Timeline July 1924

Events in July 1924 7

• 1858 – 1924 Giacomo Puccini Verismo opera master Italian opera composer whose La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and the unfinished Turandot are among the most performed operas in the world.
• 1866 – 1924 Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Died 27 July 1924, aged 58 Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian-German composer and virtuoso pianist known for his transcriptions of Bach and his own operas and piano works. He was also an influential teacher and theorist of early 20th-century music.
• 1924 1924 Summer Olympics VIII Olympiad - Paris First Games to feature the closing ceremony. Winner: USA.
• 1924 Bose-Einstein statistics An unknown Indian physicist sends a rejected paper Satyendra Nath Bose wrote to Einstein from Dhaka after journals turned his work down. Einstein translated it into German, had it published, and extended it to matter, predicting a new state in which atoms collapse into a single quantum state. The condensate was finally produced in a laboratory in 1995.
• 1924 Wimbledon 1924 Men: Jean Borotra · Women: Kathleen McKane
• 1924 Summer Olympics open in Paris Second Paris Games, later dramatized in Chariots of Fire The 1924 Summer Olympics opened in Paris on 5 July, the last Games to include events like rugby union and tug of war for decades. Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi and British sprinters Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell became the meet's defining stars.
• 1924 – 2006 Don Knotts (1924-2006) Died 24 February 2006, aged 81 Don Knotts, the American actor and comedian best known as Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," died of pulmonary and respiratory complications. He won five Emmy Awards for the role. His comic timing made him one of television's most recognizable character actors.