1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1924 - Events. 1924 - January. January 7 - Great fire in London harbour January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead. January 12 - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested so ...

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Stanley Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin - Early life, Stanley Baldwin - First appointment as Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin - Return to office, Stanley Baldwin - Later Life, Stanley Baldwin - First Government May 1923 - January 1924, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Second Cabinet November 1924 - June 1929, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Third Cabinet June 1935 - May 1937, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Miscellaneous

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1924 - January-February. January 2 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834) January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach and broadcaster January 6 - Earl Scruggs, American musician January 11 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recpient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine January 11 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994) January 11 - Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970) January 12 - Olivier Gendebien ...

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1924 in South Africa - January. 21 January - Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone is appointed the 4th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa 1924 in South Africa - June. 30 June - James Barry Munnik Hertzog becomes the 3th Prime Minister of South Africa ...

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1924 in South Africa, 1924 in South Africa - Events, 1924 in South Africa - January, 1924 in South Africa - June, 1924 in South Africa - Births, 1924 in South Africa - Deaths

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1924 in Australia - January. January 1 The Commonwealth Solar Observatory was established. Located on Mount Stromlo, outside Canberra, it enabled scientific research on the sun and geophysics. January 1 The Australian Automobile Association was formed. It lobbied for federal finance for roads and a national traffic code. January 30 The first Cabinet meeting was held in Canberra. The ministers were lodged at Yarralumla House, later t ...

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1924 in Australia, 1924 in Australia - Events, 1924 in Australia - January, 1924 in Australia - February, 1924 in Australia - March, 1924 in Australia - April, 1924 in Australia - May, 1924 in Australia - June, 1924 in Australia - July, 1924 in Australia - August, 1924 in Australia - September, 1924 in Australia - October, 1924 in Australia - November, 1924 in Australia - December, 1924 in Australia - Unknown Date, 1924 in Australia - Births, 1924 in Australia - Deaths

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Born at Bewdley in Worcestershire, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (where he received a third class degree in history), and went into the family business. In the 1906 general election he contested Kidderminster but lost amidst an anti-Conservative landslide. In 1908 he succeeded his deceased father as MP for Bewdley. During the First World War he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law and in 1917 he was appointed to the junior ministerial post of Financial Secretary to the Trea ...

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Stanley Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin - Early life, Stanley Baldwin - First appointment as Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin - Return to office, Stanley Baldwin - Later Life, Stanley Baldwin - First Government May 1923 - January 1924, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Second Cabinet November 1924 - June 1929, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Third Cabinet June 1935 - May 1937, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Miscellaneous

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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman representing New York's 12th District from 1969-1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she became the first African American and the first woman to make a serious bid to be President of the United States. Born in Brooklyn, New York as Shirley St. Hill, she spent part of her childhood in Barbados with her grandmother, attending the local ...

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Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (October 23, 1831 - January 9, 1924), American classical scholar, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, son of Benjamin Gildersleeve (1791-1875), a Presbyterian evangelist, and editor of the Charleston Christian Observer in 1826-1845, of the Richmond (Va.) Watchman and Observer in 1845-1856, and of The Central Presbyterian in 1856-1860. The son graduated at Princeton in 1849 at the age of eighteen, and went on to study under Franz in Berlin, under Friedrich Ritschl at Bonn and u ...

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Charles Leonard Gehringer (May 11, 1903 - January 21, 1993) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Detroit Tigers (1924-1942). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. A native of Fowlerville, Michigan, Gehringer has been considered by most to be one of the greatest second basemen of all time. He led the American League in both assists and fielding percentage seven times each. Nicknamed "The Mechanical Man", for both his renowned consistency batting and his silen ...

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Consuelo Velázquez (1916?-January 22, 2005), was a Mexican songwriter. According to her obituary she was 88 years old. Most music resources, however, list her birth date as August 29, 1924 in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco State, Mexico. Velázquez was the songwriter and lyricist of many Latin standard songs, such as Amar y vivir, Verdad amarga, Franqueza, Que seas feliz, Cachito, Enamorada and, most no ...

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин listen ▶ (help·info)), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) (April 22 (April 10 (O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Communist revolutionary of Russia, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of Leninism, which he described as ...

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Alfred Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist, best known for his simple black and white satirical portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he moved with his family to New York City, where he received his art training. In 1924 he traveled to Paris and London, where he studied painting, drawing and sculpture. When he returned to the United States, a friend showed one of his drawings to an editor at the New York Herald Tribune, which got him commissio ...

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Paul Karl Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 - February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science who lived in England, the United States, New Zealand, Italy, and finally Switzerland. His major works include Against Method (published in 1975), Science in a Free Society (published in 1978) and Farewell to Reason (a collection of papers published in 1987). Feyerabend became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. He is an infl ...

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In May 1923, when Bonar Law discovered that he was dying of cancer, he retired immediately. Due to many of the party's leading figures' standing aloof from the government, there were only two candidates to succeed him — Lord Curzon, the Foreign Secretary, and Stanley Baldwin. The choice formally fell to King George V acting on the advice of senior ministers and officials. It is not entirely clear what factors were the most crucial, but many felt that Curzon was unsuitable to be Prime Minister, due to his being a member of the House of Lord ...

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Stanley Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin - Early life, Stanley Baldwin - First appointment as Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin - Return to office, Stanley Baldwin - Later Life, Stanley Baldwin - First Government May 1923 - January 1924, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Second Cabinet November 1924 - June 1929, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Third Cabinet June 1935 - May 1937, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Miscellaneous

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Stanley Baldwin - Changes. November 1935 - Malcolm MacDonald succeeds J.H. Thomas as Dominions Secretary. Thomas succeeds MacDonald as Colonial Secretary. Lord Halifax succeeds Lord Londonderry as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. Duff Cooper succeeds Lord Halifax as Secretary for War. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister becomes Viscount Swinton and Bolton Eyres-Monsell becomes Viscount Monsell, both remaining in the Cabinet. December 1935 Anthony Eden succeeds Sir Samuel Hoare as Foreign Se ...

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Stanley Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin - Early life, Stanley Baldwin - First appointment as Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin - Return to office, Stanley Baldwin - Later Life, Stanley Baldwin - First Government May 1923 - January 1924, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Second Cabinet November 1924 - June 1929, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Third Cabinet June 1935 - May 1937, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Miscellaneous

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Prior to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, two governmental systems co-existed uneasily. Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Lord Lieutenant's administration. The legal government of Ireland was an executive and Irish Privy Council under the British Lord Lieutenant of Ireland but in reality run by the effective prime minister, the Chief Secretary for Ireland. In January 1922, the Lord Lieutenant's administration was replaced by the Provisional Government, chosen by the House of Commons of Southern Ireland in accordance with the provisions of the ...

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Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Origins, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Lord Lieutenant's administration, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - The Irish Republic, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Enactment of the 1922 constitution, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Abolitions creations and renamings, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Structures created, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Other key parts of the Act, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Enactment of the law, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Longterm impact of the Act, Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 - Footnotes

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Stanley Baldwin - Changes. 1925 On Lord Curzon of Kedleston's death, Lord Balfour succeeded him as Lord President. W. Guinness succeeded E.F.L. Wood as Minister of Agriculture. Lord Salisbury becomes the new Leader of the House of Lords, remaining also Lord Privy Seal. The post of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs is created and held by Leo Amery in tandem with Secretary of State for the Colonies. 1926 - The post of Secretary of Scotland is upgraded to Secretary of State for Scotland. See also:

Stanley Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin - Early life, Stanley Baldwin - First appointment as Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin - Return to office, Stanley Baldwin - Later Life, Stanley Baldwin - First Government May 1923 - January 1924, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Second Cabinet November 1924 - June 1929, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Third Cabinet June 1935 - May 1937, Stanley Baldwin - Changes, Stanley Baldwin - Miscellaneous

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1850 - January - April. January 4 - Frederick York Powell, English historian and scholar (died 1904) January 6 - Eduard Bernstein, German social democratic theoretician and politician (died 1932) January 6 - Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (died 1924) January 10 - John Wellborn Root, U.S. architect (died 1891) January 11 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (died 1917) January 14 - Pierre Loti, French sailor and writer (died 1923) Janu ...

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1850, 1850 - Events, 1850 - Unknown Date, 1850 - Births, 1850 - January - April, 1850 - May - December, 1850 - Unknown Date, 1850 - Deaths, 1850 - January - May, 1850 - June - December, 1850 - Unknown Date

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1850 - January - April. January 4 - Frederick York Powell, English historian and scholar (died 1904) January 6 - Eduard Bernstein, German social democratic theoretician and politician (died 1932) January 6 - Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (died 1924) January 10 - John Wellborn Root, U.S. architect (died 1891) January 11 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (died 1917) January 14 - Pierre Loti, French sailor and writer (died 1923) Janu ...

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1850, 1850 - Events, 1850 - Unknown Date, 1850 - Births, 1850 - January - April, 1850 - May - December, 1850 - Unknown Date, 1850 - Deaths, 1850 - January - May, 1850 - June - December, 1850 - Unknown Date

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1994 - January. January 1 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900) January 5 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1912) January 9 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927) January 15 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941) January 17 - Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918) January 22 - Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924) January 23 - Brian Redhead, British journalist and bro ...

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1994, 1994 - Events, 1994 - January, 1994 - February, 1994 - March, 1994 - April, 1994 - May, 1994 - June, 1994 - July, 1994 - August, 1994 - September, 1994 - October, 1994 - November, 1994 - December, 1994 - Births, 1994 - Deaths, 1994 - January, 1994 - February-April, 1994 - May-October, 1994 - November-December, 1994 - Nobel Prizes, 1994 - Fields Medalists, 1994 - Templeton Prize, 1994 - Right Livelihood Award

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