Month January 1924 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1924

• Day of Week 16th » Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
• Day of Week 22nd » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Party (UK) or Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• Day of Week 25th » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the France called French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• Day of Week 26th » Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1924

• 1st » Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1st » Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatorial Guinean politician, 1st List of heads of state of Equatorial Guinea or President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979)
• 2nd » Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer (d. 2009)
• 3rd » Otto Beisheim, German businessman, founded Metro AG (d. 2013)
• 3rd » André Franquin, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1997)
• 3rd » Nell Rankin, American soprano (d. 2005)
• 4th » Sebastian Kappen, Indian priest and theologian (d. 1993)
• 4th » Meta Vannas, Soviet politician (d. 2002)
• 5th » Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician (d. 2012)
• 5th » Sam Phillips, American record producer, founded Sun Records (d. 2003)
• 6th » Earl Scruggs, American banjo player (Flatt and Scruggs) (d. 2012)
• 7th » Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor
• 7th » Pablo Birger, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1966)
• 7th » Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1973)
• 8th » Benjamin Lees, American composer (d. 2010)
• 8th » Ron Moody, English actor and singer
• 9th » Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 10th » Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (d. 1996)
• 11th » Don Cherry (singer) known as Don Cherry, American singer and golfer
• 11th » Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate
• 11th » Sam B. Hall, American politician and judge (d. 1994)
• 11th » Slim Harpo, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1970)
• 12th » Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)
• 12th » Grethe Holmer, Danish actress (d. 2004)
• 12th » Chris Chase, American model, actress, and journalist (d. 2013)
• 13th » Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
• 13th » Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (d. 2011)
• 14th » Carole Cook, American actress and singer
• 14th » Guy Williams (actor) called Guy Williams, American actor (d. 1989)
• 15th » George Lowe (mountaineer) or George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer (d. 2013)
• 16th » Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
• 17th » Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist (d. 2013)
• 19th » Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
• 19th » Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
• 20th » Tekin Akmansoy, Turkish actor and director (d. 2013)
• 21st » Benny Hill, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 22nd » J. J. Johnson, American trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
• 22nd » Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood, English activist and academic
• 22nd » Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (d. 1999)
• 23rd » Frank Lautenberg, American politician (d. 2013)
• 24th » Joe Albany, American pianist (d. 1988)
• 25th » Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
• 25th » Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (d. 2003)
• 25th » Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic wrestler (d. 2014)
• 26th » Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)
• 26th » Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot politician (d. 2012)
• 26th » Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1998)
• 27th » Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
• 27th » Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (d. 2012)
• 27th » Brian Rix, English actor, producer, and academic
• 27th » Harvey Shapiro (poet) known as Harvey Shapiro, American poet and academic (d. 2013)
• 28th » Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (d. 1976)
• 28th » George Papassavas, Greek painter
• 29th » Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
• 29th » Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
• 29th » Peter Voulkos, American sculptor (d. 2002)
• 30th » Lloyd Alexander, American author (d. 2007)
• 30th » Sailor Art Thomas, American bodybuilder and wrestler (d. 2003)

Famous Deaths for January 1924

• 2nd » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 4th » Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1852)
• 9th » Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Ceylonese politician (b. 1853)
• 13th » Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)
• 20th » Ivor Crapp, Australian footballer and umpire (b. 1872)
• 21st » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 24th » Anna Bayerová, Czech physician (b. 1853)
• 24th » Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)

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