* 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 )

The Border Patrol was founded on May 28, 1924 as an agency of the United States Department of Labor to prevent illegal entries along the Mexico – United States border and the United States-Canada border.

A History of the U. S. Border Patrol ( University of California Press ; 2010 ) 274 pages ; draws on previously lost and untapped records in a history of the force since its beginnings in 1924.

The Border Protection Corps (, KOP ) was a Polish military formation that was created in 1924 to defend the country's eastern borders against armed Soviet incursions and local bandits.

On September 17, 1924, the new formation was officially created under the name of Border Defence Corps.

Short-range reconnaissance was carried out by the Border Defense Corps, created in 1924.

The teams have waged the " Border War " more than one hundred times since the schools began playing in 1899, playing every year except 1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1918, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1943, 1944, and 1945.

* The Border Legion ( 1924 )

In late 1924, Keitel was transferred to the Ministry of Defence ( Reichswehrministerium ), serving with the Troop Office ( Truppenamt ), the post-Versailles disguised General Staff.

Mulcahy served as Defence Minister in the new Free State government from January 1924 until March 1924, but resigned in protest because of the sacking of the Army Council after criticism by the Executive Council over the handling of the so-called Army Mutiny — when some Irish Army War of Independence officers almost revolted after Mulcahy demobilised many of them at the end of the Civil War.

None of these concerns had been borne out by experience during the bombing raids of the First World War, when eighty specially adapted tube stations had been pressed into use, but in a highly controversial decision in January 1924, Anderson, then chairman of the Air Raid Precautions Committee of Imperial Defence and had ruled out the tube station shelter option in any future conflict.

The Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 assigned the minister the additional title of Commander-in-Chief as the Chairman of the Council of Defence.

With the establishment of the Defence Forces in 1924 the Air Service became the new Army's Air Corps and remained part of the Army until the 1990s.

The Canadian Air Force was incorporated into the Department of National Defence in 1923 and granted royal sanction in 1924 by King George V.

With the establishment of the Defence Forces in 1924, the 18-pdr was the only artillery weapon in Irish service, forming the 1st and 2nd Field Batteries of the Artillery Corps.

London: Indian Defence Committee, 1924.

He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1924, serving as Minister for Defence until 1927.

The Minister of National Defence became responsible for the Canadian Militia, the Royal Canadian Navy and, from 1924, the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The Fleet Air Arm was formed in 1924 as organisational unit of the Royal Air Force which was then operating the aircraft embarked on RN ships – the Royal Naval Air Service having been merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps in 1918 – and did not come under the direct control of the Admiralty until mid-1939.

From 1924 to 1947 the Air Service, United States Army Air Corps, United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force used a designation system based on mission category, with each model in a category numbered sequentially.

* 1924 United States Army Air Service aircraft designation system also applied to aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps, United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force

From January 27, 1921 to May 4, 1922, Holbrook served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Supply, Ninth Corps Area ; and as Chief of Staff, Ninth Corps Area until June 30, 1924.

In 1924, Colonel William Blaire in the U. S. Signal Corps did the first primitive experiments with weather measurements from balloon, making use of the temperature dependence of radio circuits.

As a major, he commanded Kelly Field, Texas, from October 5, 1920, to February 1921, served at Fort Sam Houston as air officer of the Eighth Corps Area until November 1921, and was commanding officer of the 1st Pursuit Group, first at Ellington Field, Texas, and later at Selfridge Field, Michigan, until September 24, 1924.

The most widely accepted theory of where the name Jimmy comes from is a Royal Signals boxer, called Jimmy Emblem, who was the British Army Champion in 1924 and represented the Royal Corps of Signals from 1921 to 1924.

In February 1924, after serving at Marine Corps Headquarters and in the West Indies in connection with joint Army-Navy maneuvers, Smith joined the Marine Brigade on expeditionary duty in Haiti, serving as that unit's Chief of Staff and Officer in Charge of Operations and Training.

Reverted to basic rank of major and was director of the Army War College, 1919 – 1920 ; was promoted to colonel of cavalry and assigned as commander, District of Arizona, 1920 – 1921 ; was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular Army, April 1921 ; served as commandant of the United States Army Cavalry School, 1921 – 1923 ; commanded the Coast Artillery District of Manila, 1923 – 1924 ; was promoted to major general and assigned as chief of cavalry, 1924 – 1926 ; was assistant chief of staff, G – 3, of the Army, 1926 – 1927, then commanded the Fourth Corps Area, 1927, the Panama Canal Division, 1927 – 1928, the Panama Canal Department, 1928 – 1930, and the Ninth Corps Area, 1930 – 1935 ; was commandant of the Army War College, 1935 ; was promoted to general, October 1935 ; was chief of staff of the United States Army, October 2, 1935 – August 31, 1939 ; Malin Craig Chief of Staff of the United States Army | U. S. Army Chief of staff ( in the centre of the pictire ) riding in an Armistice Day parade with Fulgencio Batista ( on left in the picture ) in Washington D. C .,.

On May 1, 1921 the Corps was reorganized on Jan 1, 1924 and designated the Cadet Services of Canada.

When Andrew Bonar Law became Prime Minister in 1922 he appointed Clarendon Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ( government chief whip in the House of Lords ), a position he also held under Stanley Baldwin until January 1924, and again from December 1924 to 1925.

On May 1, 1921 the Corps was disbanded and reorganized on Jan 1, 1924 and designated the Cadet Services of Canada.

* 1924 United States Army Air Corps aircraft designation system also applied to aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force

He attended Mayville Preparatory School, Southsea from 1912 to 1915 and then Portsmouth Grammar School from 1915 to 1924, where he showed no particular academic aptitude but very much enjoyed the Officers ' Training Corps ; when in later life he returned to present prizes, he told the pupils that his parents would have been very surprised to see him in the hall on speech day because he had never come close to winning any school award.