December 1924

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The following events occurred in December 1924:

December 1, 1924 (Monday)

December 2, 1924 (Tuesday)

December 3, 1924 (Wednesday)

December 4, 1924 (Thursday)

December 5, 1924 (Friday)

December 6, 1924 (Saturday)

  • France rounded up over 300 communists in raids on their headquarters, including some 70 of foreign nationality that were to be deported. "There are too many foreign communists in France who forget their duty to the country that has given them asylum", Prime Minister Édouard Herriot told the Chamber of Deputies. "They are indulging in political demonstrations, and we will not tolerate it, we will not let them meddle in our political life. If we meet with resistance we will break it, and we will deport as many as necessary."[22]
  • Born: Wally Cox, comedian and actor, in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1973)
  • Died: Gene Stratton-Porter, 61, American author, screenwriter and naturalist

December 7, 1924 (Sunday)

December 8, 1924 (Monday)

December 9, 1924 (Tuesday)

December 10, 1924 (Wednesday)

December 11, 1924 (Thursday)

December 12, 1924 (Friday)

December 13, 1924 (Saturday)

December 14, 1924 (Sunday)

December 15, 1924 (Monday)

  • In a letter to British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill opined that Singapore's defences did not need to be completed for another fifteen to twenty years, writing, "I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way."[32][33]
  • Died: Friedrich Trendelenburg, 80, German surgeon

December 16, 1924 (Tuesday)

  • The Supreme Court of Hungary confiscated the property of former president Mihály Károlyi for high treason. Károlyi was convicted of negotiating with Italy in 1915 to keep the Italians out of the war in exchange for Austrian territory, and for allowing a communist revolution to happen in 1919 by deserting his position.[34]
  • Born: Loudon Wainwright, Jr., American writer (d. 1988)

December 17, 1924 (Wednesday)

December 18, 1924 (Thursday)

  • Pope Pius XI made his first statement against communism after an abandoned pontifical relief mission returned from Russia. He said the Vatican would continue to make efforts to help needy Russians, but "nobody certainly can have thought by our efforts on behalf of the Russian people we intended in any way to lend our support to a system of government which we are so far from approving."[36]

December 19, 1924 (Friday)

December 20, 1924 (Saturday)

December 21, 1924 (Sunday)

  • The string of murders by German serial killer and cannibal Karl Denke came to an end when a homeless drifter, Vincenz Olivier, narrowly escaped being killed after being lured into Denke's home and alerted police in Münsterberg (now Ziębice in Poland).[41] Denke hanged himself in his jail cell the next day, and police searched his house, finding a ledger with the names of 30 victims (and a 31st entry for Olivier) and a large number of body parts deemed to have come from 42 or more people.[42]
  • In the Republic of China, the "New National Pronunciation", a standardized pronunciation for the character sounds of the Chinese language was set by delegates of a Commission, established for the purpose of reforming the "Guóyīn Zìdiǎn". The delegates recommended the usage of Beijing, and later incorporated the new standard in 1932 to the "Guóyīn Chángyòng Zìhuì" (國音常用字匯, "Vocabulary of National Pronunciation for Everyday Use").[43] Chen, Ping (1999). Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics (1st ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. pp. https://archive.org/details/modernchinesehis00chen/page/16 16]–19. ISBN 9780521645720.
  • Roughly 100 people were injured in rioting between communists and police in Berlin as a group of 50,000 German communists turned into a crushing mob when they gathered to greet Erich Mühsam upon his release from prison in the same general amnesty that freed Hitler.[44]
  • Born:
  • 'Died: Francesco Negri, 83, Italian photographer known for his development of the telephoto lens, and improvements in photomicroscopy[45]

December 22, 1924 (Monday)

  • An interallied military committee headed by Ferdinand Foch decided that troops would not withdraw from the Cologne area on January 10, 1925, as specified in the Treaty of Versailles, because Germany had not fulfilled its disarmament provisions. Angry articles in the German press accused the Allies of breaking the Dawes Pact.[46]

December 23, 1924 (Tuesday)

December 24, 1924 (Wednesday)

December 25, 1924 (Thursday)

December 26, 1924 (Friday)

  • Soviet ambassador Leonid Krassin said that Russia would not pay any outstanding debts accrued in the days of the Tsar.[53]
  • Judy Garland made her show business debut at the age of 2+12, singing "Jingle Bells" at her parents' theater in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.[54]
  • Died: William Emerson, 81, British architect

December 27, 1924 (Saturday)

  • An editorial written by the estranged Fascist politician Cesare Rossi ran in Giovanni Amendola's newspaper Il Mondo, simultaneously published in other opposition papers. In it, Rossi claimed that Benito Mussolini had directly ordered the Fascists to carry out several crimes.[55][56]
  • During a transfer of 10.5 tonnes dynamite from a cargo ship to freight car, there was an explosion in Temiya railway station, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, 94 persons were killed and more than 300 persons were hurt, according to a Japanese government official document figured report.[57]

December 28, 1924 (Sunday)

  • A general election was conducted in Honduras. Miguel Paz Barahona of the conservative National Party was elected president virtually unopposed, as liberals boycotted the election.[58]
  • With Franco-German tensions high over the issue of the occupation of Cologne, a sensational report was published in Paris claiming that German scientists had secretly developed a new and devastating poison gas that could annihilate a whole city in a matter of hours.[59]

December 29, 1924 (Monday)

December 30, 1924 (Tuesday)

  • Mussolini called an unexpected cabinet meeting and requested a show of support from all present, which he received from a majority.[55] The two Liberal ministers in Mussolini's cabinet were convinced to withdraw their resignations.[61]
  • German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann told international media that peace in Europe and fulfillment of the Dawes Plan were in danger unless a compromise was reached on the Cologne evacuation issue.[62]

December 31, 1924 (Wednesday)

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