In 1947 the British Royal Family ( King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret ) visited and were welcomed in Eshowe by King Cyprian.

* 23 March-Ex-regent Mshiyeni, uncle of Zulu King Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon, warns the Zulu people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign.

* 1992 – Albert King, American blues musician ( b. 1924 )

A pioneering work of the genre was The King of Elfland's Daughter, a 1924 novel by Lord Dunsany.

* Louis V. King On The Direct Numerical Calculation Of Elliptic Functions And Integrals ( Cambridge University Press, 1924 )

King George II was asked to leave the country, and on 25 March 1924, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaimed the Second Hellenic Republic, ratified by plebiscite a month later.

* 1924 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager ( d. 2010 )

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.

On 8 October 1924, the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald suffered defeat in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence, forcing MacDonald to go to the King to seek a dissolution of Parliament and new elections.

The King failed to move against the Mussolini regime's abuses of power ( including, as early as 1924, the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti and other opposition MPs ) and remained silent during the winter of 1925 – 26 when Mussolini dropped all pretense of democracy.

Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, representing the government and Albert I, King of Belgium, presented the monument to Mayor John F. Hylan, for the City of New York May 18, 1924.

Buchan's name had been earlier put forward by Mackenzie King to George V as a candidate for the governor generalcy: Buchan and his wife had been guests of Mackenzie King's at his estate, Kingsmere, in 1924, and Mackenzie King, who at that time was prime minister, was impressed with Buchan, stating, " I know no man I would rather have as a friend, a beautiful, noble soul, kindly & generous in thought & word & act, informed as few men in this world have ever been, modest, humble, true, man after God's own heart.

Curtis married Anna Elizabeth Baird ( 1860 – 1924 ), with whom he had three children: Permelia Jeannette Curtis, Henry " Harry " King Curtis and Leona Virginia Curtis.

The first section of the main body of the cathedral was complete by 1924, and on 19 July 1924, the 20th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary, and bishops and archbishops from round the globe.

In 1924, King George VI recommended that the old custom of identifying villages with carved or painted name signs could be revived.

George II (, Geórgios Βʹ, Vasiléfs ton Ellínon ; 20 July 1890 – 1 April 1947 ) reigned as King of Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947.

To ensure that the race would finish in front of the King, the finish line was moved by British officials who, in response to shot putter and American flag carrier Ralph Rose's refusal to dip the American flag before the Royal Box during the opening ceremony, “ felt compelled to restore the importance of the monarchy .” As a result of these changes, the marathon covered a distance of 26 miles 385 yards ( 42. 195 km ), which became the standard length starting with the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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.

* In the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz ( later merged into present-day Saudi Arabia ), the sole Vizier was ( 10 June 1916-3 October 1924 ) the future second king Ali ibn Hussein al-Hashimi, under his father Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi ( the first to assume the title Malik, i. e. King, instead of Grand Sharif ), maintained after the assumption of the Caliphal style ( only 11 March 1924-3 October 1924 )

The Jane Gifford was gifted to the Waiuku Historical Society by Captain Bert Subritzky and his wife Moana in 1985, where it was re-masted and re-rigged to its original splendor, while the Owhiti, which had starred in the 1983 movie Savage Islands ( starring Tommy Lee Jones and amongst others Kiwi icon and singer Prince Tui Teka as King Ponapa ), was sold to Captain Dave Skyme in the late 1980s and fully restored to its 1924 sea worthiness.

:* 2nd Battalion King ’ s Shropshire LI 1924 – 1927

A strong critic of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Azaña published an energetic manifesto against the dictator and King Alfonso XIII in 1924.

Thereafter, members of the Royal Family would stay periodically at Rideau Hall, if not as governor general then as guests of the Crown, so that the palace played host to Prince Leopold ( later also Duke of Albany ) in 1880 ; Prince George ( later King George V ) in 1882, 1901, and 1908 ; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Connaught ( later also the Duke and Duchess of Strathearn ), in 1890 and as the viceregal couple from 1906 to 1912 ; Princess Louise in 1900 ; Princess Patricia with her parents from 1906 to 1912 ; Prince Albert ( later King George VI ) in 1910 and 1913 ; Edward, Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VIII ), in 1919, 1923, 1924, and 1927 ; Prince George ( later also Duke of Kent ) in 1926 and 1927 ; and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1929.

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

* 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.

* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.

* 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) of Siam ( modern day Thailand ) founded the Chakri dynasty.

* 1948 – Perry King, American actor

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.

* 1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

* 586 BC – Solomon's Temple is totally destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

* 1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.

* 1983 – Stephen James King, Australian actor

* 1205 – King Amalric II of Jerusalem ( b. 1145 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

Grimwald, King of the Lombards ( 662 – 671 ), and his young son and successor Garibald ( 671 ), were the last Arian kings in Europe.

* 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( King Crimson and Bad Company ) ( d. 2006 )

* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

* 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

* 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.