |
M.de Bruin, a quarry man and miner, discovers an infant fossil skull in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Popularly known as the Taung child, Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species called Australopithecus africanus (The Southern Africa Ape). |
Oct 29 |
"Dixie to Broadway" opens at Broadhurst Theater |
Oct 29 |
Labour party loses British parliamentary election |
Oct 31 |
World Savings Day was announced in Milan, Italy, by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks). |
Nov 1 |
1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded |
Nov 1 |
Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals |
Nov 2 |
Sunday Express publishes first British crossword puzzle |
Nov 4 |
British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns |
Nov 4 |
California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914) |
Nov 4 |
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female governor (Wyoming) |
Nov 4 |
US President Calvin Coolidge re-elected |
Nov 6 |
Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK |
Nov 8 |
Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt |
Nov 8 |
Fortune Theatre opens in London |
Nov 9 |
Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) |
Nov 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. |
Nov 11 |
Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC |
Nov 11 |
Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF) |
Nov 12 |
Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron |
Nov 15 |
Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms |
Nov 16 |
Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record) |
Nov 21 |
British premier Baldwin cancels Labour contract with USSR |
Nov 22 |
Britain orders Egyptians out of Sudan |
Nov 24 |
1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java) |
Nov 26 |
Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed |
Nov 27 |
57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7) |
Nov 27 |
In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. |
Nov 28 |
Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber |
Nov 29 |
12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3 |
Nov 29 |
NHL's Montreal Forum opens |
Nov 30 |
1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC) |
Nov 30 |
Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied |
Nov 30 |
French/Belgium troops completely withdrawn from the Rurh |
Dec 1 |
Calles becomes president of Mexico |
Dec 1 |
George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good" premieres in NYC |
Dec 2 |
British-German trade agreement signed |
Dec 5 |
Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Tor Maple Leafs 10-5 |
Dec 7 |
German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose) |
Dec 9 |
Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed |
Dec 9 |
Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president |
Dec 10 |
Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years |
Dec 10 |
Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine |
Dec 13 |
KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions |
Dec 14 |
Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou |
Dec 14 |
Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma" premieres in Paris |
Dec 16 |
Noel Coward's "Vortex" premieres in London |
Dec 16 |
Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in office, the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor |
Dec 17 |
1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY |
Dec 19 |
Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings |
Dec 19 |
The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. |
Dec 20 |
Adolf Hitler freed from jail early |
Dec 22 |
Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2 |
Dec 22 |
Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in NYC |
Dec 24 |
1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands |
Dec 24 |
Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup) |
Dec 24 |
Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th NYC |
Dec 24 |
School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die |
Dec 26 |
Judy Garland, 2½, billed as Baby Frances, makes her show business debut |
Dec 30 |
Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society |
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