July - December, 1924 TimelineJuly00 - Sports 1924 Olympics in Paris
05 - Military revolt in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
06 - 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England.
10 - Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam.
10 - Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim.
12 - USA Missing Miahigeni Pastur found in Battle Creek with "KKK" branded on his back
16 - Conference over German recovery payments begins in London.
27 - 8th Olympic games closes in Paris.
August00 - USAPolitics Despite serious illness Samuel Gompers urges the American Federation of Labor Executive Council to support Senator Robert LaFollette's independent campaign for president, if only to send protest message to the traditional parties. LaFollete polls almost 5 million votes in the election, but carries only his home state of Wisconsin, thus seriously dimming the prospects of an independent labor party.
05 - Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts.
08 - British-Russian trade agreement signed.
11 - 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken.
16 - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London.
17 - French-German trade agreement signed.
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18 - France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied.
23 - Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century.
28 - USAFilm John Ford's film The Iron Horse premiers
29 - German Republic day accepts Dawes plan.
September03 - Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai).
06 - Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
09 - USA National Defense Test Day. Broadcasters and the military join for a demonstration of how radio can link the country together in the event of an emergency.
10 - Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder.
17 - Italy signs treaty of Rapallo.
24 - Radio KFRC, San Francisco, inagural broadcast
24 - Manuel Estrada Cabrera, former dictator of Guatemala, dies in prison.
24 - Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport.
25 - Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH.
28 - Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico.
28 - 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops.
29 - Santo Domingo joins League of Nations.
30 - Allies stop checking on German navy.
October01 - Aviation Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia).
03 - King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne.
05 - 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News.
13 - USAFilm Buster Keaton's classic comedy The Navigator premieres.
15 - Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument.
18 - Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs).
21 - KLM Fokker's F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies.
November00 - USA American Federation of Labor convention adopts resolution describing Sacco & Vanzetti as "victims of race and national prejudice and class hatred."
02 - USAPolitics Calvin Coolidge wins three-way presidential election.
02 - Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle.
07 - USA A stock market boom that began early in the decade hits a five-year high on this date, with 2.33 million shares traded on the New York exchange.
09 - USAPolitics Nellie Ross in Wyoming elected she is the first woman governor in U.S.; inaugurated jan 05 1925.
09 - Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who fought former president Wilson on the issues of the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, dies.
09 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas).
21 - British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR.
22 - England orders Egyptians out of Sudan.
26 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed.
30 - RCA first transmits pictures by wireless telegraph from London to New York.
December00 - Samuel Gompers attends the Pan American Federation of Labor meeting in Mexico City. He is taken ill on December 08 and is rushed back to El Paso, Texas, where he dies.
01 - Calles becomes president of Mexico.
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02 - USA Scandal created when press reveals that film star Charlie Chaplin has married 16-year-old Lita Grey.
08 - USA James B. Duke founds Duke University
09 - Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president.
13 - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74.
13 - Radio KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions.
16 - Noel Coward's "Vortex," premieres in London.
17 - USA Bernard Shaw's Candida opens in NY
17 - 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY.
20 - Adolf Hitler released from Landsberg prison after only serving nearly nine months. During his incarceration he writes Mein Kampf.
23 - Film German film director F.W. Murnau premieres his expressionistic masterpiece The LastLaugh, starring Emil Jannings.
24 - Radio 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands.
24 - Disaster School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die.
26 - Judy Garland, 2, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut.
30 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems.
31 - USASports Knute Rockne and Four Horsemen of Notre Dame; Harry Stuhldreher, Jimmy Crowely, Don Miller and Elmer Layden, finish undefeated season
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