* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1924 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1924 – Carroll O ' Connor, American actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the " Beer Hall Putsch ".

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

* 1924 – Lloyd Hildebrand, French racing cyclist ( b. 1870 )

* 1924 – Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter ( b. 1876 )

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress ( d. 2007 )

* 1924 – Frank Worrell, Indian cricketer ( d. 1967 )

* 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-English writer ( b. 1857 )

* 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster ( b. 1924 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )

When Katō Takaaki became the prime minister and set up a coalition cabinet 1924, Takahashi accepted the post of Minister of Agriculture and Commerce.

In June 1924, Wakatsuki was named Home Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Katō Takaaki, and worked to enact the Universal Manhood Suffrage Law and the Peace Preservation Law in 1925.

He later served as Finance Minister under the 1st and 2nd administrations of Katō Takaaki ( 1924, 1925 ) and as Home Minister under the cabinet of Wakatsuki Reijirō ( 1926 ).

In 1922, the Rikken Kokumintō became the Kakushin Kurabu, which joined forces with other minor parties to form the cabinet during the premiership of Katō Takaaki in 1924.

In 1924, Shidehara became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Katō Takaaki and continued in this post under Prime Ministers Wakatsuki Reijirō and Osachi Hamaguchi.

Yoshimoto was born in 1924, in Tsukishima, Tokyo.

* 1924 – Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician ( d. 2000 )

image: Tomioka Tessai Two Divinities Dancing. jpg | Tomioka Tessai, ( 1837 – 1924 ), Nihonga style, Two Divinities Dancing, 1924, Japanese

In 1924 Keio University established the first university karate club in Japan and by 1932, major Japanese universities had karate clubs.

* 1924 – Machiko Kyô, Japanese actress

* January 22 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese author ( b. 1924 )

* December 15 – Rikidōzan, Korea-born Japanese professional wrestler ( b. 1924 )

** Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician ( b. 1924 )

* Ralph Lazo, born in 1924 in Los Angeles, was of Mexican American and Irish American descent, but when at age 16 he learned that his Japanese American friends and neighbors were being forcibly removed and incarcerated at Manzanar, he was outraged.

However, the Japanese were later targeted in the National Origins Act of 1924, which banned immigration from east Asia entirely.

Kim was thought to have been born on 6 January 1924, but it is reported that he later changed this to 3 December 1925 to avoid conscription during the time when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule.

In 1924, the Imperial Japanese Navy declared in an edict on fleet organization that " for the time being " the Combined Fleet would be a permanent organization consisting of the IJN 1st Fleet and IJN 2nd Fleet.

Japanese-speaking enthusiasts may enjoy An Illustrated Guide to the Locked Room 1891-1998 ( text by Alice Arisugawa and illustrations by Kazuichi Isoda ) which contains summaries of 40 novels and short stories, 20 of which are Anglo-Saxon classics – the other 20 being Japanese classics from 1924 to the present day.

, also called Gonnohyōe, was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the 16th ( 20 February 1913 – 16 April 1914 ) and 22nd ( 2 September 1923 – 7 January 1924 ) Prime Minister of Japan.

Count was a Japanese politician and the 24th Prime Minister of Japan from 11 June 1924 to 28 January 1926.

From 1923 to 1924 he was the Japanese Army Representative to the League of Nations, followed by another stint attached to the Inspectorate General of Military Training from 1924 to 1925.

Set in Shanghai in 1924, the film is about a covert cell of insurrectionist anarchists who attempt to overthrow the Japanese government's occupation of Korea through propaganda of the deed.

In 1907, the " Gentlemen's Agreement " between the governments of Japan and the U. S. ended immigration of Japanese workers ( i. e., men ), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the U. S. The Immigration Act of 1924 banned the immigration of all but a token few Japanese, until the Immigration Act of 1965, there was very little further Japanese immigration.

In 1924, however, friendly U. S .- Japanese relations were torpedoed by the Japanese Exclusion Act.