Important Historical Events of the year 1924, Year 1924 in History
List of 1924 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1924
What happened in the year 1924?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 22, 1924 | Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| January 25, 1924 | The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games. |
| January 27, 1924 | Six days after his death Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum. |
| February 1, 1924 | Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution. |
| February 5, 1924 | The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. |
| February 8, 1924 | Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada. |
| February 12, 1924 | George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano. |
| February 14, 1924 | The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). |
| March 3, 1924 | The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk. |
| March 3, 1924 | The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy. |
| March 8, 1924 | A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. |
| March 16, 1924 | In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy. |
| March 25, 1924 | On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic. |
| April 1, 1924 | Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail. |
| April 1, 1924 | The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. |
| April 8, 1924 | Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms. |
| April 24, 1924 | Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term). |
| May 8, 1924 | The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania. |
| May 10, 1924 | J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 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 31, 1924 | Hope Development School fire kills 24 people, mostly disabled children. |
| June 2, 1924 | U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. |
| June 10, 1924 | Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome. |
| June 26, 1924 | The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years. |
| July 10, 1924 | Paavo Nurmi won the 1,500 and 5,000 m races with just an hour between them at the Paris Olympics. |
| July 11, 1924 | Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on a Sunday. |
| July 24, 1924 | Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece. |
| August 4, 1924 | Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established. |
| August 28, 1924 | The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. |
| September 9, 1924 | Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. |
| September 17, 1924 | The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits. |
| September 28, 1924 | The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army. |
| October 7, 1924 | Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time. |
| October 25, 1924 | The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later. |
| October 27, 1924 | The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. |
| 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). |
| November 4, 1924 | Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States. |
| November 23, 1924 | Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times. |
| November 26, 1924 | The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy. |
| November 27, 1924 | In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. |
| December 1, 1924 | The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, plays their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility. |
| December 19, 1924 | The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. |
| December 19, 1924 | German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders. |
| December 20, 1924 | Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison. |
| December 24, 1924 | Albania becomes a republic. |