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1924
Events
January
January 10
– The British submarine
L-24
sinks in the
English Channel
; 43 lives are lost.
January 12
–
Gopinath Saha
shoots a man he erroneously thinks is
Sir Charles Tegart
, the police commissioner of
Calcutta
, and is arrested soon after.
January 21
– Following the death of
Vladimir Lenin
,
Joseph Stalin
immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.
January 22
–
Ramsay MacDonald
becomes the first
Labour
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
.
January 23
– The
Soviet Union
officially declares that
Lenin
died
January 21
.
January 25
– The
1924 Winter Olympics
open in
Chamonix
, in the French
Alps
.
January 26
– Petrograd (
Saint Petersburg
) is renamed
Leningrad
. It reverts to Saint Petersburg in
1991
.
January 27
–
Lenin
is buried in
Lenin's Mausoleum
in Moscow's
Red Square
.
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