Events Date 1924 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Sep 3 Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
Sep 3 L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?" premieres in NYC

Assassination Attempt on Mussolini

Sep 6 Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails

Sep 6 Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships
Sep 8 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
Sep 9 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii
Sep 10 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "the crime of the century"

Giants Destroy Braves 22-1

Sep 10 New York Giants rip Boston Braves, 22-1 at the Polo Grounds; future Baseball HOF infielder Frankie Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out

American League MVP

Sep 14 Walter Johnson selected as the American League MVP

Baseball Record

Sep 16 St. Cardinals future Baseball HOF first baseman Jim Bottomley sets MLB all-time single game RBI record of 12 in a 17-3 rout of Brooklyn Robins at Ebbets Field

Sep 17 Italy signs treaty of Rapallo
Sep 18 Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
Sep 20 Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
Sep 20 Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game
Sep 24 Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport

World Auto Speed Record

Sep 25 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 miles per hour

Sep 27 Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1
Sep 28 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
Sep 28 French government names General Serrail governor-general of Syria
Sep 28 General Plutarco Calles elected President of Mexico
Sep 29 Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
Sep 29 Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
Sep 30 Allies stop checking on German navy

Fokker F.VII

Oct 1 1st Dutch airliner, the Fokker F.VII takes off from Amsterdam for Batavia (Java) [1]

Paavo Nurmi World Records

Oct 1 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) & 5 mile (24:06.2) at Vilpuri, Russia

Runner nicknamed the Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi

Oct 2 League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva
Oct 3 King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
Oct 5 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News
Oct 7 Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms

Labour Lose to Conservatives

Oct 8 British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to Conservatives

Oct 9 Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in Chicago Illinois (now known as Soldier Field) is officially dedicated
Oct 11 Bureau of Surrealist Research opens in Paris, directed by Antonin Artaud, resource centre for surrealist writers

Symphony No. 0

Oct 12 Franz Moissl conducts 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's "Symphony No. 0" in Klosterneuburg, Austria

Oct 12 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow

Fall of Mecca

Oct 13 Mecca falls without struggle to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud

Oct 14 Arnold Schoeberg's opera "Die Gluckliche Hand" premieres in Vienna

Surrealist Manifesto

Oct 15 André Breton publishes his "Surrealist Manifesto" with Éditions du Sagittaire in Paris

Statue of Liberty

Oct 15 US President Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument

Red Grange's Amazing Game

Oct 18 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)

Oct 18 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
Oct 19 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
Oct 22 Toastmasters International is founded
Oct 24 Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
Oct 24 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"
Oct 27 The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union
Oct 28 French-Russian trade agreement signed

Taung Child

Oct 28 Miner M.de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child" in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus.

Oct 28 White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend

UK General Election

Oct 29 Labour minority government loses British parliamentary election to Conservatives led by Stanley Baldwin

Oct 29 Musical revue "Dixie to Broadway" opens at Broadhurst Theater
Oct 31 World Savings Day announced in Milan, Italy, by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks)
Nov 1 Boston Bruins officially join the NHL, becoming the first United States based team to enter the League; Montreal Maroons also join NHL, but only last until 1938
Nov 2 Sunday Express publishes first British crossword puzzle
Nov 4 California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)

Calvin Coolidge Elected

Nov 4 Calvin Coolidge is elected to a full term as President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate John W. Davis

Nov 4 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson one of the first two women elected US governor (of Texas) [See also Nellie Tayloe Ross, of Wyoming]
Nov 4 Nellie Tayloe Ross one of the first two women elected US governor (Wyoming) [See also Miriam (Ma) Ferguson, of Texas]
Nov 4 Stanley Baldwin becomes Britain's Prime Minister for a second time after a landslide victory over Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party
Nov 8 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
Nov 8 Fortune Theatre opens in London
Nov 10 Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
Nov 11 Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC
Nov 11 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated in San Francisco
Nov 12 Jewish school Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Hebron, Palestine
Nov 15 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
Nov 16 Cleveland Bulldogs lose, 12-7 to Frankford Yellow Jackets at Dunn Field; ends 31-game undefeated streak; NFL and major-league football record
Nov 21 British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin cancels Labour contract with USSR
Nov 22 Britain orders Egyptians out of Sudan
Nov 24 1st Dutch airliner, Fokker F.VII lands in Batavia (Java) after flying from Amsterdam
Nov 24 General Feng Yu-Hsiang, a warlord from the north of China, turns on his allies and seizes Peking
Nov 26 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
Nov 27 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)
Nov 27 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held
Nov 28 Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber
Nov 29 NHL's Montreal Forum opens
Nov 30 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
Nov 30 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh
Dec 1 "La Révolution surréaliste" publishes its first issue in Paris, edited by André Breton
Dec 1 Boston Bruins beat fellow expansion team Montreal Maroons, 2-1 at Boston Arena; first NHL game to be played in the United States
Dec 1 Plutarco Elías Calles becomes President of Mexico
Dec 2 British-German trade agreement signed
Dec 5 Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Tor Maple Leafs 10-5
Dec 7 German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose)
Dec 9 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
Dec 9 Netherlands & Hungary trade treaty signed
Dec 12 Spanish troops leave Morocco
Dec 13 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
Dec 14 Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma" premieres in Paris

Bingham Serves Shortest Term

Dec 16 Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the US Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in office, the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor

Archaeologist and Explorer Hiram Bingham

Vortex

Dec 16 Noël Coward's "Vortex" premieres in London

Playwright, Director and Singer Noël Coward

Dec 17 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
Dec 17 The Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Senators battle out the first scoreless game in NHL history; Jake Forbes (Hamilton) and Alex Connell (Ottawa) each record shutouts

Ponsford Test Debut

Dec 19 Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings

Last Rolls Silver Ghost

Dec 19 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

Engineer, Motoring and Aviation Pioneer Henry Royce

Hitler Freed from Prison

Dec 20 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early, having served only nine months of five-year sentence for "Beer Hall Putsch"

Dec 22 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
Dec 22 Philip Barry's play "The Youngest" premieres in NYC

The Last Laugh

Dec 23 German silent film classic "The Last Laugh" directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Emil Jannings is released

Dec 24 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
Dec 24 Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
Dec 24 Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th NYC
Dec 24 School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma, catches fire, 36 die

Judy Garland's Debut

Dec 26 Frances Gumm (later Judy Garland), age 2½, billed as 'Baby Frances', makes her show business debut at her father's vaudeville theater in Grand Rapids, Minnesota

Dec 27 Albania is declared a dictatorship under Ahmed Beg Zofu
Dec 27 The US signs a treaty with the Dominican Republic, which supersedes that of 1907: in July, the Us had withdrawn its Marines and ended its occupation