* 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 )

Shamanism | Shaman's drum depicting Tungusic creation myth | Tungus cosmology, with the World Tree at center joining underworld, earth and heaven ( based on a 1924 drawing from the original drum )

A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

In the 1924 national election, the Munich cultural journal Süddeutsche Monatshefte published a series of articles blaming the SPD and trade unions for Germany's defeat in World War I, which came out during the trial of Adolf Hitler and Ludendorff for high treason following the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE, or World Chess Federation ) was formed in Paris in 1924, but at that time did not formulate criteria on who should earn the title.

Other films of the 1920s include Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde ( 1920 ), The Phantom Carriage ( Sweden, 1920 ), The Lost World ( 1925 ), The Phantom Of The Opera ( 1925 ), Waxworks ( Germany 1924 ), and Tod Browning's ( lost ) London After Midnight ( 1927 ) with Chaney.

Through the 2011 season, the franchise has won three World Series championships ( 1924, 1987, and 1991 ), and has fielded 18 American League batting champions.

Washington's Bucky Harris scores on his home run in the fourth inning of Game 7 of the 1924 World Series.

The Senators faced John McGraw's heavily-favored New York Giants in the 1924 World Series.

The World Organisation for Animal Health is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide and was created by an international agreement as the International Office of Epizootics ( still known by its French acronym Office International des Epizooties-OIE ) on 25 January 1924.

After World War I the Laurin-Klement company began producing trucks, but in 1924, after running into problems and being hit by a fire, the company sought a partner, and was acquired by Škoda Works, an arms manufacturer which had become a multi-sector concern and the biggest industrial enterprise in Czechoslovakia.

However, World War I put an end to the plans of Olympic competition, and it was not until the winter sports week in Chamonix in 1924 — retroactively awarded Olympic status — that ice speed skating reached the Olympic programme.

They also lost in 1924, when the Washington Senators won their only World Series in their history ( prior to their move to Minnesota ).

" In 1924, ten years after the beginning of the First World War and six years into British rule, the visiting American Phelps-Stokes Commission reported: In regards to schools, the Germans have accomplished marvels.

UNBF's War Memorial Hall ( usually referred to as Memorial Hall ), originally built as a science building in 1924, honours the 35 UNB Alumni who died in World War I.

France The total includes 1, 186, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The figure for total military dead of 1, 397, 800 is from a study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1931 The total includes 71, 100 French Colonial Forces, 4, 600 foreign nationals, and 28, 600 war-related military deaths occurring from 11 / 11 / 18 to 6 / 1 / 1919 The UK War Office in 1922 estimated French losses as 1, 385, 300 dead and missing, including 58, 000 colonial soldiers The U. S. War Department in 1924 estimated 1, 357, 800 killed and died The names of the soldiers who died for France during World War I are listed on-line by the French government.

** Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor ( b. 1924 )

After the First World War, the Hashemite Sayyid Hussein bin Ali was proclaimed King of an independent Hejaz, but soon after, in 1924, he was defeated by Ibn Saud, who integrated Medina and the whole of the Hejaz into the modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

" In 1924, Debs was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Finnish Socialist Karl H. Wiik on the grounds that " Debs started to work actively for peace during World War I, mainly because he considered the war to be in the interest of capitalism.

* World War Adjusted Compensation Act, 1924 U. S. law

The złoty was reintroduced as Poland's currency by Władysław Grabski in 1924, following the hyperinflation and monetary chaos of the years after World War I.

In 2006 the BBC ran a series of programmes called The Lost World of Friese-Greene, presented by Dan Cruickshank about Claude Friese-Greene's road trip from Land's End to John o ' Groats, The Open Road, which he filmed from 1924 to 1926 using the Biocolour process.

The first successful attempt to circumnavigate the planet Earth by air occurred in 1924, flown by aviators of the U. S. Army Air Service in a quartet of Douglas World Cruiser biplanes.

* United States Army Air Service, 1924, first aerial circumnavigation, 175 days, covering, with examples of the Douglas World Cruiser biplane.