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==November 6, 1924 (Thursday)==

==November 6, 1924 (Thursday)==

*[[Nikola Pašić]] became [[Prime Minister of Yugoslavia]] for the second time.

*[[Nikola Pašić]] became [[Prime Minister of Yugoslavia]] for the second time.

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*[[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.<ref name="chronicle of the 20th c." />

*The [[A. A. Milne]] poetry collection ''[[When We Were Very Young]]'' was published.<ref>Cameron, Laura and Forrester, John. "'A nice type of the English scientist': Tansley and Freud." ''Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis''. Ed. Daniel Pick and Lyndal Roper. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004. 220. {{ISBN|1-58391-282-7}}.</ref>

*The [[A. A. Milne]] poetry collection ''[[When We Were Very Young]]'' was published.<ref>Cameron, Laura and Forrester, John. "'A nice type of the English scientist': Tansley and Freud." ''Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis''. Ed. Daniel Pick and Lyndal Roper. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004. 220. {{ISBN|1-58391-282-7}}.</ref>

*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.<ref name="Provenance">{{cite journal|last=Rankin|first=K. J. |year=2006 |title=The Provenance and Dissolution of the Irish Boundary Commission |journal=IBIS Working Papers|publisher=Institute for British-Irish Studies, University College Dublin |issue=79 |url=https://www.ucd.ie/ibis/filestore/wp2006/79/79_kr.pdf |page=5}}</ref> The Commission was composed of [[Richard Feetham]] for the British government, [[Eoin MacNeill]] for the Irish Free State and [[Joseph R. Fisher (author)|Joseph R. Fisher]] for Northern Ireland.

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*[[Winston Churchill]] was named [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], a surprising move on the part of [[Stanley Baldwin]] as Churchill had no experience in finance.<ref name="chronicle of the 20th c." />

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*'''Born:'''

*'''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]] (killed in action at the [[Battle of Tabu-dong]], 1950)

**[[Harlon Block]], U.S. marine and [[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima|flag raiser on Iwo Jima]], in [[Yorktown, Texas]] (d. 1945)

**Corporal [[Harlon Block]], U.S. Marine who was one of the [[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima|flag raisers]] at the [[Battle of Iwo Jima]]; in [[Yorktown, Texas]] (killed in action at Iwo Jima, 1945)

**[[Jeanette Schmid]], notable whistler, in [[Volary]], [[Sudetenland]], [[Czechoslovakia]] (d. 2005)

**[[Jeanette Schmid|Baroness Lips von Lipstrill]] (stage name for Rudolf Schmid, later Jeanette Schmid), Czechoslovakian-born American transgender entertainer known for her whistling abilities, outfits and risque comedy; in [[Volary]], [[Sudetenland]], [[Czechoslovakia]] (d. 2005)

==November 7, 1924 (Friday)==

==November 7, 1924 (Friday)==

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The following events occurred in November 1924:

November 1, 1924 (Saturday)

• Gerardo Machado was elected president of Cuba under the Liberal-Popular Coalition banner.
• Éamon de Valera was sentenced to a month in prison for entering Ulster illegally.^[1]
• 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 İslamköy (d. 2015)

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.
• 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 (for 5 points) compared to Argentina's 1-2-0 (for 4 points), 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 (d. 1988)
  • Earl J. Chronister Jr., American sport shooter who held the world record for 20 years for accuracy at 1,000 yards; in Dallastown, Pennsylvania (d. 2009)

November 3, 1924 (Monday)

• A railway accident killed 15 British commuters who were riding the Liverpool express train.^[2]
• In China, General Feng Yuxiang's troops entered Tianjin.^[3]
• Calvin Coolidge and John W. Davis made their final appeals to voters with radio addresses on the eve of the presidential election.^[4]
• The League of Nations opened its first session of the International Opium Conference, addressing the issue of opium smoking and addiction.^[5]
• 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 (d. 1992)^[6]
  • Slobodan Novak, Croatian Yugoslavian novelist; in Split (d. 2016)

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.^[7] 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.^[8]
• Richard Strauss's autobiographical opera Intermezzo was given its first performance, premiering in Dresden at the Semperoper opera house.^[9]
• 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.^[10]
• 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.^[11]
• 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.^[12] General Feng permanently abolished the eunuch system throughout China as part of his reforms.^[13]

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.^[1]
• The A. A. Milne poetry collection When We Were Very Young was published.^[14]
• 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.^[15] 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 (killed in action at the Battle of Tabu-dong, 1950)
  • Corporal Harlon Block, U.S. Marine who was one of the flag raisers at the Battle of Iwo Jima; in Yorktown, Texas (killed in action at Iwo Jima, 1945)
  • Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (stage name for Rudolf Schmid, later Jeanette Schmid), Czechoslovakian-born American transgender entertainer known for her whistling abilities, outfits and risque comedy; in Volary, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia (d. 2005)

November 7, 1924 (Friday)

• Germany announced its first balanced budget since the war.^[16]
• The Ignaz Seipel government resigned in Austria.^[17]

November 8, 1924 (Saturday)

• 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.^[18]
• In Honolulu, Hawaii, Korean nationalist Syngman Rhee announced plans for a new Korean independence movement.^[19]
• Born: Johnny Bower, Canadian hockey player; in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada (d. 2017)
• Died: Mike Merlo, 44, Chicago political figure, died of cancer.

November 9, 1924 (Sunday)

• Soviet troops massed intimidatingly on the border with Estonia on the eve of the trial of the 149 beginning.^[20]
• The silent drama film He Who Gets Slapped, starring Lon Chaney, was released.
• Born: Robert Frank, Swiss photographer; in Zürich (d. 2019)
• Died: Henry Cabot Lodge, 74, U.S. Senator and historian

November 10, 1924 (Monday)

• Ranch property belonging to Mexican president-elect Plutarco Elías Calles was expropriated by the state in accordance with agrarian laws.^[21]
• Died: Dion O'Banion, 32, American mobster and leader of Chicago's North Side Gang, was murdered in his flower shop, which he used as a front for his organized criminal operations.

November 11, 1924 (Tuesday)

• The Martin Beck Theatre (now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre) opened in New York City.
• Born: Evelyn Wawryshyn, Canadian born baseball player in the AAGPBL, inductee to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame; in Tyndall, Manitoba (d. 2022)

November 12, 1924 (Wednesday)

• A new session of the Italian parliament opened without 185 opposition members who had stayed away in an ill-conceived protest against the Fascist Party.^[22] The "Aventine Secession" allowed the Fascists to enact the restrictive program of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
• The Tientsin Conference began with powerful warlords meeting to discuss the future government of China^[23] in the hope of reconciling with Sun Yat-sen's rival government in Canton.
• Died: Yevgenia Shakhovskaya-Glebova-Streshneva, 83, Russian philanthropist and children's activist

November 13, 1924 (Thursday)

• The Polish Orthodox Church was created as an autocephalous religious denomination by the signing of the Patriarchal and Synodal Tomos by Patriarch Gregory VII of Constantinople,^[24] with the official proclamation taking effect on September 17, 1925.
• Italy's Prime Minister Benito Mussolini introduced a bill allowing women to vote in national elections in Italy.^[1]
• Born:
  • Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and theoretical population geneticist known for his introduction, in 1968, of the neutral theory of molecular evolution; in Okazaki, Aichi prefecture (d.1994)^[25]
  • Edward F. Welch, Jr., U.S. Navy admiral; in Barrington, Rhode Island (d. 2008)

November 14, 1924 (Friday)

• In New York City, explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth announced plans for a joint polar flight expedition in 1925.^[26]
• Born:
  • Rikidōzan (ring name for Mitsuhiro Momota), Korean-born Japanese sumo and professional wrestler, credited with bringing pro wrestling to Japan, posthumously inducted to the WWE Hall of Fame; as Kim Sin-rak in Hongwon, Japanese Korea (killed in street fight, 1963)^[27]
  • Parappurath (pen name for Kizhakkepainummoodu Easo Mathai), Indian novelist and screenplay writer; in Mavelikkara, Travancore kingdom, British India (now in the Kerala state) (d. 1981)^[28]
  • Julian Roosevelt, American banker and 1952 Olympic gold medalist in yachting; in Manhattan, New York City (d. 1986)^[29]
  • Dong Leshan, Chinese author and translator known for rendering numerous English-language publications into the Chinese language for reading in the People's Republic of China; in Ningbo, Zhejiang province (d. 1999)^[30]
• Died:
  • Jaan Tomp, 30, Estonian Communist and member of parliament who was the sole defendant to be executed for high treason following the "Trial of the 149".^[31]
  • Joe Quest, 71, American baseball player who played 1871 to 1886, and who was said to have coined the term "Charley horse" to describe a sudden leg cramp or sprain.^[32][33][34]

November 15, 1924 (Saturday)

• France clashed with the United States over a letter from reparations agent Seymour Parker Gilbert stating that Britain and France were not entitled to collect a tax of 26 percent on German imports as part of reparations payments under the Dawes Plan. France contended that the import tax had nothing to do with the Plan.^[35]
• The United Kingdom angered Japan at the International Opium Conference in Geneva when British delegate Malcolm Delevingne said that Great Britain could not habitually recognize import certificates, because they were often diverted on the way to the country of purchase for illicit purposes by high officials in one far eastern country that he "preferred not to name."^[36]
• Nine members of the St. Louis-based "Egan's Rats" gang of bank robbers were convicted of robbery of a mail truck and each sentenced to 25 years incarceration in a federal prison. Over five years between 1919 and 1924, Egan's Rats, founded by Willie Egan and later led by Dint Colbeck, stole almost $4.5 million worth in cash and property, including the heist of $2.4 million from an armored mail truck on April 2, 1923. The convictions ended the organization, which had employed over 300 people over 35 years.^[37]
• Died:
  • Artur de Sacadura Cabral, 43, Portuguese aviator known for making (in 1922) the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic Ocean, disappeared while he and copilot José Correia were flying over the English Channel.
  • Daisuke Nanba, 25, Japanese Communist convicted of attempting to assassinate Crown Prince Hirohito, was hanged at Ichigaya Prison two days after a ruling by the Supreme Court of Japan that he was guilty of high treason.^[38]

November 16, 1924 (Sunday)

• French troops evacuated the right bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Koblenz.^[39]
• Japan essentially quit the International Opium Conference, claiming the proposed agreement was discriminatory against them and that the British delegation had offended Japan's honour.^[36]
• Born: Mel Patton, U.S. track and field sprinter and 1948 Olympic gold medalist, known for setting the world record of 9.2 seconds in the 100 yard dash in 1948 and breaking the record of Jesse Owens in the 220 yard dash in 1949; in Los Angeles (d. 2014)^[40]

November 17, 1924 (Monday)

• The Canadian province of Ontario said it would build a "dry navy" to co-operate with American Prohibition enforcement agents unless the Canadian federal government did more to stop rum-running.^[41]
• The film A Sainted Devil, starring Rudolph Valentino, was released.

November 18, 1924 (Tuesday)

• Britain asked the League of Nations for an indefinite postponement of any further discussion on the Geneva Protocol.^[42]

November 19, 1924 (Wednesday)

• Major-General Sir Lee Stack, British Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, was shot in Cairo by a gang of Egyptian nationalist students, dying the following day.^[43]
• Hollywood producer Thomas H. Ince died at his estate in California, two days after leaving a gathering attended by many celebrities aboard William Randolph Hearst's private yacht, the Oneida. The cause of death was officially given as a heart attack, but wild rumors circulated that he had been shot or somehow otherwise fatally afflicted under circumstances that were covered up. A 2001 film, The Cat's Meow, is based on the rumors.^[44][45]
• The legislature of the Philippines passed a resolution calling for complete independence from the United States.^[5]
• Born:
  • William Russell, British actor, in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
  • J. D. Sumner, American singer, songwriter and music promoter; in Lakeland, Florida (d. 1998)
• Died: Thomas H. Ince, 42, American film producer, died of heart failure after he became severely ill aboard the private yacht of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst.^[46]

November 20, 1924 (Thursday)

• Rudolf Ramek became Chancellor of Austria.
• Born:
  • Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish mathematician; in Warsaw (d. 2010)
  • Mark Miller, American actor;, in Houston, Texas (d. 2022)
• Died: Sir Lee Stack, 56, British Governor-General of Sudan, died the day after being shot by assassins.

November 21, 1924 (Friday)

• Britain's new Stanley Baldwin government scrapped the commercial treaties that Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government had negotiated with the Soviet Union.^[5]
• Born: Warren Hacker, American baseball player; in Marissa, Illinois (d. 2002)
• Died: Florence Harding, 64, former First Lady of the United States and widow of Warren G. Harding

November 22, 1924 (Saturday)

• Fethi Okyar formed a new government as Prime Minister of Turkey upon the resignation of İsmet İnönü.
• The British government sent a message to Egyptian Prime Minister Saad Zaghloul demanding complete satisfaction in the matter of the assassination of Governor-General Sir Lee Stack, including punishment of those responsible and a payment of £500,000 in compensation. Britain blamed the assassination on the Egyptian government's failure to take steps to suppress anti-British agitation.^[47]
• Born:
  • Geraldine Page, American film, television and stage actress, winner of the 1985 Academy Award for Best Actress (for The Trip to Bountiful), as well as a BAFTA award, two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; in Kirksville, Missouri (d. 1987)^[48]
  • Robert M. Young, American film and television director; in New York City (d. 2024)^[49]

November 23, 1924 (Sunday)

• Edwin Hubble announced his discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe. Hubble's discovery was disclosed by him to the The New York Times.^[50] Hubble's paper was published on December 30 after peer review and presented by him at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 1.^[51]
• Radio broadcasting began in the Soviet Union as "All-Union Radio" (Vsesoyuznoye Radio) went on the air at a station operated by the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow, with transmission from the Shukhov Tower.
• American lawyer and fugitive Leo Koretz was arrested in Canada after being identified by a label sewn into his suit jacket, which he had brought to a tailor for repairs.^[52] Koretz, who had fled from the U.S. to Halifax, Nova Scotia, after being sought for assisting Charles Ponzi in defrauding investors, had been living in Halifax under the alias "Lou Keyte".^[53] Koretz died in prison less than two months after his arrest.^[54]
• Embattled Italian leader Benito Mussolini apologized for the events in Rome on November 4 and promised to take steps to keep his Blackshirts under control.^[55]
• Born:
  • Anita Linda (stage name for Alice Bueñaflor Lake), Philippine film actress and leading lady; in Pasay (d. 2020)^[56]
  • Paula Raymond (stage name for Paula Ramona Wright), American film and television actress known for the 1950 film noir Crisis; in San Francisco (d. 2003)^[57]
  • Lewis Yablonsky, American sociologist known for his studies of gang members, drug addicts and hippies; in Irvington, New Jersey (d. 2014)^[58]

November 24, 1924 (Monday)

• The fossilized remains of the "Taung child", the first individual of the extinct species Australopithecus africanus, were found by Australian anatomist and anthropologist Raymond Dart in a box of fossils sent to him by a shotfirer who had saved them from a limestone quarry at Taung in South Africa.^[60] Carbon dating indicated that the Taung child had lived 2.8 million years earlier. Dart concluded from scratches and puncture marks that the child had been killed by a bird of prey.^[61]
• Duan Qirui (Tuan Ch'i-jui) was installed by General Feng Yuxiang as the acting President of the Republic of China, replacing Huang Fu.^[62]
• The "Righteous Government", an alliance of eight organizations seeking to gain the independence of Korea from Japanese rule, was formed at a meeting in Seoul.
• Saad Zaghloul was ousted as Egyptian Prime Minister days after the assassination Sir Lee Stack, Governor-General of Sudan. Zaghloul was succeeded by Ahmad Ziwar Pasha.^[63]
• Born: Joanne Winter, American baseball pitcher for the Racine Belles of the AAGPBL, and the league's all-time career leader in innings pitched (2159) and pitching appearances (287); in Chicago (d. 1996)
• Died:
  • Donald Swanson, 76, Chief Inspector of London's Metropolitan Police during the attempt to identify and arrest the perpetrator of the "Jack the Ripper" murders in 1888^[64]
  • General Fernando Tamagnini de Abreu e Silva, 68, commander of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps during World War One
  • Dr. John Beard, 66, Scottish embryologist known for his disproved theory that cancer could be treated successfully by use of pancreatic enzymes, died from a stroke.^[65]
  • Charles S. Fairchild, 82, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1887 to 1889 during the administration of Grover Cleveland

November 25, 1924 (Tuesday)

• Charlie Chaplin married his second wife, Lita Grey, in Empalme, Mexico.^[66]
• Radio stations in the United States broadcast an "hour of silence" between 10 and 11 p.m., setting it aside for international broadcasting tests. Listeners as far west as Duluth, Minnesota reported being able to hear broadcasting from England, France and Spain.^[67]

• The U.S. Navy dirigible USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) was commissioned, with Lieutenant Commander Maurice R. Pierce leading its crew. The airship was based at Naval Support Facility Anacostia within the District of Columbia. Among the changes made by the U.S. Navy after the airship was received from Germany was to replace the hydrogen gas with helium as a lifting agent.^[68]
• Noel Coward's play The Vortex premiered in London at the Everyman Theatre at Hampstead. Playwright Coward included himself in the initial cast in the role of Nicky Lancaster.^[69]
• Born: Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic and philosopher; in Tokyo (d. 2012)
• Died: Jules Worms, 91, French painter

November 26, 1924 (Wednesday)

• The Mongolian People's Republic was proclaimed.

November 27, 1924 (Thursday)

• The verdicts in the trial of the 149 were read in Estonia. Seven people were acquitted and all the others were sentenced to varying terms of either prison or forced labour.
• The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City.

November 28, 1924 (Friday)

• Mussolini's newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia warned that civil war would break out unless the opposition ceased its "campaign of defamation."^[70]
• Born: Dennis Brutus, South African activist, educator, journalist and poet; in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) (d. 2009)

November 29, 1924 (Saturday)

• A public broadcasting station, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) was founded in Japan, as predecessor name was Tokyo Broadcasting Station.^{[citation needed]}
• The Army–Navy Game was won by Army 12-0 in Baltimore. U.S. president Calvin Coolidge was among the 80,000 in attendance.^[71]
• In the 12th Grey Cup of Canadian football, Queen's University beat the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers 11-3 at Varsity Stadium.
• The Montreal Forum opened in Canada.
• Born: Irv Noren, American baseball player and pro basketball player; in Jamestown, New York (d. 2019)
• Died: Giacomo Puccini, 66, Italian composer

November 30, 1924 (Sunday)

• The 1924 NFL season officially ended with the Cleveland Bulldogs atop the standings.
• Plutarco Elías Calles was inaugurated as the 40th president of Mexico. The National Stadium in Mexico City was packed for the event that only lasted fifteen minutes.^[72]
• Editor of British newspaper The People Hannen Swaffer recounted a séance he attended along with Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Robert McAlpine and others. Swaffer said that the medium contacted Lord Northcliffe, who admitted that Doyle was right about life beyond the grave. "I distrusted your judgement, but I see now how wrong I was", the spirit voice of Northcliffe was quoted as saying.^[73]
• Born: Allan Sherman, American comedy writer and song parodist, in Chicago (d. 1973)

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