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December 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

15. Winston Churchill, writing to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, said Singapore’s defences did not need to be completed for another fifteen to twenty years: “I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.”

20. Adolf Hitler was released from Landsberg Prison, as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners, having served less than 9 months of a 5 year sentence.

24. Imperial Airways de Havilland DH34 airliner crashes soon after take-off from London’s Croydon Airport killing all eight people aboard; this leads to the first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident ever held in the United Kingdom.

26. Judy Garland made her show business debut, aged 2½, singing “Jingle Bells” at her parents’ theatre in Grand Rapids, MN.

30. American astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.

history, memes

November 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

4. 1924 United States presidential election won by Republican Calvin Coolidge

4. Died. Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)

20. Born. Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician (d. 2010)

30. Born. Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (d. 1973)

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October 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

1. Born. Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, he’s 100 today!

12-15. Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey

29. Died. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anglo-American writer (b. 1849)

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September 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

2. Born. Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya (d. 2020)

4. Born. Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)

16. Born. Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)

28. US Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe; it has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle

30. Born. Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)

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August 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

1. Born. Frank Worrell, West Indies cricketer (d. 1967)

11. Lee de Forest used his experimental Phonofilm sound-on-film process to film US President Calvin Coolidge on the White House lawn; the earliest sound film footage of an American president.

12. Born. Derek Shackleton, England cricketer (d. 2007)

12. Born. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (d. 1988)

27. American Telephone and Telegraph Company successfully transmitted a colour photograph from Chicago to New York. It took just an hour.

history, memes

July 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

2. Marconi described his new beam system of short-wave wireless transmission at the Royal Society of Arts in London. This could transmit more words per day than previously possible, and more economically, resulting in a general reduction in telegraph rates.

2. Portuguese Prime Minister Álvaro de Castro fought a sword duel with Flight Captain Ribeiro over a political dispute. Ribiero was wounded in the arm.

6. The first photograph is sent across the Atlantic by radio.

10. Denmark gains Greenland when Norway ends its claim.

12. The original trademark application for Kleenex was filed by Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

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June 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

3. Died. Franz Kafka, Austrian author (b. 1883)

5. Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to his father in Sweden

8. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen “going strong for the top” of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50pm; the two mountaineers are never seen alive again

12. Born. George HW Bush, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)

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May 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

4. Died. Edith Nesbit, British author (b. 1858)

11. Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging of companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz

12. Born. Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)

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April 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

1. Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison in Germany for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (he serves less than 9 months)

15. Born. Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist (d. 2016)

20. Born. Leslie Phillips, English actor (d. 2022)

24. Born. Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster, chef and politician (d. 2009)

28. Born. Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (d. 2021)

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March 1924

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

3. The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk

29. Died. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in United Kingdom (b. 1852)