1924 in the United States
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Events from the year 1924 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts)
- Vice President: vacant
- Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
- Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts) (until November 9), vacant (starting November 9)
- Congress: 68th
Events
January–March
- February 7 – Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
- February 12 – Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.
- February 14 – IBM is founded in New York State.
- February 16–February 26 – Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.
- February 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
- March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.
April–June
- April 16 – American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles, California.
- May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
- May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks, in a thrill killing.
- June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.
- June 23 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.
- June 24-July 9 – The 1924 Democratic National Convention takes a record 103 ballots, to nominate John Davis for President.
October–December
- October 10 – The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
- The Washington Senators defeat the New York Giants (baseball), 4 games to 3.
- November 4
- Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
- U.S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr.
- November 19 – In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas H. Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
- November 27 – In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- December 1 – George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) premiere in New York City.
Undated
- Alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York City.
- U.S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns.
- The earth inductor compass is developed by Morris Titterington at the Pioneer Instrument Company in Brooklyn, New York.
Ongoing
- Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
- U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
- Prohibition (1919–1933)
- Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)
Births
January
- January 1 – Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist
- January 4
- Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1989)
- Charles Thone, American politician (d. 2018)
- January 5 – Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (d. 2013)
- January 6 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)
- January 7 – Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1973)
- January 8 – James Clinkscales Hill, American jurist (d. 2017)
- January 10
- Earl Bakken, American engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. 2018)
- Max Roach, African-American percussionist, drummer and composer (d. 2007)
- January 11
- Don Cherry, American pop singer (d. 2018)
- Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
- Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
- January 12 – Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane), American model, film actress, writer and journalist (d. 2013)
- January 14 – Carole Cook, American actress and singer
- January 19 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and television director (d. 1985)
- January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, American politician (d. 2013)
- January 25
- Lou Groza, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
- Speedy West, American musician (d. 2003)
- January 26 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
- January 28 – Betty Tucker, American female baseball player (d. 2012)
- January 30
- Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
- Dorothy Malone, American actress (d. 2018)
February
- February 1 – Richard Hooker, American writer and surgeon (d. 1997)
- February 4 – Dorothy Harrell, American female professional baseball player (d. 2011)
- February 7 – Catherine Small Long, American politician
- February 8 – Joe Black, African-American baseball player (d. 2002)
- February 10 – Randy Van Horne, American singer and musician (d. 2007)
- February 11 – Budge Patty, American tennis player
- February 14 – Gabe Pressman, American journalist (d. 2017)
- February 15 – Toni Arden, American singer (d. 2012)
- February 17 – Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008)
- February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
- February 20
- Donald M. Fraser, American politician (d. 2019)
- Gerson Goldhaber, German-American physicist and astrophysicist (d. 2010)
- Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite, artist and fashion designer (d. 2019)
- February 21 – William Hathaway, American politician and lawyer (d. 2013)
- February 28
- Bettye Ackerman, American actress (d. 2006)
- Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (d. 2019)
- February 29 – Al Rosen, American baseball player (d. 2015)
March
- March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)
- March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell, American political consultant, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
- March 6
- Ed Mierkowicz, American baseball player (d. 2017)
- William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist
- March 9
- George Haines, American swimmer and coach (d. 2006)
- William Hamilton, American theologian (d. 2012)
- Ben Schadler, American basketball player (d. 2015)
- March 12 – Helen Parrish, American actress (d. 1959)
- March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings, African-American civil rights leader (d. 2017)
- March 20 – Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
- March 22
- Al Neuharth, American businessman and journalist (d. 2013)
- Bill Wendell, American TV announcer (d. 1999)
- Lionel Wilson, American voice actor (d. 2005)
- March 23 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American typist, commercial artist, and inventor (d. 1980)
- March 24
- Lois Andrews, American actress (d. 1968)
- Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
- March 25
- Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (d. 2011)
- Julia Perry, African-American composer (d. 1979)
- March 27 – Sarah Vaughan, African-American jazz singer (d. 1990)
- March 28 – Byrd Baylor, American novelist, essayist and author
- March 29 – Jimmy Work, American singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
- March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley, American actress (d. 2019)
April
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- April 1 – Brendan Byrne, American politician, statesman, and prosecutor (d. 2018)
- April 2 – Delwin Jones, American politician (d. 2018)
- April 3 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
- April 4
- Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. 1972)
- Noreen Nash, American actress
- April 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (d. 1999)
- April 8 – Bob Mann, American football player (d. 2006)
- April 9 – Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot (d. 1956)
- April 13
- Jack Chick, American fundamentalist Christian illustrator and publisher (d. 2016)
- Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (d. 2019)
- April 16
- Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994)
- Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976)
- April 18
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues musician (d. 2005)
- Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
- April 23
- Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and scout (d. 2019)
- Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
- April 28 – Emily W. Sunstein, American campaigner, political activist and biographer (d. 2007)
May
- May 1
- Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (d. 1995)
- Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic
- Big Maybelle, American R&B singer (d. 1972)
- May 2 – Ladislava Bakanic, American gymnast
- May 3 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician
- May 6 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006)
- May 11 – Ninfa Laurenzo, American businessman, founder of Ninfa's (d. 2001)
- May 16 – Frank Mankiewicz, American journalist, presidential campaign press secretary (d. 2014)
- May 18
- Jack Barlow, American country music singer (d. 2011)
- Priscilla Pointer, American actress
- Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster (d. 2019)
- May 21 – Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (d. 1999)[1]
- May 24 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier, painter
- May 29 – Lavonne "Pepper" Paire Davis, American female baseball player (d. 2013)
- May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator (d. 1985)
June
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- June 1 – William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
- June 3
- Bernard Glasser, American film producer, director (d. 2014)
- Herk Harvey, American film director (d. 1996)
- Jimmy Rogers, American musician (d. 1997)
- June 4 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
- June 6
- Robert Abernathy, American science fiction author (d. 1990)
- W. Marvin Watson, American presidential advisor, Postmaster General (d. 2017)
- June 8
- Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
- Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. 2006)
- David Pines, American physicist (d. 2018)
- June 12 – George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)
- June 20 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist, record producer (d. 2001)
- June 22 – John C. Whitcomb, American theologian
- June 23
- Frank Bolle, American comic strip artist, comic book artist and illustrator
- June Brooks, American businesswoman (d. 2010)
- June 24
- Leonard Everett Fisher, American artist known best for children's books
- Yoshito Takamine, American politician (d. 2015)
- June 25
- Martin J. Klein, American historian and physicist (d. 2009)
- Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. 2011)
- June 27
- Charles Norman Shay, American Penobscot tribal elder, writer and decorated veteran of both World War II and the Korean War
- Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (d. 2010)
- June 26
- Richard Bull, American actor (d. 2014)
- James W. McCord Jr., American CIA officer (d. 2017)
- June 29
- Philip H. Hoff, American politician (d. 2018)
- Ezra Laderman, American composer (d. 2015)
July
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- July 1
- Ralph Parr, American double-flying ace (d. 2012)
- Curtis W. Harris, American minister, civil rights activist and Virginia politician (d. 2017)
- Richard Longaker, American political scientist (d. 2018)
- July 2 – Charley Winner, American football player
- July 4 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
- July 6
- Ernest Graves Jr., United States Army officer (d. 2019)
- Robert Michael White, American military aircraft test pilot, fighter pilot, electrical engineer and major general (d. 2010)
- July 7 – Sam Cathcart, American football halfback, defensive back (d. 2015)
- July 8 – Charles C. Droz, American politician
- July 10 – Gloria Stroock, American actress
- July 11
- F. James Rutherford, American science professor
- Oscar Wyatt, American businessman, self-made millionaire
- Al Federoff, American professional baseball infielder, manager (d. 2011)
- July 12 – Shirley Neil Pettis, American politician (d. 2016)
- July 13 – Johnny Gilbert, American game show announcer
- July 14
- Val Avery, American character actor (d. 2010)
- Warren Giese, American football player, coach and politician (d. 2013)
- July 15 – Jeremiah Denton, American politician (d. 2014)
- July 16
- James L. Greenfield, American administrator
- Bess Myerson, American politician, model and television actress (d. 2014)
- July 18 – Will D. Campbell, American minister, author and activist (d. 2013)
- July 19
- Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
- Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (d. 2019)
- Arthur Rankin Jr., American film director, producer and co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions (d. 2014)
- July 20 – Lola Albright, American singer, actress (d. 2017)
- July 21 – Don Knotts, American comedic actor (d. 2006)
- July 22 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
- July 23 – Avern Cohn, American judge
- July 24 – Paul Meier, American statistician (d. 2011)
- July 25 – Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
- July 28
- Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (d. 2006)
- C. T. Vivian, American civil rights activist, minister and author
- July 29
- Lillian Faralla, American female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
- Robert Horton, American actor, singer (d. 2016)
- July 30 – William H. Gass, American novelist (d. 2017)
August
- August 1 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
- August 2
- James Baldwin, African-American author and civil rights activist (d. 1987)
- Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005)
- Carroll O'Connor, American actor, producer and director (d. 2001)
- August 3 – Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003)
- August 6 – Ella Jenkins, American folk singer of children's music
- August 9 – Marta Becket, American dancer (d. 2017)
- August 10 – Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014)
- August 15 – Phyllis Schlafly, American activist (d. 2016)
- August 17
- Evan S. Connell, Jr., American fiction writer and poet (d. 2013)
- Charles Simmons, American author (d. 2017)
- August 18 – Frank Logue, 25th mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)
- August 20 – Frank Joseph Guarini, American politician
- August 23
- Elaine Sturtevant, American artist (d. 2014)
- Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 24 – Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. 2008)
- August 26 – Barbara Staff, American political activist (d. 2019)
- August 29
- Clyde Scott, American athlete (d. 2018)
- Dinah Washington, African-American singer, pianist (d. 1963)
- August 31
- Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian (d. 2003)
- Thomas J. Hudner Jr., American naval aviator (d. 2017)
September
- September 1 – Diana Decker, American-English actress and singer (d. 2019)
- September 2 – Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant (d. 2015)
- September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (d. 2014)
- September 5
- Paul Dietzel, American college football coach (d. 2013)
- Roy Andrew Miller, American linguist (d. 2014)
- September 6
- John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018)
- Dale E. Wolf, American businessman, politician
- September 7 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (d. 2012)
- September 8 – Wendell H. Ford, American politician (d. 2015)
- September 9
- Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
- Sylvia Miles, American actress (d. 2019)
- Russell M. Nelson, American heart surgeon and religious leader
- September 11
- Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer and politician (d. 2018)
- Tom Landry, American football player, coach (d. 2000)
- September 12 – Howard C. Nielson, American politician
- September 13 – Scott Brady, American actor (d. 1985)
- September 14 – Jerry Coleman, American baseball player, manager, broadcaster, and Marine aviator (d. 2014)
- September 15 – Bobby Short, American entertainer (d. 2005)
- September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)
- September 18 – Alma W. Byrd, American politician (d. 2017)
- September 20
- Gogi Grant, American singer (d. 2016)
- Helen Grayco, American singer, actress
- September 22
- J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician
- Gerald Schoenfeld, American chairman (d. 2008)
- September 28 – Merwin Coad, American politician
- September 30
- Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
- Georgiana Young, American actress (d. 2007)
October
- October 1
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
- William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 2005)
- Roger Williams, American pianist (d. 2011)
- October 2 – Ruby Stephens, American female baseball player (d. 1996)
- October 3 – Harvey Kurtzman, American editor, cartoonist and creator of Mad (d. 1993)
- October 5 – Bill Dana, American comedian, actor, screenwriter (d. 2017)
- October 7 – Joyce Reynolds, American actress
- October 10
- Buddy MacMaster, American artist (d. 2014)
- David Shepherd, American producer, director and actor (d. 2018)
- Ed Wood, American filmmaker, actor, writer, producer and director (d. 1978)
- October 11 – Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete (d. 2015)
- October 13 – Terry Gibbs, American vibraphone player and bandleader
- October 14 – Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
- October 15
- Warren Miller, American ski and snowboarding filmmaker (d. 2018)
- Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (d. 2019)
- Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
- October 17 – Fredd Wayne, American actor (d. 2018)
- October 18 – Arthur J. Jackson, American military officer (d. 2017)
- October 21 – Joyce Randolph, American actress
- October 24 – Earl Palmer, American R&B Drummer (d. 2008)
- October 25
- Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
- Weston E. Vivian, American politician
- October 27 – Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. 2015)
November
- November 6
- Harlon Block, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1945)
- Ted Hartley, American fighter pilot, actor and film producer
- November 10 – Russell Johnson, American actor (d. 2014)
- November 11 – Leonard D. Wexler, American judge (d. 2018)
- November 13 – Edward F. Welch, Jr., American admiral (d. 2008)
- November 16 – Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founder of OXO (d. 2013)
- November 19 – J. D. Sumner, American gospel singer (d. 1998)
- November 20 – Mark Miller, American actor
- November 21 – Joseph Campanella, American actor (d. 2018)
- November 22
- Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
- Robert M. Young, American film director and producer
- November 24
- James M. Burns, American attorney and judge (d. 2001)
- Joanne Winter, American female professional baseball pitcher, LPGA player (d. 1996)
- November 25 – Paul Desmond, American jazz alto saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
- November 28 – Calvin J. Spann, African-American Tuskegee Airman, fighter pilot (d. 2015)
- November 30
- Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)
- Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (d. 1973)
December
- December 2 – Alexander Haig, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2010)
- December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect (d. 2017)
- December 6 – Wally Cox, American television, motion picture actor (d. 1973)
- December 9 – Frank Sturgis, one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the Presidency of Richard Nixon (d. 1993)
- December 12 – Ed Koch, American politician (d. 2013)
- December 13
- Robert Coogan, American actor (d. 1978)
- Maria Riva, American actress
- December 17 – Margaret Wigiser, American female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
- December 19 – Cicely Tyson, American actress
- December 23 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player (d. 2013)
- December 25 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (The Twilight Zone) (d. 1975)
- December 26 – Frank Broyles, American college football coach, athletic director (d. 2017)
- December 27
- James A. McClure, American politician (d. 2011)
- Frank North, American football coach (d. 2017)
- December 31
- Taylor Mead, American actor (d. 2013)
- Robert Ravenstahl, American politician (d. 2015)
- Frank J. Kelley, 50th Michigan Attorney General
- J. Donald Monan, American academic administrator (d. 2017)
Deaths
- January 4 – John Peters, baseball shortstop (born 1850)
- January 12 – William V. Allen, U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1893 to 1899. (born 1847)
- January 13 – Albert Abrams, quack doctor (born 1863)
- January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt, pediatrician (born 1855)
- February 1 – Maurice Prendergast, painter (born 1858)
- February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and historian (born 1856)
- February 16 – John William Kendrick, railroad executive (born 1853)
- February 17 – Henry Bacon, Beaux-Arts architect of the Lincoln Memorial (born 1866)
- March 9 – Daniel Ridgway Knight, painter (born 1839)
- March 13 – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, African American civil rights campaigner and publisher (born 1842)
- April 1 – Frank Capone, gangster, shot by police (born 1895)
- April 7 – Marcus A. Smith, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 (born 1851)
- April 19 – Paul Boyton, extreme water sports pioneer (born 1848 in Ireland)
- April 14 – Louis Sullivan, architect, "father of skyscrapers" (born 1856)
- April 18 – Frank X. Leyendecker, illustrator (born 1877)
- April 20 – Caroline Ingalls (b. Caroline Lake Quiner), pioneer, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1839)
- April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, neo-gothic architect (born 1869)
- April 24 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (born 1844)
- April 27 – Maecenas Eason Benton, U.S. Representative from Missouri (born 1848)
- May 5 – Kate Claxton, stage actress (born 1848)
- May 10 – George Kennan, explorer (born 1845)
- May 11 – Moses Fleetwood Walker, baseball pitcher and Black nationalist (born 1856)
- May 31 – Charles Stockton, admiral (born 1845)
- July 6 – Black Benny (Williams), bass drummer (born. c.1890)
- July 14 – Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector and philanthropist (born 1840)
- July 23 – Frank Frost Abbott, classical scholar (born 1860)
- August 7 – John Edward Bruce ("Bruce Grit"), African American slave and historian (born 1856)
- August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville, editor and writer (born 1858)
- September 1 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (born 1840)
- September 15 – Frank Chance, baseball player (born 1877)
- September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, stage actress (born 1847)
- October 25 – Laura Jean Libbey, novelist (born 1862)
- October 27 – Percy Haughton, baseball player and coach (born 1876)
- October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's novelist (born 1849 in the United Kingdom)
- November 3 – Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (born 1822)
- November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1893 to 1924 (born 1850)
- November 10 – Dean O'Banion, gangster, killed (born 1892)
- November 19 – Thomas H. Ince, silent film producer, "father of the Western" (born 1882)
- November 21 – Florence Harding, née Kling, First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as wife of Warren G. Harding, 29th President (born 1860)
- December 6 – Gene Stratton Porter, novelist and naturalist (born 1863)
- December 13 – Samuel Gompers, labor leader (born 1850)
- December 15 – William Herbert Carruth, linguist and poet (born 1859)
References
- "Obituary: Peggy Cass". The Independent. 13 March 1999. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
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