April 1924 in History

Events in History

Apr 1 Adolf Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor for "Beer Hall Putsch" but General Ludendorff acquitted

Apr 1 Imperial Airways forms in Britain
Apr 1 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
Apr 6 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
Apr 6 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
Apr 6 Völkische Block (Nazis) receives 17.8% of vote in Bavaria
Apr 8 South African State pass the Industrial Conciliation Act No 11: provides for job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions, prohibited registration of black trade unions
Apr 11 Socialists win Danish parliamentary elections
Apr 11 WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
Apr 12 WLS-AM in Chicago begins radio transmissions
Apr 13 Greek plebiscite for a republic
Apr 15 Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain, Belgium, 1 dead
Apr 15 WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
Apr 15 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
Apr 16 1st radio-transmission of wireless: Mattheus Passion
Apr 16 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
Apr 17 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B Mayer Co merged to form Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
Apr 18 1st crossword puzzle book published by Simon & Schuster
Apr 22 Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
Apr 23 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley, London
Apr 28 119 die in coal mine disaster at Benwood, West Virginia

Apr 1 Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
Apr 2 Denis Rooke, British engineer and CEO (British Gas), born in New Cross, London (d. 2008)
Apr 3 Canon A D Caesar, Sub Dean (HM Chapels Royal)
Apr 4 Chris Prater, English screenprinter, born in London (d. 1996)
Apr 5 Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist and sculptor, born in Enschede, Netherlands (d. 1993)
Apr 7 Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
Apr 8 Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English army officer (NATO Commander) and historian, born in Coventry, England (d. 2006)
Apr 10 Kenneth Noland, American Color Field painter, born in Asheville, North Carolina (d. 2010)
Apr 12 Julius Moormann, Dutch student and resistance fighter (WWII), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1944)
Apr 12 Peter Safar, Austrian physician (pioneered cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2003)
Apr 15 John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham, British writer and historian, born in Westminster, London (d. 2001)

Apr 16 Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Scottish Conservative politician (1959-2001), born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 2010)
Apr 16 John Harvey-Jones, English businessman and chairman of ICI (1982-87), born in Hackney, London (d. 2008)
Apr 17 Patrick Sergeant, British investor and founder (Euromoney Publications)
Apr 17 Althea Simmons, American human rights activist and chief lobbyist (NAACP), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 1990)
Apr 18 Henry Hyde, American politician (Rep-R-Illinois 1975-2007), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
Apr 18 Roy Mason [Baron Mason of Barnsley], British defense secretary and Labour MP, born in Royston, England (d. 2015)
Apr 18 Raf de Linde [Raphael van Hecke], author (Vaarwel on Gertrude), born in Evergem, Belgium
Apr 20 Paul Van Buren, American theologist (Theological Explorations), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1998)
Apr 21 Daniel Melnick, American producer, Get Smart), born in NYC, New York
Apr 23 Colin Welch, British political journalist and critic of Enid Blyton's Noddy series, born in Ickleton Abbey, Cambridgeshire (d. 1997)
Apr 24 Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2009)
Apr 28 Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (1964-91), born in Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) (d. 2021)

Apr 2 Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Danish botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions), dies at 82

Apr 14 Louis Sullivan, American architect (father of skyscrapers), dies at 67

Apr 14 Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, French prince and president of the Société de Géographie, dies at 65
Apr 24 G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)