What Happened In May 1924 In History

Historical Events for May, 1924

• 8th » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
• 21st » University of Chicago students Leopold and Loeb or Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
• 31st » The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Beijing government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1924

• 1st » Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (d. 1995)
• 1st » Big Maybelle, American singer and pianist (d. 1972)
• 1st » Karel Kachyňa, Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1st » Terry Southern, American author and screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 2nd » Jamal Abro, Pakistani author (d. 2004)
• 2nd » Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor and singer
• 2nd » Hugh Cortazzi, English businessman and diplomat, List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Japan called British Ambassador to Japan
• 3rd » Yehuda Amichai, German-Israeli poet (d. 2000)
• 3rd » Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver, founded Tyrrell Racing (d. 2001)
• 6th » Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 2014)
• 6th » Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (d. 2006)
• 6th » Denny Wright, English guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1992)
• 7th » Albert Band, French-American director and producer (d. 2002)
• 8th » S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan academic (d. 1989)
• 8th » A. J. Watson, American mechanic
• 9th » Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)
• 11th » Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist
• 11th » Helen Filarski, American baseball player (d. 2014)
• 11th » Antony Hewish, English astronomer, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate
• 12th » Maxine Cooper, American actress (d. 2009)
• 12th » Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician
• 12th » Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
• 13th » Theodore Mann, American director and producer (d. 2012)
• 13th » Harry Schwarz, German-South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 13th South African Ambassador to the United States (d. 2010)
• 13th » Conrad Swan, Canadian academic
• 15th » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist (d. 1971)
• 17th » Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs, English businessman and politician
• 18th » Priscilla Pointer, American actress
• 18th » Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster
• 19th » Sandy Wilson, English composer and songwriter
• 20th » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (d. 1976)
• 21st » Peggy Cass, American actress (d. 1999)
• 22nd » Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor
• 23rd » Karlheinz Deschner, German author and activist (d. 2014)
• 23rd » Clyde King, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2010)
• 24th » Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player (d. 1995)
• 25th » István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
• 27th » Ernest Ingenito, American murderer (d. 1995)
• 27th » Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
• 27th » John Sumner (director) named John Sumner, English-Australian director, founded the Melbourne Theatre Company (d. 2013)
• 28th » Edward du Cann, English politician
• 28th » Paul Hébert, Canadian actor
• 29th » Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator (d. 1999)
• 29th » Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 29th » Pepper Paire, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 30th » Marv Diemer, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
• 30th » Armando Peraza, Cuban-American drummer (Santana (band) or Santana) (d. 2014)

Famous Deaths for May 1924

• 4th » E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
• 5th » A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853)
• 7th » Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897)
• 25th » Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
• 26th » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)

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