* 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 )

* 1924 – Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – Victor Grinich, American businessman ( b. 1924 )

* February 1 – Victor Herbert, Irish-born composer ( Babes In Toyland ) ( d. 1924 )

One of the early female singers to use scat was Aileen Stanley who included it at the end of a duet with Billy Murray in their hit 1924 recording of " It Had To Be You "( Victor 19373 ).

The British newspaper, The Guardian, recently reviewed the work of director Victor Sjöström and they wrote, " And in America his three most famous works-He Who Gets Slapped ( 1924 ), The Scarlet Letter ( 1926 ) and The Wind ( 1928 )-each dealt with human suffering.

Two food webs about herring were produced by Victor Summerhayes and Charles Elton and Alister Hardy in 1923 and 1924.

Two audio recordings exist of Gershwin performing an abridged version of the work with Whiteman's orchestra: an acoustic recording made June 10, 1924, released on two sides of Victor 55225 and running 8: 59 ( this recording includes the original clarinetist, Ross Gorman, playing the glissando ) and an electrical recording made April 21, 1927, released on both sides of Victor 35822 and running 9: 01 ( about half the length of the complete work ).

Karl Erik wanted his son, Victor Hasselblad, to have a wide understanding of the camera business, and sent him to Dresden, Germany, then the world center of the optics industry, at age 18 ( circa 1924 ).

Victor went on to record the New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Willem Mengelberg and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with Rudolph Ganz from 1922, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Alfred Hertz from 1925 ; Hertz's earliest discs, made at Victor's new Oakland studios ( opened in 1924 ), were the company's last acoustical orchestral sessions.

A few years later, Victor acquired its Canadian counterpart, Berliner Gramophone of Canada, in 1924.

Brunswick also embarked on an ambitious domestic classical recording program, recording the New York String Quartet, the Cleveland Orchestra under Nikolai Sokoloff ( who had been recording acoustically for Brunswick since 1924 ), and in a tremendous steal from Victor, the New York Philharmonic with conductors Willem Mengelberg and Arturo Toscanini.

The Berliner name as a record label lasted longest in Canada, until 1924 when it was bought out by USA's Victor, becoming RCA Victor in 1929.

In 1924, he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became a full-fledged star with such high-profile films as His Hour directed by King Vidor and written by Elinor Glyn ; He Who Gets Slapped ( both 1924 ), co-starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Norma Shearer, and directed by Victor Sjöström ; and The Merry Widow ( 1925 ) directed by Erich von Stroheim and co-starring Mae Murray.

Forming " The Royal Canadians " in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating " The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven.

Victor August Herbert ( February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924 ) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor.

He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the best known was his Victor Recording Orchestra of 1924 – 1929, which included, at various times, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Chauncey Morehouse, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Bill Rank, Eddie Lang, Frankie Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell, Steve Brown, Joe Venuti, and arranger Robert Ginzler among others.

Jacques Collin de Plancy was the father of Victor Emile Marie Joseph Collin de Plancy ( 1853 – 1924 ) who for nearly a decade starting in 1884 served as French Minister to Korea and whose collected art works and books became part of the core of the Korean collections of the French Bibliothèque Nationale and the Musée Guimet in Paris.

File: Queen of Italy. jpg | Elena of Italy and Victoria of Spain seen riding together in an open landau during Victor Emmanuel III's state visit to Madrid on June 14, 1924.

* Victor Silvester, Jr. ( 1924 – 1999 ), clarinettist and band leader

Janco's portrait was painted by colleague Victor Brauner, in 1924.

* James Victor Broke Saumarez, 6th Baron de Saumarez ( 1924 – 1991 )

Herbert Sutcliffe sweeps Arthur Mailey during the first Ashes Test in Sydney, 1924.

Also in 1924, Herbert E. Ives of AT & T transmitted and reconstructed the first color facsimile, using color separations.

George Herbert Walker Bush ( born June 12, 1924 ) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States ( 1989 – 93 ).

George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.

* July 17 – Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral ( Compulsory Voting ) Act 1924.

It reportedly was the strongest county for Calvin Coolidge in 1924, Herbert Hoover in 1932 and Alf Landon in 1936 The Republican candidate has continued to consistently win since 1956.

They were conceived landscape architect S. Herbert Hare in 1924.

* Bluegrass musicians Smokey Mayfield ( 1924 – 2008 ), Thomas Edward " Edd " Mayfield ( 1926 – 1958 ), and Herbert E. Mayfield ( 1920 – 2008 ) grew up in Dimmitt.

In 1924, Bush became vice-president of A. Harriman & Co. His father-in-law, George Herbert Walker also worked with the company, as did E. Roland Harriman and Knight Woolley, Bush's Yale classmates and fellow Bonesmen.

They had five children: Prescott Bush, Jr. ( August 10, 1922 – June 23, 2010 ), George H. W. Bush ( b. 1924, named after Dorothy's father George Herbert Walker ), Nancy Bush ( b. 1926 ), Jonathan Bush ( b. 1931 ), and William " Bucky " Bush ( b. 1938 ).

This was introduced by Senator for Tasmania Herbert Payne of the Nationalist Party on 16 July 1924, passed by the Senate on 23 July, passed by the House of Representatives on 24 July-both times with little debate-and given Royal Assent on 31 July.

Herbert also worked closely with John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin and others in founding the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers ( ASCAP ) on February 13, 1914, becoming its vice-president and director until his death in 1924.

A healthy man throughout his life, Herbert died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 65 on 26 May 1924 shortly after his final show, The Dream Girl, began its pre-Broadway run in New Haven, Connecticut.

On February 12, 1924, Herbert was one of the featured composers at New York's Aeolian Hall, in an evening entitled An Experiment in Modern Music that included the world premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by the Paul Whiteman orchestra.

She was played by Virginia Browne Faire in Herbert Brenon's 1924 version of Peter Pan, Julia Roberts in 1991's Hook, and by Ludivine Sagnier in P. J.

Mailing out millions of postcards and simply counting the returns, the Digest correctly predicted the victories of Warren Harding in 1920, Calvin Coolidge in 1924, Herbert Hoover in 1929, and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.

On 1 April 1924, Herbert Stanley was appointed as Governor and Northern Rhodesia became an official Protectorate of the United Kingdom, with capital in Livingstone.

* Zbigniew Herbert ( 1924 – 1998 ), Polish poet, eseist and playwright, art director of the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Gorzów in 1965 / 66

In 1924, legal humorist A. P. Herbert considered the concept of the reasonable man at length in the fictional case of " Fardell v.

Jack Hobbs ( left ) and Herbert Sutcliffe walking out to bat at Sydney Cricket Ground in 1924 – 25

However, it was not on the platform of either the Stanley Bruce-led Nationalist / Country party coalition government or the Matthew Charlton-led Labor opposition to introduce this requirement ; rather, the initiative was taken by a backbench Tasmanian senator from the Nationalists, Herbert Payne, who introduced a Private Senator's Bill, the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1924, on 16 July 1924.