2024 ANNIVERSARIES
2026 ANNIVERSARIES // 2025 ANNIVERSARIES //2024 Anniversaries
21st January - 100th Anniversary of death of Vladimir Lenin
23rd January - 80th Anniversary death of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch
27th January - 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin being buried in Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow in 1924
30th January - 50th Birthday of English Actor Christian Bale
19th February - 100th anniversary of the birth of American actor Lee Marvin
2nd March - 25th anniversary of the death of singer Dusty Springfield
7th March - 25th anniversary of the death of American film director Stanley Kubrick
29th March - 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang in Xi'an, China
3rd April - 100th anniversary of the birth of American actor Marlon Brando
6th April - 50th anniversary of ABBA winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with Waterloo.
10th May - 100th anniversary of J Edgar Hoover being appointed the head of the FBI
22nd May - 75th anniversary of the birth of American actress Meryl Streep
25th May - 100th anniversary of the birth of American film director Sidney Lumet
6th June - D-DAY 80th Anniversary
1st September - 75th anniversary of the UK premiere of the Cannes Grand Prix 1949 winning film The Third Man with Orson Welles
25th December - Sissy Spacek 75th Birthday
1st August - 80th anniversary of the last entry written in her diary by Anne Frank in 1944. She and her family were captured and taken to Auschwitz on 4th August.
16th September - 100th anniversary of the birth of American actress Lauren Bacall
12th August - 85th anniversary of the US film premiere of the Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland in 1939. (USA release on 25th August and UK premiere 9th November)
6th October- 35th anniversary of the death of American actress Bette Davis
31st August - Richard Gere 75th Birthday
30th October - 50th anniversary of the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire