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.
- January 26, 1924 – Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
- 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 1, 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- April 18, 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
- May 8, 1924 – the Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
- 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”.
- 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 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 22, 1924 – Toastmasters International is founded.
- October 25, 1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party’s hopes of re-election.
- October 31, 1924 – World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
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