1924 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1924 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, Conservative (until 16 January), Ramsay MacDonald, Labour (until 4 November), Stanley Baldwin, Conservative
[edit] Events
- 10 January - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel — forty three dead.
- 22 January - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government following Stanley Baldwin's resignation.[1]
- 25 January–4 February - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France and win 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.
- February - Baldwin establishes the Conservative Consultative Committee, the first organised Shadow Cabinet.[2]
- 1 February - The United Kingdom recognises the Soviet Union.[3]
- 5 February - GMT: Hourly time signals from Royal Greenwich Observatory are broadcasted for the first time.[1]
- 28 March - First BBC broadcast from Plymouth (station 5PY).
- 23 April - First broadcast by King George V, opening the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium.
- 26 April - Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London but fails to convince British War Office.
- 4 May–27 July - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and win 9 gold, 13 silver and 12 bronze medals.
- 8 June - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers were never seen alive again.
- 11 July - Eric Liddell wins 400m gold at the Paris Olympics in a new world record time of 47.6 seconds.
- 30 August - Britain accepts the Dawes Plan for receiving German war reparations.[2]
- 14 September - First BBC broadcast from Belfast (station 2BE).
- 24 October - Foreign Office publishes Zinoviev Letter.
- 25 October - British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next two and half years.
- 29 October - The general election is won by the Conservative Party under Stanley Baldwin.[3]
- 2 November - The Sunday Express becomes the first newspaper to publish a crossword.[1]
- 24 December - Air crash in Croydon air field - 8 dead.
[edit] Undated
- Edward Victor Appleton investigates the Heaviside layer.[4]
[edit] Publications
- Agatha Christie's novel The Man in the Brown Suit.
- E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India.
- A. A. Milne's poem collection When We Were Very Young.
- Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane.
[edit] Births
- 8 January - Ron Moody, actor
- 21 January - Benny Hill, comedian and actor (died 1992)
- 7 February - Hattie Jacques, star of the Carry On films (died 1980)
- 3 March - John Woodnutt, actor (died 2006)
- 28 March - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (died 1992)
- 30 March - Alan Davidson, author (died 2003)
- 15 April - Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist
- 24 April - Clement Freud, writer, radio personality and politician (died 2009)
- 11 May
- Antony Hewish, radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Jackie Milburn, footballer (died 1988)
- 12 May - Tony Hancock, comedian (died 1968)
- 19 May - Sandy Wilson, composer
- 24 May - Vincent Cronin, historical writer and biographer
- 27 June - Bob Appleyard, cricketer
- 11 July - Charlie Tully, footballer (died 1971)
- 14 July - James W. Black, pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 7 August - Kenneth Kendall, newsreader and presenter
- 12 August - Derek Shackleton, cricketer
- 15 August - Robert Bolt, writer (died 1995)
- 4 September - Joan Aiken, writer (died 2004)
- 22 September - Charles Keeping, illustrator (died 1988)
- 22 September - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist
- 19 November - William Russell, actor
- 21 November - Christopher Tolkien, son and editor of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
- date unknown - Peter Halliday, actor
[edit] Deaths
- 2 January - Sabine Baring-Gould, composer and novelist (born 1834)
- 21 April - Marie Corelli, novelist (born 1855)
- 4 May - E. Nesbit, author (born 1858)
- 8 June/9 June - Andrew Irvine, mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (born 1902)
- 10 June - George Mallory, mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (born 1886)
- 3 August - Joseph Conrad, novelist (born 1857, Poland)
- 27 August - William Bayliss, physiologist (born 1860)
- 29 October - Frances Hodgson Burnett, author (born 1849)
- 31 December - Samuel William Knaggs, civil servant (born 1856)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 364-365. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 495–497. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
