In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

* Order of the Red Banner, three times ( 1924, 1942 and 1944 )

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

On the famous race on 11 July 1957 when the " three Olavis " ( Salsola, Salonen and Vuorisalo ) broke the world record for the 1, 500 m, Matti Nurmi finished a distant ninth with his personal best, 2. 2 seconds slower than his father's world record from 1924.

While in the training camp of the Millers camp for the springtime, Williams met Rogers Hornsby, who had hit over. 400 three times, including a. 424 average in 1924, who was a coach for the Millers for the spring.

Between 1924 and 1967, 23 chapters of Phrateres were installed in universities across North America, including three other chapters in Canadian universities.

* November 25 – The Mirabal Sisters, three Dominican revolutionaries ( b. 1924, 1926, 1935 )

Ellington made eight records in 1924, receiving composing credit on three including Choo Choo.

Sharon Tate was born in Dallas, Texas, the eldest of three daughters, to Colonel Paul James Tate ( 1922 – 2005 ), a United States Army officer, and his wife, Doris Gwendolyn ( née Willett ; January 16, 1924 – July 10, 1992 ).

Sixteen years after the formation of the club and a mere three years after they were promoted to the highest level of Dutch football Feijenoord earned their first honours by capturing the national league championship in 1924.

Giuseppe had three brothers and six sisters: Giuseppe Sarto, 1834 ( died after six days ); Angelo Sarto, 1837 – 1916 ; Teresa Parolin-Sarto, 1839 – 1920 ; Rosa Sarto, 1841 – 1913 ; Antonia Dei Bei-Sarto, 1843 – 1917 ; Maria Sarto, 1846 – 1930 ; Lucia Boschin-Sarto, 1848 – 1924 ; Anna Sarto, 1850 – 1926 ; Pietro Sarto, 1852 ( died after six months ).

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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.

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

In 1924, following the victory of the Red Army, a committee was established to modernize the rifle, which had by then been in service for over three decades.

It was widened by 13 feet, using granite corbels ; but subsequent surveys showed that the bridge was sinking an inch ( about 2. 5 cm ) every eight years ; and by 1924, the east side had sunk some three to four inches ( about 9 cm ) lower than the west side.

Signal Hill, completely surrounded by the city of Long Beach, was incorporated on April 22, 1924, roughly three years after oil was discovered there.

In the spring of 1924, Joseph Joscak, editor of the New Yorsky Dennik, a daily Czechoslovak newspaper, began writing a column in which he extolled the beauty and pleasing climate of Florida, “ where it is possible to produce as many as three crops a year .” He wanted to attract the attention of his readers to a better way of life, for most of them were employed in hard, unattractive jobs in coal mines, steel mills, and other factories of the industrial North.

His hotel, named the Junction House, was the first of three hotels to occupy the site, which now is home to the Coolidge Hotel, built in 1924.

Just three years after the fire, in 1892, James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway had arrived in the newly created township of Hillyard ( annexed by Spokane in 1924 )— the chosen site for Hill's rail yards.

Simson in 1924 offered a Paul Henze-designed DOHC 2 liter four, the Simson Supra Type S, in a long-wheelbase 120 km / h ( 60 mph ) tourer and 115 km / h ( 71 mph ) twin-carburettor sporter ; only thirty were sold, against around three hundred of the SOHC model and 750 of the pushrod-six Type R. Duerkopp's Zoller-blown two liter in 1924, as well.

Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé three times, in 1924, in 1926, and finally in 1942.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

Between 1924 and 1967, 23 chapters of Phrateres were installed in universities across North America.

Three excerpts from Wozzeck were performed in 1924, and this brought Berg his first public success.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

* 1924: Fred Beck claimed that he and four other miners were attacked one night in July 1924, by several " apemen " throwing rocks at their cabin in an area later called Ape Canyon, Washington.

In 1924 Edwin Hubble's measurement of the great distance to the nearest spiral nebulae showed that these systems were indeed other galaxies.

Beechcraft was not Beech's first company, as he had previously formed Travel Air in 1924 and the design numbers used at Beechcraft followed the sequence started at Travel Air, and were then continued at Curtiss-Wright, after Travel Air had been absorbed into the much larger company in 1929.

The essential concepts of the interpretation were devised by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and others in the years 1924 – 27.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

This is in deep contrast to the Lenin era ( 1917 – 1924 ), when six Congresses were held, five conferences and 69 meetings of the Central Committee.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

After the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, which greatly restricted immigration and allowed processing at overseas embassies, the only immigrants to pass through the station were displaced persons or war refugees.

Hourly time signals from Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast on 5 February 1924, rendering the time ball at the observatory obsolete in the process.

He visited the United States in 1924, and gave a series of illustrated lectures in New York City and other cities in the United States that were attended by very large and enthusiastic audiences, sparking Egyptomania in America.

The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.

New designs were still developed in the 20th century, including the chromatic harmonica, first made by Hohner in 1924, the bass harmonica, and the chord harmonica.

The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 ; the first Winter Olympics were in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

In 1924, he led the repression of a Georgian nationalist uprising, after which up to 10, 000 people were executed.

In 1924, the Malden ruins were examined by an archaeologist from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Kenneth Emory, who concluded that they were the creation of a small Polynesian population which had resided there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier.