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The following events occurred in January 1924:

January 21, 1924: Soviet Union founder and leader Vladimir Lenin dies of a stroke
January 25, 1924: The first Winter Olympics open at Chamonix

January 1, 1924 (Tuesday)

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  • The Rose Bowl football game, at the time the only postseason bowl game in the U.S., was played before 40,000 spectators between the Washington Huskies (who had an 8-1-0 record and were selected by the Rose Bowl Committee despite having lost to the unbeaten California Golden Bears) and the Navy Midshipmen (a 5-1-2 team whom the Huskies had been allowed to pick as their opponent). The teams played to a 14–14 tie after Washington tied the game with a fourth quarter touchdown.[1]
  • During a New Year's Day party at the home of millionaire oil broker Courtland S. Dines, the chauffeur of actress Mabel Normand shot and wounded Dines in the abdomen with a pistol belonging to Normand. When police arrived they found Normand and fellow actress Edna Purviance in the kitchen frantically insisting they didn't know how Dines came to be shot. Alcohol was found on the premises (illegal at the time under Prohibition), and the whole episode caused a scandal which caused some exhibitors to pull Purviance's film A Woman of Paris from theaters.[2][3]
  • Born: Earl Torgeson, baseball player, 1950 NL runs scored leader and 1957 AL fielding average leader; in Snohomish, Washington (d. 1990)
  • Died: Billy Miske, 29, American boxer, died of Bright's disease

January 2, 1924 (Wednesday)

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January 3, 1924 (Thursday)

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January 4, 1924 (Friday)

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  • 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.[12]
  • Born: Wally Ris, American competitive swimmer, 1948 Olympic gold medalist in the 100m freestyle; in Chicago (d. 1989)

January 5, 1924 (Saturday)

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A 1924 Chrysler Six B-70[14]

January 6, 1924 (Sunday)

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January 7, 1924 (Monday)

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January 8, 1924 (Tuesday)

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  • The 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.[25]
  • 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.[26]
  • Born: Ron Moody, English stage and film actor known for his portrayal of Fagin in the 1968 film musical Oliver! and the 1983 Broadway revival; actor, in Tottenham, Middlesex (d. 2015)

January 9, 1924 (Wednesday)

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  • Ramsay MacDonald was re-elected leader of Britain's Labour Party at a full party meeting.[27]
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  • Died: Franz Josef Heinz, 39, German separatist former leader of the "Autonomous Palatinate" in association with the Rhenish Republic, was assassinated in Speyer by 20 members of the German nationalist paramilitary group, the Viking League. The attack on the dining room of the Wittelsbacher Hof also killed a hotel guest and an employee, while two of the assassins died in a shootout.[29]

January 10, 1924 (Thursday)

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January 11, 1924 (Friday)

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January 12, 1924 (Saturday)

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  • Mexican mountaineer irregulars loyal to President Obregón recaptured Oaxaca City from the rebels.[36]
  • 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.[37]
  • Bengali activist Gopinath Saha shot a man he thought was Calcutta police commissioner Charles Tegart, but learned that he had killed a different Englishman, Ernest Day, instead. Saha was sentenced to death for the crime and hanged on March 1.[38]
  • Born:
  • Died: Alexis Lapointe, 63, eccentric French Canadian endurance runner, was killed when he was struck by a train.[39]

January 13, 1924 (Sunday)

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January 14, 1924 (Monday)

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  • Charles G. Dawes accepted the chairmanship of a committee assembled to investigate Germany's capacity to pay its war reparations.[45]
  • Britain began an independent investigation into the Rhineland separatist movement, against the wishes of France.[41]
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  • Died:
    • Luther Emmett Holt, 68, American pediatrician, author of the best selling books The Care and Feeding of Children and Diseases of Infancy and Childhood
    • Howard R. Hughes Sr., 54, American inventor who founded the Hughes Tool Company and became wealthy as the developer of the two-cone rotary Sharp-Hughes Rock Bit for drilling of oil wells, died of a heart attack.

January 15, 1924 (Tuesday)

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  • The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes, was broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation from its studios in London.[46]
  • King George V and Queen Mary opened the new session of British Parliament.[47]
  • 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.[48]
  • SMS Berlin became the first German Navy warship since the 1918 end of World War One to embark on an overseas voyage, departing Kiel on a two-month tour of the islands of the North Atlantic Ocean, before returning on March 18.[49]

January 16, 1924 (Wednesday)

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January 17, 1924 (Thursday)

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The hit record of 1924

January 18, 1924 (Friday)

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January 19, 1924 (Saturday)

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January 20, 1924 (Sunday)

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January 21, 1924 (Monday)

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  • Vladimir Lenin, the semi-retired founder and leader of the Soviet Union and the de facto leader of the USSR as First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, died at his estate in Gorki at 18:50 hrs Moscow time following a stroke.[25][65] 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, and an eyewitness reported never seeing so many men in tears.[25]
  • By a margin of 328 to 256, the British House of Commons endorsed a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his government ministry.[66]
  • India's 145-member Central Legislative Assembly, the lower chamber of the Imperial Legislative Council, convened at the Council House in New Delhi following the November election. The session, with 105 natives of India and 40 nominated members (most of whom were British or of British ancestry), was opened by The Earl of Reading, the British Viceroy of India.[67]
  • Albania's 102-member parliament, the Kuvendi i Shqipërisë, opened following the 1923 election.[68]
  • At midnight, 60,000 rail workers went on strike in the United Kingdom to protest 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.[69]
  • 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.[70][71][72]
  • The musical comedy Lollipop with book by Zelda Sears, lyrics by Sears and Walter De Leon and music by Vincent Youmans opened on Broadway.[73]
  • Born:
    • Madhu Dandavate, Indian physicist and modernized the railroad system of India while serving as Minister of Railways (1977 to 1979) and later became India's Minister of Finance; in Ahmednagar, Bombay Province (now in Maharashtra state), British India (d. 2005)
    • Benny Hill (stage name for Alfred Hawthorne Hill), English comedian and TV actor known for his risque syndicated program, winner of two Emmy Awards for outstanding variety; in Southampton (d. 1992)
  • Died: Vladimir Lenin, 53, Russian Communist and leader of the Soviet Union since 1918

January 22, 1924 (Tuesday)

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January 23, 1924 (Wednesday)

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January 24, 1924 (Thursday)

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January 25, 1924 (Friday)

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January 26, 1924 (Saturday)

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January 27, 1924 (Sunday)

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January 28, 1924 (Monday)

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January 29, 1924 (Tuesday)

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  • Supported by the Mexican Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Mexicana), Mexican federal troops won a hard-fought battle for Esperanza in the state of Puebla. The battle was one of the turning points of the Delahuertista Rebellion, the attempt by former President Adolfo de la Huerta to overthrow President Álvaro Obregón. Ralph O'Neill, a Mexican-born American with dual citizenship and a veteran pilot for the U.S. in World War One, led a counterattack against the insurgents with strafing runs by the FAM's De Havilland DH-4B combat aircraft, which had been purchased when De la Huerta had been president.[92][93]
  • Britain's railway strike was settled.[94]
  • Charles G. Dawes and other members of his committee arrived in Berlin.[95]
  • Born: Luigi Nono, Italian classical music composer; in Venice (d. 1990)

January 30, 1924 (Wednesday)

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Acting Prime Minister Page signing the first official document in Canberra

January 31, 1924 (Thursday)

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