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Events from the year 1924 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, Conservative (until 16 January), Ramsay MacDonald, Labour (until 4 November), Stanley Baldwin, Conservative

[edit] Events

10 January - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel — forty three dead.
22 January - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government following Stanley Baldwin's resignation.^[1]
25 January–4 February - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France and win 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.
February - Baldwin establishes the Conservative Consultative Committee, the first organised Shadow Cabinet.^[2]
1 February - The United Kingdom recognises the Soviet Union.^[3]
5 February - GMT: Hourly time signals from Royal Greenwich Observatory are broadcasted for the first time.^[1]
28 March - First BBC broadcast from Plymouth (station 5PY).
23 April - First broadcast by King George V, opening the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium.
26 April - Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London but fails to convince British War Office.
4 May–27 July - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and win 9 gold, 13 silver and 12 bronze medals.
8 June - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers were never seen alive again.
11 July - Eric Liddell wins 400m gold at the Paris Olympics in a new world record time of 47.6 seconds.
30 August - Britain accepts the Dawes Plan for receiving German war reparations.^[2]
14 September - First BBC broadcast from Belfast (station 2BE).
24 October - Foreign Office publishes Zinoviev Letter.
25 October - British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next two and half years.
29 October - The general election is won by the Conservative Party under Stanley Baldwin.^[3]
2 November - The Sunday Express becomes the first newspaper to publish a crossword.^[1]
24 December - Air crash in Croydon air field - 8 dead.

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Edward Victor Appleton investigates the Heaviside layer.^[4]

[edit] Publications

Agatha Christie's novel The Man in the Brown Suit.
E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India.
A. A. Milne's poem collection When We Were Very Young.
Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane.

[edit] Births

8 January - Ron Moody, actor
21 January - Benny Hill, comedian and actor (died 1992)
7 February - Hattie Jacques, star of the Carry On films (died 1980)
3 March - John Woodnutt, actor (died 2006)
28 March - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (died 1992)
30 March - Alan Davidson, author (died 2003)
15 April - Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist
24 April - Clement Freud, writer, radio personality and politician (died 2009)
11 May
- Antony Hewish, radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Jackie Milburn, footballer (died 1988)
12 May - Tony Hancock, comedian (died 1968)
19 May - Sandy Wilson, composer
24 May - Vincent Cronin, historical writer and biographer
27 June - Bob Appleyard, cricketer
11 July - Charlie Tully, footballer (died 1971)
14 July - James W. Black, pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
7 August - Kenneth Kendall, newsreader and presenter
12 August - Derek Shackleton, cricketer
15 August - Robert Bolt, writer (died 1995)
4 September - Joan Aiken, writer (died 2004)
22 September - Charles Keeping, illustrator (died 1988)
22 September - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist
19 November - William Russell, actor
21 November - Christopher Tolkien, son and editor of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
date unknown - Peter Halliday, actor

[edit] Deaths

2 January - Sabine Baring-Gould, composer and novelist (born 1834)
21 April - Marie Corelli, novelist (born 1855)
4 May - E. Nesbit, author (born 1858)
8 June/9 June - Andrew Irvine, mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (born 1902)
10 June - George Mallory, mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (born 1886)
3 August - Joseph Conrad, novelist (born 1857, Poland)
27 August - William Bayliss, physiologist (born 1860)
29 October - Frances Hodgson Burnett, author (born 1849)
31 December - Samuel William Knaggs, civil servant (born 1856)

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 364–365. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ ^a ^b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 495–497. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.

[edit] See also

[Pocket_On_This_Day-0] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.

[CBH-1] Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 364–365. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[Cassell.27s_Chronology-2] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 495–497. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[3] The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.

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