February 1924 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Feb 1 Ramsay MacDonald's incoming Labour government formally recognizes the Soviet Union

British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald — British Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald

Feb 2 International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
Feb 3 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)

Event of Interest

Feb 7 Benito Mussolini's Italian government exchanges diplomats with USSR

Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini — Italian Dictator
Benito Mussolini

Feb 8 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
Feb 9 Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
Feb 12 George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback" premieres in NYC

Event of Interest

Feb 14 Thomas J. Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM)

Businessman Thomas J. Watson — Businessman
Thomas J. Watson

Feb 15 A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill
Feb 18 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

Event of Interest

Feb 18 US Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to Teapot Dome scandal

Lawyer and Politician Thomas J. Walsh — Lawyer and Politician
Thomas J. Walsh

Feb 24 Greek parliament proclaims republic

Event of Interest

Feb 24 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi — Pacifist and Spiritual Leader
Mahatma Gandhi

Coup d'état

Feb 26 Trial against Hitler for treason in "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich begins

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler — Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

German WWI General Erich Ludendorff — German WWI General
Erich Ludendorff

Feb 27 Belgium's Theunis government falls
Feb 28 US begins intervention in Honduras

Birthdays in History

Feb 1 H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (d. 1997)
Feb 1 Ben Weider, Quebec businessman and author
Feb 5 Robert Lynn, anarchist
Feb 6 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist & author (Road to Rome), born in Urbino, Italy (d. 1994)
Feb 6 Jin Yong [Louis Cha Leung-yung], Chinese Wuxia novelist, born in Haining, China (d. 2018)
Feb 7 Cathy Long, (Rep-D-LA, 1985-86)
Feb 11 Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
Feb 12 Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam)
Feb 13 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician
Feb 14 Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, born in Westminster, London, England (d. 2017)
Feb 16 James Swaffield, director-general (Swaffield & Clerk to the GLC)
Feb 16 Peter Webster, British High Court Judge
Feb 17 Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence agent (Operation Long Jump), born in Rostov-on-Don (d. 2012)
Feb 18 Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999)
Feb 18 Louis Laberge, Quebec labour union leader (d. 2002)
Feb 18 Evald Ilyenkov, Soviet philosopher (Dialectical Logic), born in Smolensk, Soviet Union (d. 1979)
Feb 20 Gloria Vanderbilt, American fashion designer, artist, heiress and socialite, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2019)

Robert Mugabe

Feb 21 Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-87) and 1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017), born in Harare, Zimbabwe (d. 2019)

Feb 24 William Pillar, British admiral
Feb 25 Peg Ridge, peace campaigner
Feb 26 Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89), born in Unnan, Japan (d. 2000)
Feb 27 Magnus MacDonald Shearer, former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
Feb 28 Robert A Roe, American politician (Rep-D-NJ, 1969-93), born in Wayne, New Jersey (d. 2014)
Feb 29 David Beattie, New Zealand judge, Governor-General of NZ (1980-85), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2001)
Feb 29 Otto Hutter, British physiologist, born in Vienna, Austria