January 1924

January 1, 1924 (Tuesday)

January 2, 1924 (Wednesday)

January 3, 1924 (Thursday)

January 4, 1924 (Friday)

  • Germany issued an emergency decree known as the Emminger Reform, best known for abolishing the jury system in court proceedings and replacing it with a mixed system of judges.
  • The Kingdom of Yugoslavia sent another sharp note to Bulgaria saying it would not accept the return of Ferdinand from exile or any further provocations. Newspapers in Belgrade clamored for war.[8]
  • Born: Wally Ris, competitive swimmer, in Chicago (d. 1989)
  • Died: John Peters, 73, American baseball player

January 5, 1924 (Saturday)

  • The National Assembly of Greece elected national hero Eleftherios Venizelos as its Speaker, but he had to leave due to illness. It was later announced that he'd had a minor heart attack.[9] He would only serve six days in the position.
  • Factories and mines in the Ruhr region shut down as laborers refused to work ten hours a day.[10]

January 6, 1924 (Sunday)

  • Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk survived a bomb attack, but his wife Latife Uşşaki was injured.[4] The assailant visited Atatürk's home and asked to see him, then threw a bomb when he appeared.[11]
  • The French government gave the Catholic Church the right to reoccupy its former property under the "diocesan associations" system.[12]
  • Born: Earl Scruggs, musician, near Boiling Springs, North Carolina (d. 2012)

January 7, 1924 (Monday)

January 8, 1924 (Tuesday)

  • Soviet newspaper Pravda reported that Leon Trotsky was ill, a statement which the rank and file took to mean as a sign of his imminent removal.[14]
  • United Kingdom Labour Party leader Ramsay MacDonald gave a speech at a packed Royal Albert Hall where he announced that Labour would accept office as soon as it was invited to do so, though it would be taking over a "bankrupt estate". MacDonald pledged to run the country along sound economic lines, make efforts through the League of Nations to retain peace in Europe, and end the "pompous folly" of refusing to recognize the Soviet Union.[15]
  • Born: Ron Moody, actor, in Tottenham, England

January 9, 1924 (Wednesday)

January 10, 1924 (Thursday)

  • The British submarine HMS L24 sank in a collision with the battleship HMS Resolution in a training exercise in the English Channel. All 43 crewmen were lost.[17][18]
  • In the occupied Rhineland, the border to the rest of Germany was closed to traffic except for railroad business and food supplies and a curfew was imposed, due to fears of a new separatist coup attempt after the murder of Franz Josef Heinz the previous day.[19]
  • Relations between Britain and France became strained when French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré refused to allow British officials into the occupied Rhineland to conduct their own investigation of the separatist movement there.[19]
  • Born: Max Roach, jazz drummer, in Newland, North Carolina (d. 2007)

January 11, 1924 (Friday)

January 12, 1924 (Saturday)

  • Mexican mountaineer irregulars loyal to President Obregón recaptured Oaxaca City from the rebels.[21]
  • France rejected a British-backed proposal to arrange a League of Nations committee to investigate separatism in the Rhineland Palatinate. Prime Minister Poincaré insisted it was strictly the business of the countries directly involved in administrating the region.[22]
  • Bengali activist Gopinath Saha shot a man he thought was Calcutta police commissioner Charles Tegart, but he'd killed a different Englishman instead. Saha would be sentenced to death for the crime.[23]
  • Born: Chris Chase, model, actress, and journalist, in New York City (d. 2013); Olivier Gendebien, racing driver, in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1998)
  • Died: Alexis Lapointe, 63, French Canadian athlete

January 13, 1924 (Sunday)

January 14, 1924 (Monday)

January 15, 1924 (Tuesday)

  • King George V and Queen Mary opened the new session of British Parliament.[28]
  • The French Cabinet drafted a plan to stabilize the franc, which had lost more than three-quarters of its pre-war value. The plan called for many tax hikes and a reduction in civil servants.[29]
  • The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes, was broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation from its studios in London.[30]

January 16, 1924 (Wednesday)

January 17, 1924 (Thursday)

January 18, 1924 (Friday)

  • Conflicting accounts arose as to the whereabouts of Leon Trotsky amid rumors he had been arrested.[36] He was in fact traveling to the Black Sea to convalesce from illness.[14]
  • A Soviet party conference ended with the passing of a resolution blaming Trotsky for divisions within the Communist Party. Joseph Stalin attacked Trotsky in a withering speech accusing him of sowing dissent.[14][37]
  • A preliminary hearing into the New Year's Day shooting of Courtland Dines began in Los Angeles.[2] Edna Purviance testified that she was not present in the room when the shooting occurred.[38]
  • In Madison Square Garden, world middleweight boxing champion Harry Greb defeated Johnny Wilson in a fifteen-round decision to retain the title.

January 19, 1924 (Saturday)

January 20, 1924 (Sunday)

January 21, 1924 (Monday)

  • 60,000 rail workers went on strike in the United Kingdom beginning at midnight, protesting a recent reduction in wages ordered by the National Wage Board. British newspapers with nationwide distribution arranged fleets of trucks to maintain their circulations during the work stoppage.[41]
  • The British House of Commons passed a motion of no confidence against the Stanley Baldwin government, 328 to 256.[42]
  • Semi-retired Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died at his estate in Gorki at 18:50 hrs Moscow time following a stroke.[14][43]
  • Top Soviet leaders were convening at the Eleventh All-Russia Congress of Soviets at the Bolshoi Theatre when news of Lenin's death was communicated by telephone; an eyewitness reported never seeing so many men in tears.[14]
  • Mabel Normand and Courtland S. Dines testified in the New Year's Day shooting case when the court convened in the hospital where they were staying (Normand was there with an inflamed appendix). Both of them claimed to be unable to remember much about the incident.[44][45][46]
  • The musical comedy Lollipop with book by Zelda Sears, lyrics by Sears and Walter De Leon and music by Vincent Youmans opened on Broadway.[47]
  • Born: Benny Hill, comedian and actor, in Southampton, England (d. 1992)
  • Died: Vladimir Lenin, 53, communist revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union

January 22, 1924 (Tuesday)

January 23, 1924 (Wednesday)

January 24, 1924 (Thursday)

January 25, 1924 (Friday)

January 26, 1924 (Saturday)

January 27, 1924 (Sunday)

January 28, 1924 (Monday)

January 29, 1924 (Tuesday)

January 30, 1924 (Wednesday)

January 31, 1924 (Thursday)

  • The United States Senate passed a resolution concerning the Teapot Dome scandal, stating that the leases to the Mammoth Oil Company and the Pan American Petroleum Company "were executed under circumstances indicating fraud and corruption".[52]
  • Japanese Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo dissolved the National Diet and called for new elections. A brawl broke out during the morning session over accusations that the government had failed to protect a train that prominent opposition leaders were riding on when it was pelted with rocks and timbers.[65]
  • White Sox owner Charles Comiskey took the stand as a hostile witness in the Joe Jackson lawsuit trial.
  • Former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was reported to be seriously ill with a digestive disorder.[66]
  • Twenty-four days after the death of his wife, Prussian state executioner Paul Spaethe dressed in formal evening wear, lit 45 candles – one for each person he'd beheaded – and committed suicide with a revolver.[4][67][68]

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