Historical Events in 1924

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• Jan 1 Grossdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft/Volkische Block replaces NSDAP
• Jan 6 Francis Poulenc's ballet "Les Biches", choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska, and danced by the Ballets Russe, premieres in Monte Carlo
• Jan 11 A republic is proclaimed in Greece; King George II is deposed and Eleutherios Venizelo is named Prime Minister of the Greek National Assembly

• Jan 12 History of Science Society organized at Boston
• Jan 13 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
• Jan 15 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms

• Jan 22 Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
• Jan 22 KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions

• Jan 24 Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad (changed back in 1991)

• Jan 26 American skater Charles Jewtraw claims the first ever Winter Olympic gold medal; wins 500m speed skating event in 44.0s at the Chamonix Games in France

• Jan 27 Clas Thunberg of Finland claims 3 gold medals in one day when he wins the 1,500m, 5,000m and all-round speed skating events at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; won 5,000m the day before
• Jan 27 Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier
• Jan 27 The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rome, agreeing to the annexation of independent Free State of Fiume by Italy (now Rijeka, Croatia)
• Jan 27 The Natal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Association jointly organise a mass meeting in Durban, South Africa in opposition to the Class Areas Bill
• Jan 27 Vladimir Lenin is placed in a Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
• Jan 29 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
• Jan 29 Swiss team of Denis Vaucher (C), Alfred Aufdenblatten, Antoine Julen & Alfons Julen win the military patrol gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first version of the biathlon
• Jan 30 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins men's figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first to successfully defend his Summer Olympic title (1920) at the Winter Games
• Jan 30 Great Britain clinch inaugural Olympic curling gold medal with a 46-4 win over France at the Chamonix Games
• Jan 30 Norway’s Thorleif Haug claims first of 3 gold medals at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; wins 50k cross country in a Norwegian sweep of the medals; also 18k and Nordic combined champion
• Jan 30 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW
• Jan 31 Austrians Helene Engelmann & Alfred Berger win the pairs skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; beat Finnish pair Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson by just 0.39 points
• Jan 31 Herma Szabo of Austria wins the ladies figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; only women's event at the Games
• Feb 1 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
• Feb 1 Ramsay MacDonald's incoming Labour government formally recognizes the Soviet Union
• Feb 2 International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
• Feb 2 Norway’s Thorleif Haug takes the cross-country double at the Chamonix Winter Olympics when he wins the 18k event; Haug also 50k gold medalist
• Feb 3 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
• Feb 3 Canada beats United States, 6-1 to retain the Olympic ice hockey gold medal (won at 1920 Summer Games) at the Chamonix Games; Canadian LW Harry Watson top scores with 46 points
• Feb 3 Switzerland claims the inaugural Olympic bobsleigh gold medal at the Chamonix Games, ahead of Great Britain and Belgium
• Feb 4 George Kelly's play "Show-Off," premieres in New York City
• Feb 4 Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway wins ski jumping gold at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; in 1936 he earns a silver medal in sailing at Berlin Summer Games
• Feb 4 Norway sweeps the medals in the Nordic combined event at the inaugural Chamonix Winter Olympics; Thorleif Haug wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Thoralf Strømstad & Johan Grøttumsbråten
• Feb 5 1st Winter Olympic Games close at Chamonix, France

• Feb 5 Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips"
• Feb 7 Benito Mussolini's Italian government exchanges diplomats with USSR
• Feb 8 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
• Feb 9 Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR

• Feb 12 George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback" premieres in NYC

• Feb 15 A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill

• Feb 24 Greek parliament proclaims republic
• Feb 25 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)

• Feb 27 Belgium's Theunis government falls
• Feb 28 US begins intervention in Honduras
• Mar 1 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
• Mar 3 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
• Mar 3 Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" premieres in Dublin
• Mar 4 The song "Happy Birthday To You" is published by Claydon Sunny
• Mar 5 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
• Mar 5 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
• Mar 6 British Labour government cuts military budget
• Mar 8 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
• Mar 9 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
• Mar 11 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
• Mar 11 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London
• Mar 16 The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.

• Mar 17 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
• Mar 17 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats

• Mar 20 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
• Mar 21 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
• Mar 21 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US

• Mar 24 Greece becomes a republic
• Mar 25 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
• Mar 25 Stanley Cup Final, Ottawa Auditorium, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) beat Calgary Tigers (WCHL), 3-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
• Mar 26 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan" opens in London
• Mar 27 Canada recognizes USSR
• Mar 27 New French government of Poincaré begins
• Mar 28 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
• Mar 29 Bavaria & Vatican reach accord
• Mar 31 Croydon Airport, London: Imperial Airways established
• Mar 31 London public transport strike ends
• Apr 1 Adolf Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor for "Beer Hall Putsch" but General Ludendorff acquitted
• Apr 1 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
• Apr 1 Imperial Airways forms in Britain
• Apr 1 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

• Apr 6 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
• Apr 6 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
• Apr 6 Völkische Block (Nazis) receives 17.8% of vote in Bavaria
• Apr 8 South African State pass the Industrial Conciliation Act No 11: provides for job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions, prohibited registration of black trade unions
• Apr 10 Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
• Apr 11 1st men's college swimming championships begin
• Apr 11 Socialists win Danish parliamentary elections
• Apr 11 WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
• Apr 12 WLS-AM in Chicago begins radio transmissions
• Apr 13 Greek plebiscite for a republic
• Apr 15 Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain, Belgium, 1 dead
• Apr 15 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• Apr 15 WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
• Apr 16 1st radio-transmission of wireless: Mattheus Passion
• Apr 16 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
• Apr 17 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B Mayer Co merged to form Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
• Apr 18 1st crossword puzzle book published by Simon & Schuster
• Apr 19 "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago
• Apr 22 Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
• Apr 23 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley, London
• Apr 27 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
• Apr 28 119 die in coal mine disaster at Benwood, West Virginia
• May 1 Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes President of Greece

• May 2 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR

• May 3 Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber
• May 4 German Republic election: fascists & communists win
• May 4 VIII Summer Olympic Games open at Olympic Stadium of Colombes, Paris, France
• May 5 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike in the Netherlands
• May 7 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana

• May 8 Memel territories given to Lithuania
• May 8 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut

• May 11 Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election

• May 16 108°F (42°C) in Blitzen, Oregon
• May 21 Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap and kill Bobby Franks to demonstrate their supposed intellectual superiority by committing a "perfect crime"
• May 24 Canada grants women the right to vote in federal elections, though First Nations women still unable to without giving up their status [1]
• May 26 US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law restricting immigration
• May 29 AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks
• May 30 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
• May 31 China recognizes the USSR
• Jun 2 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as Snyder Act), declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens [1]
• Jun 3 Gila Wilderness Area established by US Forest Service

• Jun 9 "Jelly-Roll Blues" is recorded by American jazz pioneer pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton
• Jun 10 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
• Jun 11 Bene Brak Palestine founded
• Jun 11 Koos Vorrink elected President of Arbeiders Jeugd Organisatie (AJC) Socialist Youth Movement
• Jun 13 Bene Berak, Palestine, founded
• Jun 13 Gaston Doumergue elected as the 1st protestant French President
• Jun 13 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
• Jun 14 Test Cricket debuts of English players Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate in 1st Test England v South Africa at Edgbaston
• Jun 14 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany, NY
• Jun 15 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal

• Jun 15 J. Edgar Hoover assumes leadership of the FBI
• Jun 16 South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7

• Jun 21 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
• Jun 23 8 month Twenste textile strike ends
• Jun 26 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
• Jun 26 Theatrical revue "Ziegfeld Follies of 1924", featuring Billie Burke and W.C. Fields, opens at the New Amsterdam Theatre, NYC
• Jun 28 Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's
• Jun 28 Tornado strikes Sandusky and Lorain, Ohio, killing 93
• Jun 30 England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's

• Jul 1 Dircet regular transcontinental airmail service between New York and San Francisco forms
• Jul 5 Military revolt in Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Jul 6 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
• Jul 7 American Robert LeGendre sets then long jump world record at 25' 5½" in Paris, France
• Jul 10 Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
• Jul 10 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
• Jul 11 Muslim-Hindu rebellion in Delhi, India
• Jul 13 Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
• Jul 16 Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
• Jul 16 NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
• Jul 17 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
• Jul 18 KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi
• Jul 20 Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris
• Jul 20 Tehran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people
• Jul 27 VIII Summer Olympic Games close in Paris, France
• Jul 29 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
• Aug 1 MLB Brooklyn Robins pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out a MLB record 7 consecutive batters, and 14 overall in 4-0 win over visiting Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field
• Aug 2 A's 1st baseman Joe Hauser sets AL record of 14 total bases in a game; 3 HRs and a double as Philadelphia beats Cleveland Indians, 12-4 at Dunn Field

• Aug 5 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News
• Aug 8 British-Russian trade agreement signed
• Aug 11 1st newsreel pictures of US presidential candidates were taken
• Aug 16 Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
• Aug 16 Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
• Aug 17 French-German trade agreement signed
• Aug 18 France begins withdrawing troops from the Ruhr
• Aug 23 Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
• Aug 25 International maritime treaty drawn

• Aug 26 The Catastrophe of Smyrna: known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor. (August 13 OS)
• Aug 28 Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union
• Aug 29 Germany's Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan, which sought to solve the WWI reparations problem

• Aug 31 Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
• Sep 1 Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
• Sep 2 Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart's operetta "Rose-Marie" opens to rave reviews at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 577 performances
• Sep 3 Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)

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