MultiEducator · The 20th Century Almanac
HistoryCentral Est. 1996
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1924
The 20th Century Almanac · The Twenties

1924

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Lenin died, opening the Soviet power struggle that would lift Stalin, while Britain saw its first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald. The Dawes Plan eased Germany's reparations, and the first Winter Olympics were held at Chamonix.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
Reymont
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
Literature
REYMONT, (pen-name of REYMONT, WLADYSLAW STANISLAW), Poland, b. 1867, d. 1925: "for his great national epic, The Peasants"
Peace
The prize money for 1923-1924 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
Physiology or Medicine
EINTHOVEN, WILLEM, the Netherlands, Leyden University, b. 1860 (in Semarang, Java, then Dutch East Indies), d. 1927: "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"
Physics
SIEGBAHN, KARL MANNE GEORG, Sweden, Uppsala University, b. 1886, d. 1978: "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Hatcher Hughes ... "Hell-Bent for Heaven"
Fiction
Margaret Wilson ... "The Able McLaughlins"
History
Charles Howard Mcllwain ... "The American Revolution"
Public Service
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