1924

1924

Genius/morons/wannabe Nietzschean supermen Leopold & Loeb kill a 14-year-old kid for fun, to commit the 'perfect crime.' They are both caught and sentenced to prison. Loeb is seen here confessing to Leopold that he hopes Brit director Alfred Hitchcock makes a movie about it all one day.

Lenin dies. Stalin begins purging rivals.

Hitler begins work on Mein Kampf.

J. Edgar Hoover becomes head of FBI.

NYC: First Thanksgiving day parade held.

Chinese mobster Gee Jon becomes the first man in the country to be executed by lethal gas. As it turns out, the original idea behind gas execution was that prisoners would have a vent in their cells and the cyanide would be pumped in as they slept. When this proved impractical, a dedicated gas chamber was constructed in Carson City, Nevada. They tested it on bedbugs first, then kittens and a stray dog. It worked fine on Gee Jon too.

born: Lee Marvin, Don Knotts, Jimmy Carter, Ed Wood, Rod Serling

died: Kafka

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Fletcher Henderson - Zip with three songs: Teapot Dome Blues / Copenhagen / Shanghai Blues