1924 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1924?
- January 26, 1924 – Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
- February 1, 1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
- 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).
- 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.
- April 1, 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- April 15, 1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 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 11, 1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
- May 21, 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a “thrill killing”.
- 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 10, 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- June 26, 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- July 24, 1924 – Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- August 28, 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- November 11, 1924 – Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
- November 27, 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- December 19, 1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
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