1924 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1924?
- January 25, 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- January 26, 1924 – Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
- February 5, 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
- February 8, 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
- February 14, 1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
- February 22, 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
- March 3, 1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
- March 16, 1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
- March 25, 1924 – On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- April 1, 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- May 11, 1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
- June 10, 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- July 24, 1924 – Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- August 4, 1924 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
- October 2, 1924 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
- October 7, 1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
- October 25, 1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party’s hopes of re-election.
- November 27, 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- December 24, 1924 – Albania becomes a republic.
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