Editing 1924 (section)

=== 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>