November 1924

November 1, 1924 (Saturday)

• Gerardo Machado was elected president of Cuba under the Liberal-Popular Coalition banner, defeating former president Mario García Menocal. The coalition also won 31 of the 53 seats in the Cuban House of Representatives and 11 of the 12 seats in the Senate.
• Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi II invaded the Emirate of Sharjah and led the overthrow of its ruler, Khalid bin Ahmad Al Qasimi, who had been the emir since 1914. Sharjah was one of the Trucial States under British protectorate status at the time and is now one of the United Arab Emirates.
• Britain's Royal Air Force introduced its Meteorological Flight service to take regular readings of the weather.
• Irish independence activist Éamon de Valera was sentenced to a month in prison for entering Ulster, in Northern Ireland, illegally.
• Club Sport Colombia was founded in Paraguay.
• Born:
• *Süleyman Demirel, President of Turkey 1993 to 2000; Prime Minister of Turkey five times between 1965 and 1993; in
• *Morteza Ahmadi, Iranian actor; in Tehran
• Died:
• *Bill Tilghman, 70, American lawman and gunfighter, was shot and killed in Cromwell, Oklahoma, while trying to disarm a drunken U.S. prohibition agent, Wiley Lynn.
• *John Hopkin Ashley, 36, American outlaw and bank robber, was killed in an ambush in Roseland, Florida by Palm Beach County Sheriff George B. Baker. After attempting to shoot Baker, Ashley and three of his partners were killed in a shootout.

  November 2, 1924 (Sunday)

• Huang Fu was named as the acting president of the Republic of China following the Beijing Coup, at the request of General Feng Yuxiang. President Huang declared the presidency of Cao Kun to be illegal.
• Ten passengers on a street car in Chicago were killed and 31 others injured when a freight train hit a street car after midnight at the crossing of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad at the intersection of North Avenue and Kingsbury Street. Witnesses said that the freight locomotive had no lights on as it reached the crossing.
• The first newspaper crossword in the United Kingdom was published as a feature of the Sunday Express.
• Uruguay and Argentina played to a scoreless draw in the South American Championship of soccer football. Uruguay finished in first place with a record of 2-1-0 compared to Argentina's 1-2-0, to win Uruguay's fifth Copa América.
• Born:
• *Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach as well as a Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Canada men's national ice hockey team in 1964, and inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame; in Waterloo, Ontario
• *Earl J. Chronister Jr., American sport shooter who held the world record for 20 years for accuracy at 1,000 yards; in Dallastown, Pennsylvania

  November 3, 1924 (Monday)

• In the UK, a railway accident killed 15 British commuters who were riding the Liverpool express train.
• In the U.S., a railroad accident killed 11 bus passengers and seriously injured 8 others near Hampton, Virginia, when Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train No. 46 struck the bus in which they were riding.
• In China, General Feng Yuxiang's troops entered Tianjin.
• Calvin Coolidge and John W. Davis made their final appeals to voters with radio addresses on the eve of the presidential election.
• The League of Nations opened its first session of the International Opium Conference, addressing the issue of opium smoking and addiction.
• Born:
• *Ralph Lazo, American rights activist who was the only non-Japanese American to voluntarily relocate to a Japanese American internment camp during World War II; in Los Angeles
• *Slobodan Novak, Croatian Yugoslavian novelist; in Split

  November 4, 1924 (Tuesday)

• Calvin Coolidge of the Republican Party was elected to a second term in the U.S. presidential election, as Democratic opponent John W. Davis nearly swept the South but was unable to carry any other states. Third-party candidate Robert M. La Follette won his home state of Wisconsin and its 13 electoral votes, while Coolidge had 382 electoral votes and Davis had 136. Davis, formerly the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, won less than 29% of the popular vote, the lowest share by the Democratic Party nominee in any U.S. presidential election.
• Stanley Baldwin returned to office as the prime minister of the United Kingdom after forming a Conservative Party government, following the October 29 election.
• A mutiny of eight Brazilian Navy officers and 260 sailors took place on the Brazilian battleship São Paulo. The mutineers took control of the ship and attempted unsuccessfully to incite rebellion among officers on other ships, then fired a shell at the warship Minas Geraes and sailed out of the Rio de Janeiro harbor. After a brief exchange of fire with the batteries at Fortaleza de Santa Cruz da Barra and Fort Copacabana, the São Paulo rebels arrived at Uruguay on November 10, where they were granted asylum. The Minas Geraes escorted the São Paulo back to Rio de Janeiro, where it arrived on November 21.
• Richard Strauss's autobiographical opera Intermezzo was given its first performance, premiering in Dresden at the Semperoper opera house.
• French sawmill foreman Joseph Marie Guillaume Seznec was convicted of murder after an eight day trial, following the mysterious disappearance of salesman Pierre Quéméneur, despite no evidence that Quéméneur had been killed. Seznec would be imprisoned for more than 20 years at the Devil's Island prison off of the coast of South America before being released in 1947. The case would be reopened in 2006, more than 50 years after Seznec was killed in a pedestrian accident, but the conviction would be upheld.
• Fighting broke out between Italian veterans of World War One and members of the Fascist Party's Blackshirts during a march to the Piazza Venezia to commemorate the anniversary of the Italian Armistice.
• Died: Gabriel Fauré, 79, French composer

  November 5, 1924 (Wednesday)

• Former Chinese emperor Puyi, who had received a measure of luxury as part of the 1912 Articles of Favourable Treatment of the Great Qing Emperor after His Abdication, was expelled from the Forbidden City by orders of General Feng Yuxiang, who unilaterally revoked the Articles. Puyi was given the status of a private citizen of the Republic of China and his imperial title and privileges were revoked. General Feng permanently abolished the eunuch system throughout China as part of his reforms.

  November 6, 1924 (Thursday)

• Nikola Pašić became Prime Minister of Yugoslavia for the second time.
• Winston Churchill was named as the British chancellor of the exchequer, a surprising move on the part of Stanley Baldwin, as Churchill had no experience in finance.
• The A. A. Milne poetry collection When We Were Very Young was published.
• The Irish Boundary Commission held its first meeting to come to an agreement of the dividing line between the Irish Free State and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with an initial gathering in London at 6 Clement's Inn. The commission was composed of Richard Feetham for the British government, Eoin MacNeill for the Irish Free State and Joseph R. Fisher for Northern Ireland.
• Born:
• *U.S. Army Master Sergeant Mike C. Pena, Korean War hero awarded the Medal of Honor more than 63 years after his death; in Corpus Christi, Texas
• *Corporal Harlon Block, U.S. Marine who was one of the flag raisers at the Battle of Iwo Jima; in Yorktown, Texas
• *Baroness Lips von Lipstrill, Czechoslovakian-born American transgender entertainer known for her whistling abilities, outfits and risque comedy; in Volary, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia

  November 7, 1924 (Friday)

• The Soviet Union displayed its first manufactured motor vehicle, the AMO-F-15 truck, after the truck came off the assembly line of the new AMO assembly plant at Tyufeleva south of Moscow on November 1.
• Germany announced its first balanced budget since the end of World War One.
• Austria's Prime Minister Ignaz Seipel resigned along with his cabinet of ministers.
• The Alvarado Hot Springs geothermal pool was discovered in Los Angeles County, California on the ranch of William P. Alvarado near Puente Hills. Alvarado had been drilling for natural gas when the operation reached a depth of. The spa would remain operational for at least 35 years.
• The first commercial radio station in Australia, 2BE, began regular broadcasting from Sydney on a frequency of 870 AM.
• Boško Boškovič, Governor of Lower Kolašin in Yugoslavia's Montenegro republic, was assassinated while traveling from Mojkovac to Šahovići, and local authorities arrested 31 men from Šahovići.

  November 8, 1924 (Saturday)

• In Honolulu, Hawaii, Korean nationalist Syngman Rhee announced plans for a new independence movement to obtain Korea's independence from the Japanese Empire.
• The Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published for the first time in Collier's Weekly in the United States.
• Born:
• *Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey goaltender and inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame; in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
• *Munawar Sultana, popular Indian film actress; in Lahore, Punjab Province, British India
• *Rudolf Nassauer, German novelist; in Frankfurt
• *Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and textbook writer; in Hannibal, Missouri
• Died: Mike Merlo, 44, Sicilian-born American mobster with the "Chicago Outfit" or "South Side Gang" of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone, as well as a political figure within Chicago's Democratic Party political machine, died of cancer.

  November 9, 1924 (Sunday)

• The Šahovići massacre of hundreds of Yugoslav Muslims in the Montenegro villages of Šahovići and Pavino Polje began after an estimated 2,000 Orthodox Christian men from the municipalities of Kolašin and Bijelo Polje assembled following the burial of Boško Bošković. Over the next two days, from 120 to 600 to 1,000 Muslims were killed.
• Soviet troops massed intimidatingly on the border with Estonia on the eve of the opening of the trial of the 149.
• The Giro di Lombardia bicycle race in Italy was won by Giovanni Brunero of the Legnano team, who covered the course in 8 hours and 23 minutes.
• The silent drama film He Who Gets Slapped, starring Lon Chaney, was released.
• Born: Robert Frank, Swiss photographer; in Zürich
• Died: Henry Cabot Lodge, 74, U.S. senator and historian