1924 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1924?
- January 16, 1924 – Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
- January 22, 1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- February 5, 1924 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 1924 – In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100 meters freestyle swimming competition with a time of 57.4 seconds.
- March 3, 1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
- March 25, 1924 – On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- April 18, 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
- May 10, 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
- May 21, 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a “thrill killing”.
- May 29, 1924 – AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
- May 31, 1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an “integral part of the Republic of China”, whose “sovereignty” therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
- June 2, 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- June 10, 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- June 16, 1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
- June 26, 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- August 28, 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- September 17, 1924 – The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
- October 27, 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- December 19, 1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
- December 20, 1924 – Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
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