1924 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1924 in the United Kingdom.
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[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. [1]
- 1 February - The United Kingdom recognises the Soviet Union.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 24 December - Air crash in Croydon air field - 8 dead.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Edward Victor Appleton investigates the Heaviside layer. [2]
[edit] Births
- 21 January - Benny Hill, comedian and actor (died 1992)
- 7 February - Hattie Jacques, star of the Carry On films
- 3 March - John Woodnutt, actor (d. 2006)
- 28 March - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (d. 1992)
- 30 March - Alan Davidson, author (d. 2003)
- 15 April - Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist
- 24 April - Clement Freud, writer, radio personality, and politician
- 11 May - Antony Hewish, radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- 12 May - Tony Hancock, comedian (d. 1968)
- 19 May - Sandy Wilson, composer
- 24 May - Vincent Cronin, historical writer and biographer
- 27 June - Bob Appleyard, cricketer
- 11 July - Charlie Tully, footballer (d. 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 (d. 1995)
- 4 September - Joan Aiken, writer (d. 2004)
- 22 September - Charles Keeping, illustrator (d. 1988)
- 22 September - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist
- 19 November - William Russell, actor
[edit] Deaths
- 2 January - Sabine Baring-Gould, composer and novelist (b. 1834)
- 4 May - E. Nesbit, author (b. 1858)
- 8 June/9 June - Andrew Irvine, mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1902)
- 10 June - George Mallory, mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1886)
- 31 December - Sir Samuel William Knaggs, civil servant (b. 1856)
[edit] References
- ^ a b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
