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1924
 
    
7-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives his first professional recital, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in San Francisco       
1924
 
    
A massive Conservative victory in the UK general election follows publication of the forged Zinoviev letter, and Baldwin returns as prime minister       
1924
 
    
Harold Macmillan stands again for Stockton-on-Tees and this time wins the seat with a majority of 3215       
1924
 
    
Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, based on verses by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, is premiered in Brno       
1924
 
    
US poet E.A. Robinson publishes a narrative poem, The Man Who Died Twice, about the dissipation of artistic talent       
1924
 
    
Calvin Coolidge is elected US president in his own right, winning by a wide margin over Democrat John W. Davis       
1924
 
     
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani        
1924
 
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The first omnibus service starts to Twickenham rugby ground, and the RFU buys 7 more acres of land. See in Google maps   
1924
 
    
E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities       
1924
 
    
Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young       
Christopher Robin, c.1924
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