Timeline August 1924

Events in August 1924 4

• 1924 US Championships 1924 Men: Bill Tilden · Women: Helen Wills
• 1924 – 2001 Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001) Died 21 June 2001, aged 76 O'Connor played the bigoted working-class Archie Bunker in the sitcom All in the Family, one of the most watched and debated US television shows of the 1970s. He later starred in the drama In the Heat of the Night. He won four Emmy Awards.
• 1924 – 1987 James Baldwin (1924-1987) Died 1 December 1987, aged 63 Baldwin was an American novelist and essayist whose work, including Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time, explored race, sexuality and identity in twentieth-century America. He lived much of his later life in France. He died of stomach cancer in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
• 1924 – 1988 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924-1988) Died 17 August 1988, aged 64 Zia-ul-Haq ruled Pakistan as military dictator and later president after seizing power in a 1977 coup. His rule was marked by Islamization policies and support for Afghan mujahideen fighting the Soviet occupation. He was killed when his military aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff, in an incident never conclusively explained.