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October 29, 1924 (Wednesday) [ edit ] Voting took place in the UK for all 615 seats of the House of Commons and was marked by a gain of 154 seats by the Conservative Party of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , as well as a loss of 158 seats for the coalition of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald 's Labour Party and former Prime Minister H. H ...
October 9 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (d. 2012) October 10. David Shepherd, American producer, director and actor (d. 2018) Ed Wood, American filmmaker, actor, writer, producer and director (d. 1978) October 11 – Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete (d. 2015) October 13 – Terry Gibbs, American vibraphone player and bandleader
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1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1920s decade.
The Beijing Coup (Chinese: 北 京 政 變; pinyin: Běijīng Zhèngbiàn) was the October 1924 coup d'état by Feng Yuxiang against Chinese President Cao Kun, leader of the Zhili warlord faction. Feng called it the Capital Revolution ( Chinese : 首 都 革 命 ; pinyin : Shǒudū Gémìng ).
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7 October – John Hanscomb, politician (died 2019) 8 October – John Nelder, statistician (died 2010) 17 October – David Butler, academic psephologist (died 2022) 24 October Christine Glanville, puppeteer (died 1999) Ullin Place, philosopher and psychiatrist (died 2000) 30 October – Norman Bird, actor (died 2005)