What Happened in 1924 — Events, Births & Deaths

Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.

Six days after his death, Vladimir Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum.

Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.

The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.

The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

The Victorian Football League created the Brownlow Medal to honour deceased administrator Charles Brownlow, now awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League.

The Ottoman Caliphate is abolished, when the Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman dynasty is deposed. The last remnant of the old monarchy gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.

The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.

A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.

In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.

On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.

A.E.K., a major Greek multi-sport club, is established in Athens by Greek refugees from Constantinople.

Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).

The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania. It would come back to Germany in 1939.

J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.

Hope Development School fire kills 24 people, mostly disabled children.

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.

British Mount Everest expedition: British mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory go missing.

Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.

The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehicles travelling between Johor and Singapore.

Eric Liddell wins 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.

Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.

The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

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.

The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.

Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.

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.

The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

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).

Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.

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.

The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy.

In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

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.

The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

Albania becomes a republic.