Editing 1924 (section)

==Events==

=== January ===
[[File:1924WOlympicPoster.jpg|240px|thumbnail|right|[[1924 Winter Olympics]]]]
{{Main article|January 1924}}
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Gopinath Saha]] shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir [[Charles Tegart]], the police commissioner of [[Calcutta]], and is arrested soon after.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Maya Gupta |author2=Amit Kumar Gupta |title=Defying Death: Struggle Against Imperialism and Feudalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShBuAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=Tulika |isbn=978-81-85229-41-6 |page=53 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151329/https://books.google.com/books?id=ShBuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 20]]&ndash;[[January 30|30]] &ndash; [[Kuomintang]] in China holds its [[1st National Congress of the Kuomintang|first National Congress]], initiating a policy of [[alliance]] with the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Chinese Communist Party]].
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone|The Earl of Athlone]] is appointed [[Governor-General of the Union of South Africa]], and [[High Commissioner for Southern Africa]].<ref name="Union">[http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_gg/ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508115458/http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_gg/ |date=May 8, 2023 }} (Accessed on 14 April 2017)</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Ramsay MacDonald]] becomes the first [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Marian B. McLeod |title=The Parliamentary Speaking of Ramsay MacDonald: A Study of His First Labour Government |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0FEjAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Literary Press |page=18 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151333/https://books.google.com/books?id=0FEjAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; The first [[Winter Olympics]], the [[1924 Winter Olympics]], open in [[Chamonix]], in the French [[Alps]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Norris McWhirter |title=Guinness Book of Records |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1qPWMsBz7sC |year=1983 |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |isbn=978-0-85112-260-1 |page=311 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151430/https://books.google.com/books?id=p1qPWMsBz7sC |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; Petrograd in the Soviet Union is renamed [[Leningrad]]; it will revert to [[Saint Petersburg]] in [[1991]].<ref>{{cite book |author=David M. Glantz |title=The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uRmAAAAMAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0-7006-1208-6 |page=8}}</ref>

=== February ===
{{Main article|February 1924}}
* [[February 1]] &ndash; The [[United Kingdom]] recognizes the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite news |date=2 February 1924 |title=Recognition of Russia |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19240202.2.35?end_date=02-02-1924&items_per_page=10&query=Russia&snippet=true&start_date=01-02-1924&title=ESD |access-date=28 December 2021 |work=Evening Star |page=4 |agency=Press Association |archive-date=December 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201214143/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19240202.2.35?end_date=02-02-1924&items_per_page=10&query=Russia&snippet=true&start_date=01-02-1924&title=ESD |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[GMT]]: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]].
* [[February 14]] &ndash; The [[Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company]] (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed [[IBM|International Business Machines (IBM)]].<ref>{{cite book|author=|title=Annual Report of the International Business Machines Corporation for the Year Ended ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANseAQAAMAAJ|year=1923|publisher=International Business Machines Corporation|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151331/https://books.google.com/books?id=ANseAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 22]]
** [[Treaty of Rome (1924)|Treaty of Rome]]: The [[Kingdom of Italy]] annexes the [[Free State of Fiume]], and the [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]] absorbs [[Sušak, Rijeka|Sušak]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office|title=British and Foreign State Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=htoMAQAAIAAJ|year=1932|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=762|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151338/https://books.google.com/books?id=htoMAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Calvin Coolidge]] becomes the first [[President of the United States]] to deliver a radio broadcast from the [[White House]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Arthur F. Fleser |title=A Rhetorical Study of the Speaking of Calvin Coolidge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4HyilaT0zGEC&pg=PA85 |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-88946-321-9 |pages=85 |publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151335/https://books.google.com/books?id=4HyilaT0zGEC&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main article|March 1924}}
* [[March 3]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Caliphate]], a remnant of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman monarchy]] [[Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate|abolished]] on November 1, 1922 and one of the historical claims of succession to the [[First Islamic state|Islamic State]] of [[Muhammad]], comes to an end with the deposition of the [[Abdülmecid II|Caliph]] of the [[Ottoman dynasty]]. This marks the end of an era, giving way to the drastic political transformations of [[Turkey]] introduced by [[Atatürk's reforms|reforms]] because of the President [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Öztürk, Fatih |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/12937 |title=The Ottoman Millet System |pages=71–86}} - Cited: p. 72</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[İsmet İnönü]] forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government).
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Horacio Vásquez]] wins the [[1924 Dominican Republic general election|Dominican Republic general election]], becoming president, coinciding with the end of [[United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916-1924)|United States military occupation]].<ref>[[Dieter Nohlen|Nohlen, D]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p247 {{ISBN|978-0-19-928357-6}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Jean Sibelius]] conducts the world premiere of his [[Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 7]] in [[Stockholm]].
* [[March 25]] &ndash; The [[Second Hellenic Republic]] is proclaimed in Greece.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wFDWqVnkvhsTndtvSoClrL8BI7vRxXKg8ztIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIfmAIHno4xZaiebsKTXkZGFzZyd4dunA0LfOa-Yg4kaY. |title=Newspaper of the Government - Issue 64 |date=25 March 1924 |work=Government Newspaper of the Hellenic State |access-date=18 August 2012 |archive-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009021338/http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wFDWqVnkvhsTndtvSoClrL8BI7vRxXKg8ztIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIfmAIHno4xZaiebsKTXkZGFzZyd4dunA0LfOa-Yg4kaY. |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; In France, the Third Ministry of [[Raymond Poincaré]] begins.<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert J. Young |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-24890-2 |title=France and the Origins of the Second World War |date=18 September 1996 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-24890-2 |pages=173 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-24890-2 |access-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-date=August 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811014301/https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-349-24890-2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== April ===
{{Main article|April 1924}}
* [[April 1]]
**[[Adolf Hitler]] is sentenced to 5 years in [[Landsberg Prison]] in Germany for his participation in the [[1923]] [[Beer Hall Putsch]] (he serves less than 9 months).
**The first revenue flight for Belgium's [[Sabena]] Airlines takes place.
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Italian general election, 1924]]: [[National Fascist Party|Fascist]]s win the elections in Italy with a two-thirds majority.
* [[April 13]] &ndash; The [[1924 Greek republic referendum|Greek republic referendum]] favors formation of the [[Second Hellenic Republic]].<ref>{{cite book |author=S. Steinberg |title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTPDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1074 |date=29 December 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-27079-4 |pages=1074 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151335/https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTPDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1074#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Metro Pictures Corporation]], [[Goldwyn Pictures]] and [[Louis B. Mayer Productions]] are merged to become [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]].
* [[April 23]] &ndash; The [[British Empire Exhibition]] opens in London; it is the largest [[colonial exhibition]], with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert A. Bickers|title=Britain in China: Community Culture and Colonialism, 1900-1949|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bllnAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-4697-1|page=65|access-date=April 9, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151947/https://books.google.com/books?id=bllnAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== May ===
{{Main article|May 1924}}
* [[May 4]] &ndash; The [[1924 Summer Olympics]] opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.<ref>{{cite book |author=David Wallechinsky |title=The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Athens 2004 Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYvPyVbjRpgC |year=2004 |publisher=Sport Media Pub. |isbn=978-1-894963-32-9 |page=2 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151956/https://books.google.com/books?id=TYvPyVbjRpgC |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Lithuania]] signs the [[Klaipėda Convention]] with the nations of the [[Conference of Ambassadors]], taking the [[Klaipėda Region]] from [[East Prussia]] and making it into an autonomous region.<ref>{{cite book|author=Georg von Rauch|title=The Baltic States: The Years of Independence : Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 1917-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emBIdi4LPz8C&pg=PA104|year=1974|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-0-903983-00-6|pages=104|access-date=April 9, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152120/https://books.google.com/books?id=emBIdi4LPz8C&pg=PA104|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; In the United States, [[J. Edgar Hoover]] is appointed head of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Athan G. Theoharis |author2=Susan Rosenfeld |author3=Richard G. Powers |title=The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnQduXa4JdoC&pg=PA363 |year=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-89774-991-6 |pages=363 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152224/https://books.google.com/books?id=VnQduXa4JdoC&pg=PA363 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Mercedes-Benz]] is formed by the merging of companies owned by [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Karl Benz]].
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Harry Grindell Matthews]] attempts to demonstrate his "[[death ray]]" to the War Office in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book |title=Astronautics & Aeronautics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F7PGAAAAIAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |page=77 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152224/https://books.google.com/books?id=F7PGAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[May 26]] &ndash; The [[Immigration Act of 1924]], commonly known as the ''Johnson-Reed Act'', becomes effective. The act modifies the National Origins Quotas introduced in the [[Immigration Act of 1921]]. 
* [[May 30]] &ndash; Italian socialist leader [[Giacomo Matteotti]] speaks out against [[Fascism]]. A few days later he is kidnapped and murdered in Rome.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Allan Todd |author2=Sally Waller |title=History for the IB Diploma Paper 2 Authoritarian States (20th Century) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 |date=10 September 2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-55889-2 |pages=39 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151953/https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== June ===
{{Main article|June 1924}}
* [[June 2]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Calvin Coolidge]] signs the [[Indian Citizenship Act]] into law, granting [[citizenship]] to all [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] born within the territorial limits of the United States.<ref>{{cite book |author=Paul C Rosier |title=Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9X7MWwmOSIC&pg=PA301 |date=1 March 2010 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-05452-3 |pages=301 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152201/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9X7MWwmOSIC&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Ernst Alexanderson]] sends the first [[Fax|facsimile]] across the [[Atlantic Ocean]],<ref>{{cite book |title=The National Inventors Hall of Fame: Dedicated to the Spirit of Invention |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9CMfanXhIAC&pg=PA52 |year=1984 |publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office |pages=52 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152633/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9CMfanXhIAC&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> which goes to his father in [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krebs |first=Albin |date=May 15, 1975 |title=Dr. Ernst Alexanderson, Radio Pioneer, Dies at 97 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/dr-ernst-alexanderson-radio-pioneer-dies-at-97.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730104920/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/dr-ernst-alexanderson-radio-pioneer-dies-at-97.html |archive-date=July 30, 2017 |access-date=March 3, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
* [[June 7]]&ndash;[[June 16|16]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Steiner]] delivers his Agriculture Course at [[Koberwitz]] beginning of the [[organic agriculture]] movement.<ref name=FirstOA>{{cite journal |last=Paull |first=John |title=Attending the First Organic Agriculture Course: Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course at Koberwitz, 1924 |journal=European Journal of Social Sciences |year=2011 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=64–70 |url=https://www.academia.edu/9149070 |access-date=August 24, 2019 |archive-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323023447/https://www.academia.edu/9149070 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[George Mallory]] and [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]] are last seen "going strong for the top" of [[Mount Everest]] by teammate [[Noel Odell]] at 12:50&nbsp;P.M.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-06 |title=Remains of Sandy Irvine believed found on Everest after 100 years |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/sandy-irvine-body-found-everest |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Adventure |language=en}}</ref> The two [[Mountaineering|mountaineers]] are never seen alive again.
* [[June 13]] &ndash; In Hungary, a devastating [[tornado]], "Wildkansas", strikes, in 3 hours leaving a 500–1500m wide and 70&nbsp;km long path of destruction from landfall at Bia to its end near [[Vác]], completely destroying the village of [[Páty]]. 9 people are killed, 50 injured and many left homeless by one of the strongest tornadoes ever not only in Hungary but in Europe, estimated as [[Fujita scale|F]]4.
*[[June 20]] The [[FIDE]] was founded.
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[J. B. M. Hertzog]] becomes the third [[Prime Minister of South Africa]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Colin Martin Tatz |title=Shadow and Substance in South Africa: A Study in Land and Franchise Policies Affecting Africans, 1910-1960 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNzAAAAMAAJ |year=1962 |publisher=University of Natal Press |page=211 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152646/https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNzAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>


=== July ===
{{Main article|July 1924}}
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Paavo Nurmi]] of Finland wins the 1,500 and 5,000 m runs within two hours at the [[1924 Summer Olympics|Paris Olympics]].<ref>{{cite book| author=Lauri Pihkala & Martti Jukola | title=Olympialaiskisat ennen ja Pariisissa 1924. 2. osa | location=Porvoo | publisher=WSOY | year=1924 | language=fi}}</ref>
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24)]] comes to an end. The constitutional government headed by General [[Horacio Vásquez|Horacio Vázquez]], elected in the elections held in March, is established.
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Napalpí massacre]]: Around 400 indigenous people of [[Toba people|Toba]] ethnicity are massacred in [[Argentina]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/287295953.pdf |title=De las fosas al panteón: contrasentidos en las honras de los indios revividos |language=en |author=Carlos Salamanca |website=core.ac.uk |publisher=Revista Colombiana de Antropología |date=2008 |pages=7–39 |access-date=14 January 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115224352/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/287295953.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== August ===
{{Main article|August 1924}}
* [[August 16]] &ndash; The [[Dawes Plan]] is signed in Paris, temporarily resolving German reparations dispute.<ref>{{cite book |author=Inter-allied Conference on Reparations and Inter-allied Debts |title=Proceedings of the London Reparation Conference July and August 1924 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-akDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320 |year=1924 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |pages=320 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152647/https://books.google.com/books?id=-akDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[August Uprising]]: [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] rises against rule by the [[Soviet Union]] in an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die.<ref>{{cite book |title=Russian Studies in History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mPckAQAAMAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe, Incorporated |page=14 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152950/https://books.google.com/books?id=mPckAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== September ===
{{Main article|September 1924}}
* [[September 9]]
** The [[Hanapepe massacre]] occurs on [[Kauai]], Hawaii.<ref>{{cite book |author=Moon-Kie Jung |title=The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Working Class |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MV4fAQAAMAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=University of Michigan |isbn=978-0-599-63406-0 |page=69 |access-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152718/https://books.google.com/books?id=MV4fAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** The [[Eight-hour day|8-hour work day]] is introduced in Belgium.
* [[September 9]]&ndash;[[September 11|11]] &ndash; The [[1924 Kohat riots|Kohat riots]] break out in India.<ref>{{cite book |author=L. F. Rushbrook-Williams |title=India in 1924-25: A Statement Prepared for Presentation to Parliament in Accordance with the Requirements of the 26th Section of the Government of India Act (5 & 6 Geo. V, Chap 61). |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBG2AAAAIAAJ |year=1925 |publisher=Government of India Central Publication Branch |page=22 |access-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152716/https://books.google.com/books?id=lBG2AAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 28]] &ndash; U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the [[first aerial circumnavigation]] of the globe. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to [[Seattle]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lumen Winter|author2=Glenn Degner|title=Minute Epics of Flight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNJ-yMIIwogC|year=1933|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|page=121|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152845/https://books.google.com/books?id=nNJ-yMIIwogC|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== October ===
{{Main article|October 1924}}
* October &ndash; The skull of the [[Taung Child]] is discovered.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Donald E. Johanson |author2=Donald C. Johanson |author3=Blake Edgar |title=From Lucy to Language |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-VKEjAbpggcC&pg=PT146 |year=1996 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-81023-2 |pages=146 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153506/https://books.google.com/books?id=-VKEjAbpggcC&pg=PT146#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 2]] &ndash; The [[Geneva Protocol (1924)|Geneva Protocol]] is adopted by the [[League of Nations]] Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified.
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Rai Radio 1|1-RO]] begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy.
*[[October 9]] &ndash; Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] (now known as [[Soldier Field]]) is officially dedicated.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-60000-voice-citys-spir/69950747/ "60,000 Voice City's Spirit at Stadium Fete"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207145509/https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-60000-voice-citys-spir/69950747/ |date=February 7, 2024 }}, ''Chicago Tribune'', October 10, 1924, p. 5</ref>
* [[October 10]] &ndash; Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by [[Tasmania]]n [[National Party of Australia|Nationalist]] senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.
* [[October 12]]&ndash;[[October 15|15]] &ndash; [[Zeppelin]] ''[[USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)|LZ-126]]'' makes a [[transatlantic flight|transatlantic]] delivery flight from [[Friedrichshafen]], Germany, to [[Lakehurst, New Jersey]].
* [[October 15]] &ndash; The first [[Surrealist Manifesto]] is published, in which [[André Breton]] defines the movement as "pure psychic [[surrealist automatism|automatism]]".<ref>{{cite book|author=J. H. Matthews|title=The Surrealist Mind|publisher=Susquehanna University Press|year=1991|isbn=9780945636069|page=31}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Sweden's Prime Minister]] [[Ernst Trygger]] and his cabinet, is replaced by [[Hjalmar Branting]] and his third and last government.
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Ibn Saud|Abdul Aziz]], founder of [[Saudi Arabia]], declares himself protector of holy places in [[Mecca]].{{cn|date=January 2024}}
* [[October 25]]
**The British press publishes the [[Zinoviev letter]], released the previous day by the Foreign Office.<ref>{{cite book |author=Adrian Smith |title=The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-1931 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFnHxuuT4FAC&pg=PA308 |year=1996 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-7146-4169-0 |pages=308 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153727/https://books.google.com/books?id=JFnHxuuT4FAC&pg=PA308#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> This purports to be a directive from [[Grigory Zinoviev]], head of the [[Communist International]] in Moscow, to the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]].
**Authorities of the [[British Raj]] in India arrest [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] and jail him for the next 2{{frac|1|2}} years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2832030|title=Subhash Bose's letters to Sarat Bose from Mandalay Prison|website=Indian Culture|access-date=October 11, 2023|archive-date=October 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015095127/https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2832030|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; The [[Uzbek SSR]] joins the Soviet Union.

=== November ===
{{Main article|November 1924}}
* November &ndash; The last known sighting of a [[California grizzly bear]] is recorded, by Colonel John R. White at Sequoia National Park.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Hunter-Trader-Trapper|title=California Grizzly Bear|publisher=F.J. and W.F. Heer|year=1925|volume=50|page=34}}</ref>
* [[November 4]]
** [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
** [[1924 United States presidential election]]: Republican [[Calvin Coolidge]] defeats Democrat [[John W. Davis]] and Progressive [[Robert M. La Follette Sr.]]
** [[Stanley Baldwin]] becomes [[Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]] again
* [[November 10]] &ndash; The [[Trial of the 149]] begins in [[Estonia]], eventually resulting in the conviction of 129 communists, including several members of the [[Riigikogu]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Edward Hallett Carr |title=Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEVAQAAMAAJ |year=1964 |publisher=Macmillan |page=284 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153509/https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEVAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 19]] &ndash; Major-General Sir [[Lee Stack]], British [[Governor-General]] of the [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]] and [[Sirdar]] of the Egyptian Army, is shot in Cairo by a gang of Egyptian nationalist students, dying the following day.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with his sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916–1937|last=Chamberlain|first=Austen<!--|authorlink=Austen Chamberlain-->|editor=Self, Robert C.|year=1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-55157-9|page=300}}</ref>
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Ali Fethi Okyar]] forms a new government in [[Turkey]] (3rd government).
* [[November 26]] &ndash; The [[Mongolian People's Republic]] is proclaimed.<ref>{{cite book |title=Uralic and Altaic Series |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jo1NAQAAMAAJ |year=1960 |publisher=Indiana University |page=5 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153518/https://books.google.com/books?id=jo1NAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== December ===
{{Main article|December 1924}}
* [[December 1]] &ndash; A Soviet-backed communist [[1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt]] fails in [[Estonia]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Newsletter from Behind the Iron Curtain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtAjAQAAMAAJ |year=1973 |publisher=Estonian Information Center |page=36 |access-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153500/https://books.google.com/books?id=jtAjAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 19]] &ndash; German serial killer [[Fritz Haarmann]] is sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of at least 24 young males in [[Hanover]].
* [[December 20]] &ndash; In Germany, [[Adolf Hitler]] is released from Landsberg Prison<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nicholls |first1=David |last2=Nicholls |first2=Gill |title=Adolf Hitler: A Biographical Companion |year=2000 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-87436-965-6 |page=153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8L42KtTrw0C&pg=PA153 |language=en |access-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153604/https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8L42KtTrw0C&pg=PA153 |url-status=live }}</ref> after serving nine months for his crucial role in the [[Beer Hall Putsch]] of [[1923]].
* [[December 24]]
** [[1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash]]: An airliner crashes soon after takeoff from London's [[Croydon Airport]] killing all eight people aboard. This leads to the first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident ever held in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|location=London|title=Aeroplane Crash at Purley |date=27 December 1924 |page=10E|issue=43844}}</ref>
** [[Albania]] becomes a [[republic]].
** [[Babbs Switch fire]]: A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in [[Babbs, Oklahoma]], United States, kills 36 people, mostly small children.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; American astronomer [[Edwin Hubble]] announces that [[Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda]], previously believed to be a [[nebula]], is actually another [[galaxy]], and that the [[Milky Way]] is only one of many such galaxies in the [[universe]].<ref>{{cite book |author=William R. Nes |title=Lipids in Evolution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLPfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4684-3683-9 |pages=8 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153517/https://books.google.com/books?id=NLPfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

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* Spring &ndash; Francophone explorer, spiritualist and former operatic soprano [[Alexandra David-Néel]], disguised as a male pilgrim, makes a 2-month stay in the forbidden city of [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]], Tibet.<ref>''My Journey to Lhasa'' (1927).</ref>
* Autumn &ndash; In the United States, the final raid of the [[Renegade period of the Apache Wars]] takes place, bringing the [[American Indian Wars]] to a close, after 315 years.
* [[Slavery in Iraq]] is abolished.<ref>Gordon, M. (1989). Slavery in the Arab world. New York: New Amsterdam.</ref>{{Page needed|date=October 2023}}
* The International Union of Official Organizations for Tourist [[Propaganda]] is established.<ref>{{cite book |author=N. Jayapalan |title=Introduction To Tourism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFWjoeVCLk0C&pg=PA181 |year=2001 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist |isbn=978-81-7156-977-9 |pages=181}}</ref>
* [[Earl W. Bascom]], rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at [[Stirling, Alberta|Stirling]], [[Alberta]], Canada.
* The [[Temporary Slavery Commission]] is created by the [[League of Nations]].<ref>Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. USA: AltaMira Press. 100-121</ref>