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1924
 
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The Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is murdered by Mussolini's Fascists       
1924
 
    
Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller wins three Olympic gold medals in the Paris games, together with a bronze in water polo       
1924
 
  
The British rugby team touring South Africa are for the first time called the Lions     
1924
 
    
Gracie Fields makes her name when she appears in London as Sally Perkins in the musical Mr Tower of London       
1924
 
     
André Breton launches a new movement with his Manifesto of surrealism - Soluble fish        
1924
 
    
Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem Pines of Rome has its first performance in Rome       
1924
 
     
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris        
1924
 
     
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani        
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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