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January - June, 1924 Timeline

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January

03 - British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.
09 - Ford Motor Company Stock equals $1 billion
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12 - History of Science Society organized at Boston.
13 - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89.
13 - Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections.
14 - Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy.
21 - Vladymir Lenin dies; Stalin wins the resulting power struggle and rules as Soviet dictator until his death in 1953.
21 - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53.
22 - Baldwin govt resigns in England.
22 - Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens.
22 - KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions.
24 - Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad.
25 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France.
27 - Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square.
27 - Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier.

February

01 - Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens.
01 - New British MacDonald govt recognizes USSR.
03 - USA Woodrow Wilson, 28th pres 1913-1921), dies at his home in Wash at 67.
04 - George Kelly's "Show-Off," premieres in NYC.
04 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France.
07 - Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR.
08 - USACrime Gas chamber is used for first time for an execution.
12 - USAMusic George Gershwin, as composer/pianist, premieres his 'Rhapsody in Blue' backed by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, at New York City's Aeolian Hall.
18 - USAMusic Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist with The Wolverines, cuts his first sides for the Gennett Co.
18 - Teapot Dome Scandal US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal.
26 - Trial against Hitler in Munich begins.
28 - US begins intervention in Honduras.

March

01 - Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted.
03 - German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed.
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04 - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny.
05 - King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief.
05 - Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM.
06 - British Labour govt cuts military budget.
08 - Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah.
11 - 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins.
12 - Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies.
13 - German Republic day.
17 - Aviation Four U.S. Army Douglas biplanes embark from Seattle, CA, on first around-the-world flight. Only two of the planes make it back to Seattle successfully. Travel time, including 57 stops, is 351 hours.
17 - Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition.
17 - Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats.
17 - Eugene O'Neill's Welded, premieres in NYC.
21 - Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US.
23 - USAFilm Douglas Fairbanks' elaborate swashbuckler film The Thief of Bagdad premieres, and eventually becomes one the the decade's biggest hits, earning $3 million for United Artists.
24 - Greece becomes a republic.
27 - Canada recognizes USSR.
27 - Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83.
27 - New French government of Poincar‚ begins.
28 - Radio WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions.
29 - Bayern & Vatican reach accord.
31 - London public transport strike ends.

April

00 - The Dawes Plan + seeks to stabilize German currency and promote economic revitalization.
01 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced for five years for failed Munich Putsch of nov 1923.Gen Ludendorff acquitted.
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01 - Imperial Airways forms in Britain.
06 - Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament.
11 - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections.
11 - Radio WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions.
15 - Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead.
16 - USAFilm Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M.G.M.) film studios formed by the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Co.
16 - Child labor laws strengthened in Holland.
19 - Sports 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2.
22 - Hague Chambers of Commerce forms.
28 - 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster.

May

02 - Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR.
04 - German Republic election fascists & communists win.
10 - J. Edgar Hoover acting head of Bureau of Investigations later FBI job becomes permanent on 1924c1210.
19 - The first transmission of pictures over telephone wires is publicly demonstrated by Bell System engineers.
21 - USACrime Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap and kill 13-year-old Bobby Franks for fun, in Chicago.
26 - Pres Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration.
30 - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists.
31 - USACrime Leopold and Loeb confess to thrill murder; defended by Clarence Darrow

June

02 - Snyder Act Congress declares American Indians to be U.S. citizens.
03 - Austria Czech novelist and short story writer Franz Kafka dies at 40 in obscurity.
03 - Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service.
10 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists.
10 - 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland.
13 - Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier.
14 - Radio WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY.
15 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile.
15 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens.
23 - 8 month Twenste textile strike ends.
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26 - After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic.
26 - Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway.
28 - Disaster Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93.
30 - Will Rogers rejoins Zigfeild Follies


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