Editing 1924 (section)

=== 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.