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 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1924 - Events. 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 soon after January 21 - Vladim ...

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1924 - Deaths 1924 - Nobel Prizes

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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 rail transport - March events. March 31 - American Car and Foundry acquires Pacific Car and Foundry. 1924 in rail transport - May events. May 8 - Arthur Honegger’s “Pacifica 231” premieres. The orchestral tone poem reflects Honegger’s impressions of steam engines. 1924 in rail transport - June events. June 28 - The streetcar sys ...

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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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Abdul Mejid II (also with various alternate spellings, including Abd-ul-Mejid, Abdul Medjit, and, in modern Turkish, Abdülmecit; in Arabic عبد المجيد الثانى ) (lived May 29, 1868 – August 23, 1944; reigned November 19, 1922 – March 3, 1924) was the last Caliph of the Ottoman Dynasty, the 101st Caliph in line from Caliph Abu Bakr and nominally the 37th and last Head of the Ottoman Imperial House. On May 29, 1868 he was born at Dolmabahçe Palace of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) to th ...

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Apex was a retail department store based out of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It first opened in 1924 as a tire manufacturing business. It operated 3 large deparment stores in Pawtucket, Swansea, Massachusetts (in the Swansea Mall where it was an anchor store), and Warwick, Rhode Island. The stores selection was varied, and included clothing, electronics, small appliences, garden department, and a seasonal department. Ground broke for the Swansea on Jan 4, 1984, and the location closed Apr 5, 2001, and still stands empty as of December 2005. The Warwick location closed May 5, 2001. At this time the ...

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Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969. His undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge was interrupted by war service at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and at the Telecommunications Research Establishment where he worked with Martin Ryle. Returning to Cambrid ...

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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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William Arthur "Candy" Cummings (October 18, 1848 - May 16, 1924) was a 19th century professional baseball pitcher in the National Association and National League. Cummings had a brief but influential career. During a career which lasted from 1872 until 1877, Cummings compiled a 145-94 career record and 2.49 ERA while playing for five different teams. He is credited with being the first pitcher to throw a curveball, which he first threw at a game in Worcester, Massachusetts while playing for the Brooklyn Stars. Cummings ...

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Carol Haney (December 24, 1924 - May 10, 1964) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and opened a dancing school when she was fifteen years old. After high school, Haney left her home town for Hollywood and landed bit parts in movies until she was spotted by legendary choreographer- dancer Jack Cole, becoming his dance partner and assistant from 1946-8. In 1949, Haney was hired by Gene Kelly to be his assistant choreographer, and aided Kelly in some of his best work, including On The Town, Summer Stock, An American i ...

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William Maddock Bayliss(May 2, 1860-August 27, 1924) was an English physician. His parents were named Moses and Jane. He graduated in physiology from Wadham College, Oxford. He and Ernest Henry Starling discovered the hormone secretin. He also led to the Brown Dog affair by suing Hon. Stephen Coleridge for libel concerning what he said about Vivisection. Although he won the case Coleridge won support for his cause and gained enough money to coverage the damages. William B ...

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Allan McLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African-born American physicist who shared a part of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan. Cormack was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He attended the Rondebosch Boys High School, where he was active in the debating and tennis teams. He received his B.Sc. in physics in 1944 from the University of Cape Town and his M.Sc. in crystallography in 1945 from the same institution. He worked at ...

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Widget is a general-purpose term, or placeholder name, for any unspecified device, including those that have not yet been invented. It is commonly used in textbook and other examples where the identity of the product or function is irrelevant and could be distracting: students may be asked to design a business plan for the XYZ Widget Company. Compare Acme. The alt.usage.english Usenet newsgroup FAQ gives the origin of "widget" as the 1924 play "Buxton on Horseback", by George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, as an inv ...

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी in Devanagari) (born December 25, 1924) was the Prime Minister of India in 1996 and again from October 13, 1998 until May 19, 2004. He is the senior-most leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu Nationalism in Indian politics. He has served as a member of the Parliament of India for nearly 50 years. Atal Bihari Vajpayee - Early Life and Family. Vajpayee is a native of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh and has been active in ...

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The United States Border Patrol (USBP), a Federal police force, is the mobile uniformed law enforcement arm of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a bureau of the Department of Homeland Security. The Border Patrol was originally founded on May 28, 1924 as an agency of the United States Department of Labor. Prior to 2003, the Border Patrol was part of the Immigration and Naturalizati ...

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United States Border Patrol - 1986 - Employer Sanctions and Interior Enforcement United States Border Patrol - Deterrence becomes the new strategy United States Border Patrol - El Paso Sector's Operation Hold the Line United States Border Patrol - San Diego Sector's Operation Gatekeeper United States Border Patrol - Tucson Sector's Operation Safeguard United States Border Patrol - The New Border Patrol Strategy
United States Border Patrol - A Growing Agency United States Border Patrol - Specialized Units
United States Border Patrol - Tactical Teams United States Border Patrol - Search and Rescue United States Border Patrol - Other Units
United States Border Patrol - Newton-Azrak Award

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Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a national monument and national preserve located in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho near Arco, Idaho. The features in this protected area are volcanic and represent one of the best preserved flood basalt areas in the continental United States. The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. In November 2000, a Presidential proclamation greatly expanded the Monument area. The National Park Service portions of the expanded Monument were designated as a national preserve in August 2002. The area is ma ...

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Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve - Conditions Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve - Plants Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve - Mule Deer
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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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