Timeline Saturday 5 July 1924

Events on Saturday 5 July 1924 1

• 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.