1924 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1924 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Undated 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, Conservative (until 16 January), Ramsay MacDonald, Labour (until 4 November), Stanley Baldwin, Conservative

[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] Undated

• 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 (died 2006)
• 28 March - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (died 1992)
• 30 March - Alan Davidson, author (died 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 (died 1968)
• 19 May - Sandy Wilson, composer
• 24 May - Vincent Cronin, historical writer and biographer
• 27 June - Bob Appleyard, cricketer
• 11 July - Charlie Tully, footballer (died 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 (died 1995)
• 4 September - Joan Aiken, writer (died 2004)
• 22 September - Charles Keeping, illustrator (died 1988)
• 22 September - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist
• 19 November - William Russell, actor
• 21 November - Christopher Tolkien, son and editor of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
• date unknown - Peter Halliday, actor

[edit] Deaths

• 2 January - Sabine Baring-Gould, composer and novelist (born 1834)
• 4 May - E. Nesbit, author (born 1858)
• 8 June/9 June - Andrew Irvine, mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (born 1902)
• 10 June - George Mallory, mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (born 1886)
• 31 December - Sir Samuel William Knaggs, civil servant (born 1856)

[edit] References