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The Illustrated London News 1924.

 

Football after dark: A match on the first Association ground lit by electric light.

Playing with a white chrome ball by the light of powerful electric lamps on thirty masts: Ladies' football teams on the Burnley Cricket Club Ground
The ladies teams are representing "The Dick Kerr Electric Company of Preston v Heys' of Bradford.

eric liddell the flying scotsman

- Mr Eric Henry Liddell (The flying Scotsman)- Olympic Champion in 400 metres

(Film "Chariots of Fire")

The 1924 Summer Olympics were hosted by the city of Paris.
A devout Christian, Liddell refused to run in a heat held
on Sunday and was forced to withdraw from the 100-metre race, his best event.

in 1923 AAA champion 9.7 seconds (that wouldn't be bettered for 23 years)

 

 

Some Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

Year of the Anaglyphs!

The very first anaglyphs (3D pictures) in the Illustrated London News complete with a packet of red and green celluloid and instructions how to make viewing glasses.

Their followed a long series of pictures and adverts during 1924 and 1925.

1924 3d dinosaurs

1924 Dinosaurs in 3D Anaglyphs

January 21st - Death of Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, at 54. Buried on the 27th to a salute of factory sirens. Stalin takes power

January 22nd - Britains first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald

March 31st - Imperial Airways formed as Britain's National airline

April 4th - The BBC broadcasted the first radio programmes for schools

April 23rd - British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley

July - The Paris Olympic Games Harold Abrahams won gold 100 metres and Eric Liddell 400 metres (later a film Chariots of Fire)

August - pictures from the telescope on Mount Wilson observatory California proclaimed Venus as having abundant vegetation and animal life!

October 31st - Labour routed by Tories after a "red scare", provoked by Zinoviev letter (ordering a Red Revolution in Britain)
it is now considered to have been a forgery

Baldwin became Prime Minister once more.

More Tutankhamun treasures revealed

George Bernard Shaw's St Joan was produced on the London Stage

Sansovino won the Derby

Calvin Coolidge elected 30th President of the USA

E. M. Forster's A Passage to India was published

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- number 4421 vol 164

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JAN 26

- number 4423 vol 164