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.
- February 5, 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
- February 14, 1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
- March 3, 1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
- 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 9, 1924 – In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.
- 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 4, 1924 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
- September 9, 1924 – Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- October 25, 1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party’s hopes of re-election.
- 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 30, 1924 – Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
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