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| Event | Location | City | State or province | Country | Month | Day | Category |
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| Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta | Calcutta | India | January | 12 | Crime | ||
| Kuomintang in China holds its first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party | China | January | 20 | Politics | |||
| The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa | South Africa | January | 21 | Politics | |||
| Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | January | 22 | Politics | |||
| The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps | Chamonix, French Alps | France | January | 25 | Sports | ||
| Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad; it will revert to Saint Petersburg in 1991 | Saint Petersburg | Russia | January | 26 | Historical | ||
| The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union | United Kingdom | February | 1 | Politics | |||
| GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time | Royal Greenwich Observatory | London | England | February | 5 | Technology | |
| Canada's National Hockey League expands to the United States for the first time with the inclusion of the Boston Bruins | Canada | February | 9 | Sports | |||
| Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City, at Aeolian Hall | Aeolian Hall | New York City | United States | February | 12 | Art & Music | |
| The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines (IBM) | New York | New York | United States | February | 14 | Business | |
| Treaty of Rome: The Kingdom of Italy annexes the Free State of Fiume, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbs Sušak | Rome | Italy | February | 22 | Politics | ||
| Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House | White House | United States | February | 22 | Politics | ||
| The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk | Dolmabahçe Palace | Istanbul | Turkey | March | 3 | Historical | |
| İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government) | Turkey | March | 6 | Politics | |||
| Horacio Vásquez wins the Dominican Republic general election, becoming president, coinciding with the end of United States military occupation | Dominican Republic | March | 15 | Politics | |||
| The Second Hellenic Republic is proclaimed in Greece | Greece | March | 25 | Politics | |||
| In France, the Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré begins | France | March | 29 | Politics | |||
| Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail in Germany for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch | Germany | April | 1 | Crime | |||
| The first revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines takes place | Belgium | April | 1 | Aviation | |||
| Italian general election, 1924: Fascists win the elections in Italy with a two-thirds majority | Italy | April | 6 | Politics | |||
| The Greek republic referendum favors formation of the Second Hellenic Republic | Greece | April | 13 | Politics | |||
| American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles through the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures | Los Angeles | United States | April | 16 | Business | ||
| The British Empire Exhibition opens in London; it is the largest colonial exhibition, with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented | London | United Kingdom | April | 23 | Education | ||
| A group of Alawites kill several nuns in Syria; French troops march against them | Syria | April | 27 | Conflict | |||
| An explosion in a mine at the Wheeling Steel Corporation in Benwood, West Virginia kills 119 men | Benwood | West Virginia | United States | April | 28 | Disaster | |
| The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska | Omaha | Nebraska | United States | May | 3 | Social & Culture | |
| The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held | Paris | France | May | 4 | Sports | ||
| Lithuania signs the Klaipėda Convention with the nations of the Conference of Ambassadors | Lithuania | May | 8 | Politics | |||
| J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | United States | May | 10 | Politics | |||
| Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging of companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz | Germany | May | 11 | Business | |||
| University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks | United States | May | 21 | Crime | |||
| The Immigration Act of 1924 is signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act | United States | May | 24 | Politics | |||
| Harry Grindell Matthews attempts to demonstrate his "death ray" to the War Office | United Kingdom | May | 26 | Technology | |||
| Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against Fascism. A few days later he is kidnapped and murdered | Rome | Italy | May | 30 | Politics | ||
| U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law | United States | June | 2 | Politics | |||
| Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean | Atlantic Ocean | June | 5 | Technology | |||
| Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement. | Koberwitz | Wrocław County | Lower Silesian Voivodeship | Poland | June | 7-16 | Education |
| George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest | Mount Everest | China | June | 8 | Exploration | ||
| Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois | Rondout | Illinois | United States | June | 12 | Crime | |
| A devastating tornado, "Wildkansas", strikes Hungary, leaving a path of destruction | Hungary | June | 13 | Disaster | |||
| Whampoa Military Academy is founded in China | China | June | 16 | Education | |||
| American airman Russell Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in a dawn-to-dusk flight | United States | June | 23 | Aviation | |||
| J. B. M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa | South Africa | June | 30 | Politics | |||
| John W. Davis of West Virginia is nominated by the Democrats for the presidential election | West Virginia | United States | July | 9 | Politics | ||
| Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 and 5,000 m runs at the Paris Olympics within two hours | Paris | France | July | 10 | Sports | ||
| United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24) comes to an end | Dominican Republic | July | 12 | Politics | |||
| Napalpí massacre: Around 400 indigenous people of Toba ethnicity are massacred in Argentina | Argentina | July | 19 | Massacre | |||
| The Dawes Plan is signed in Paris, temporarily resolving German reparations dispute. | Paris | France | August | 16 | Politics | ||
| August Uprising: Georgia rises against rule by the Soviet Union in an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die. | Georgia | August | 28 | Conflict | |||
| The Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. | Kauai | Hawaii | September | 9 | Massacre | ||
| The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium. | Belgium | September | 9 | Social & Culture | |||
| The Kohat riots break out in India. | Kohat | India | September | 9-11 | Conflict | ||
| U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle. | Seattle | Washington | United States | September | 28 | Exploration | |
| The skull of the Taung Child is discovered. | Taung | South Africa | October | Science | |||
| The Geneva Protocol is adopted by the League of Nations Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified. | Geneva | Switzerland | October | 2 | Politics | ||
| 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy. | Italy | October | 6 | Technology | |||
| Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924. | Australia | October | 10 | Politics | |||
| The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago. | Chicago | United States | October | 10 | Social & Culture | ||
| Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey. | Friedrichshafen | Germany | October | 12 | Aviation | ||
| The first Surrealist Manifesto is published, in which André Breton defines the movement as "pure psychic automatism". | France | October | 15 | Art & Music | |||
| Sweden's Prime Minister Ernst Trygger and his cabinet is replaced by Hjalmar Branting and his third and last government. | Sweden | October | 18 | Politics | |||
| Abdul Aziz declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca. | Mecca | Saudi Arabia | October | 19 | Politics | ||
| The Toastmasters Club is founded. | Santa Ana | California | United States | October | 22 | Social & Culture | |
| English footballer Dixie Dean scores a hat-trick for Tranmere Rovers F.C. to become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites. | England | October | 24 | Sports | |||
| The British press publishes the Zinoviev letter, released the previous day by the Foreign Office. This purports to be a directive from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Communist International in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain. | United Kingdom | October | 25 | Politics | |||
| Authorities of the British Raj in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 21⁄2 years. | India | October | 25 | Politics | |||
| Osaka Metal Industry, predecessor of Daikin, a global air conditioner brand, is founded in Japan. | Japan | October | 25 | Business | |||
| The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union. | Uzbekistan | October | 27 | Politics | |||
| The last known sighting of a California grizzly bear is recorded, by Colonel John R. White at Sequoia National Park. | Sequoia National Park | United States | November | Nature | |||
| Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States. | Wyoming | United States | November | 4 | Politics | ||
| 1924 United States presidential election: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. La Follette Sr. | United States | November | 4 | Politics | |||
| The Trial of the 149 begins in Estonia, eventually resulting in the conviction of 129 communists, including several members of the Riigikogu. | Estonia | November | 10 | Politics | |||
| Ali Fethi Okyar forms a new government in Turkey (3rd government). | Turkey | November | 21 | Politics | |||
| The Mongolian People's Republic is proclaimed. | Mongolia | November | 26 | Politics | |||
| The Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia. | Estonia | December | 1 | Politics | |||
| George Gershwin's musical Lady Be Good (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and including the number "Fascinating Rhythm") has its Broadway premiere in New York City. | New York | United States | December | 1 | Art & Music | ||
| German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of at least 24 young males in Hanover. | Hanover | Germany | December | 19 | Crime | ||
| In Germany, Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison after serving nine months for his crucial role in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. | Landsberg | Germany | December | 20 | Politics | ||
| 1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash: An airliner crashes soon after takeoff from London's Croydon Airport killing all eight people aboard. This leads to the first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident ever held in the United Kingdom. | Croydon Airport | London | United Kingdom | December | 24 | Disaster | |
| Albania becomes a republic. | Albania | December | 24 | Politics | |||
| Babbs Switch fire: A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma, United States, kills 36 people, mostly small children. | Babbs | Oklahoma | United States | December | 24 | Disaster | |
| American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe. | Mount Wilson Observatory | Mount Wilson | California | United States | December | 30 | Science |
| Francophone explorer, spiritualist and former operatic soprano Alexandra David-Néel, disguised as a male pilgrim, makes a 2-month stay in the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet. | Lhasa | Tibet | Spring | Date unknown | Exploration | ||
| In the United States, the final raid of the Renegade period of the Apache Wars takes place, bringing the American Indian Wars to a close, after 315 years. | United States | Autumn | Date unknown | Conflict | |||
| Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at Stirling, Alberta, Canada. | Stirling | Alberta | Canada | Date unknown | Date unknown | Sports | |
| Alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York. | New York | United States | Date unknown | Date unknown | Education |
Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta
Kuomintang in China holds its first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party
The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa
Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps
Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad; it will revert to Saint Petersburg in 1991
The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union
GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time
Canada's National Hockey League expands to the United States for the first time with the inclusion of the Boston Bruins
Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City, at Aeolian Hall
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines (IBM)
Treaty of Rome: The Kingdom of Italy annexes the Free State of Fiume, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbs Sušak
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House
The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk
İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government)
Horacio Vásquez wins the Dominican Republic general election, becoming president, coinciding with the end of United States military occupation
The Second Hellenic Republic is proclaimed in Greece
In France, the Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré begins
Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail in Germany for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
The first revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines takes place
Italian general election, 1924: Fascists win the elections in Italy with a two-thirds majority
The Greek republic referendum favors formation of the Second Hellenic Republic
American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles through the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures
The British Empire Exhibition opens in London; it is the largest colonial exhibition, with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented
A group of Alawites kill several nuns in Syria; French troops march against them
An explosion in a mine at the Wheeling Steel Corporation in Benwood, West Virginia kills 119 men
The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska
The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held
Lithuania signs the Klaipėda Convention with the nations of the Conference of Ambassadors
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging of companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz
University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks
The Immigration Act of 1924 is signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act
Harry Grindell Matthews attempts to demonstrate his "death ray" to the War Office
Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against Fascism. A few days later he is kidnapped and murdered
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law
Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean
Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.
George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest
Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois
A devastating tornado, "Wildkansas", strikes Hungary, leaving a path of destruction
Whampoa Military Academy is founded in China
American airman Russell Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in a dawn-to-dusk flight
J. B. M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa
John W. Davis of West Virginia is nominated by the Democrats for the presidential election
Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 and 5,000 m runs at the Paris Olympics within two hours
United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24) comes to an end
Napalpí massacre: Around 400 indigenous people of Toba ethnicity are massacred in Argentina
The Dawes Plan is signed in Paris, temporarily resolving German reparations dispute.
August Uprising: Georgia rises against rule by the Soviet Union in an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die.
The Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium.
The Kohat riots break out in India.
U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle.
The skull of the Taung Child is discovered.
The Geneva Protocol is adopted by the League of Nations Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified.
1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy.
Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.
The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey.
The first Surrealist Manifesto is published, in which André Breton defines the movement as "pure psychic automatism".
Sweden's Prime Minister Ernst Trygger and his cabinet is replaced by Hjalmar Branting and his third and last government.
Abdul Aziz declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.
The Toastmasters Club is founded.
English footballer Dixie Dean scores a hat-trick for Tranmere Rovers F.C. to become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites.
The British press publishes the Zinoviev letter, released the previous day by the Foreign Office. This purports to be a directive from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Communist International in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Authorities of the British Raj in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 21⁄2 years.
Osaka Metal Industry, predecessor of Daikin, a global air conditioner brand, is founded in Japan.
The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union.
The last known sighting of a California grizzly bear is recorded, by Colonel John R. White at Sequoia National Park.
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
1924 United States presidential election: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. La Follette Sr.
The Trial of the 149 begins in Estonia, eventually resulting in the conviction of 129 communists, including several members of the Riigikogu.
Ali Fethi Okyar forms a new government in Turkey (3rd government).
The Mongolian People's Republic is proclaimed.
The Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.
George Gershwin's musical Lady Be Good (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and including the number "Fascinating Rhythm") has its Broadway premiere in New York City.
German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of at least 24 young males in Hanover.
In Germany, Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison after serving nine months for his crucial role in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash: An airliner crashes soon after takeoff from London's Croydon Airport killing all eight people aboard. This leads to the first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident ever held in the United Kingdom.
Albania becomes a republic.
Babbs Switch fire: A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma, United States, kills 36 people, mostly small children.
American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.
Month: December
Day: 30
Category: Science