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  • Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
    1924
    Josip Broz Tito

    The CPY district committee

    Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
    1924

    In 1924, Broz was elected to the CPY district committee, but after he gave a speech at a comrade's Catholic funeral he was arrested when the priest complained.




  • China
    1924
    Chinese Civil War

    Chiang became the head of the Whampoa Military Academy

    China
    1924

    In 1923, Sun sent Chiang Kai-shek, one of his lieutenants from his Tongmenghui days, for several months of military and political study in the Soviet capital Moscow. By 1924, Chiang became the head of the Whampoa Military Academy, and rose to prominence as Sun's successor as head of the KMT.




  • U.S.
    1924
    Louis Armstrong

    Parted Amicably

    U.S.
    1924

    Armstrong and Oliver parted amicably in 1924.




  • Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
    1924
    Hachikō

    Hidesaburō Ueno Took him as a Pet

    Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
    1924

    In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the Tokyo Imperial University, took Hachikō as a pet and brought him to live in Shibuya, Tokyo.




  • Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
    1924
    Mongolian Revolution of 1990

    The Party Renamed Itself The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party

    Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
    1924

    In 1924, the party renamed itself the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. Over the following decades, Mongolia was always very closely aligned with the Soviet Union.




  • Germany
    1924
    Heinrich Himmler

    Abandon Catholicism

    Germany
    1924

    In 1923–24, Himmler, while searching for a world view, came to abandon Catholicism and focused on the occult and antisemitism. Germanic mythology, reinforced by occult ideas, became a religion for him. Himmler found the NSDAP appealing because its political positions agreed with his own views. Initially, he was not swept up by Hitler's charisma or the cult of Führer worship. However, as he learned more about Hitler through his reading, he began to regard him as a useful face of the party, and he later admired and even worshipped him. To consolidate and advance his own position in the NSDAP, Himmler took advantage of the disarray in the party following Hitler's arrest in the wake of the Beer Hall Putsch.




  • England
    1924
    John Maynard Keynes

    Fiscal response

    England
    1924

    From 1924 he was also advocating a fiscal response, where the government could create jobs by spending on public works.


  • New York, U.S.
    1924
    Statue of Liberty

    National Monument

    New York, U.S.
    1924

    In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare the statue a national monument.


  • France
    1924
    Charles de Gaulle

    Élisabeth (The second De Gaulle child)

    France
    1924

    Élisabeth was born in 1924.


  • Chicago, Illinois, United States
    Jan, 1924
    Mamie Till

    Alma joined Louis again

    Chicago, Illinois, United States
    Jan, 1924

    Alma Carthan joined Louis in January 1924, bringing along two-year-old Mamie and her brother, John. They settled in a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Argo.


  • Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    1924
    Edward VIII

    Donated the Prince of Wales Trophy to the National Hockey League

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    1924

    In 1924, he donated the Prince of Wales Trophy to the National Hockey League.


  • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Sunday Jan 20, 1924
    Mao Zedong

    The First KMT Congress

    Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Sunday Jan 20, 1924

    At the First KMT Congress, held in Guangzhou in early 1924, Mao was elected an alternate member of the KMT Central Executive Committee, and put forward four resolutions to decentralise power to urban and rural bureaus.


  • Gorki Leninskiye, U.S.S.R.
    Monday Jan 21, 1924
    Vladimir Lenin

    Death

    Gorki Leninskiye, U.S.S.R.
    Monday Jan 21, 1924

    On 21 January 1924, Lenin fell into a coma and died later that day.


  • Russia
    Monday Jan 21, 1924
    Joseph Stalin

    Lenin Died

    Russia
    Monday Jan 21, 1924

    Lenin died in January 1924.


  • Germany
    1924
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels first took an interest in Adolf Hitler and Nazism

    Germany
    1924

    Goebbels first took an interest in Adolf Hitler and Nazism in 1924. Goebbels was drawn to the NSDAP mostly because of Hitler's charisma and commitment to his beliefs. He joined the NSDAP around this time, becoming member number 8762.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Saturday Jan 26, 1924
    Hirohito

    Marriage

    Tokyo, Japan
    Saturday Jan 26, 1924

    Prince Hirohito married his distant cousin Princess Nagako Kuni (the future Empress Kōjun), the eldest daughter of Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, on 26 January 1924. They had two sons and five daughters.


  • India
    Thursday Jan 31, 1924
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    The Release

    India
    Thursday Jan 31, 1924

    Gandhi was released in February 1924 for an appendicitis operation, having served only two years.


  • Munich, Germany
    Feb, 1924
    Adolf Hitler

    Hitler's trail

    Munich, Germany
    Feb, 1924

    His trial before the special People's Court in Munich began in February 1924, and Alfred Rosenberg became temporary leader of the NSDAP.


  • U.S.
    Monday Feb 4, 1924
    Louis Armstrong

    Marriage

    U.S.
    Monday Feb 4, 1924

    On February 4, 1924, he married Lil Hardin Armstrong, King Oliver's pianist, divorced in 1938.


  • New York, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 14, 1924
    IBM

    Renamed

    New York, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 14, 1924

    Watson never liked the clumsy hyphenated name "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company" and on February 14, 1924, chose to replace it with the more expansive title "International Business Machines".


  • U.S.
    Feb, 1924
    Marcus Garvey

    UNIA put forward its plans to bring 3000 African-American migrants to Liberia

    U.S.
    Feb, 1924

    In February 1924, UNIA put forward its plans to bring 3000 African-American migrants to Liberia. The latter's President, Charles D. B. King, assured them that he would grant them area for three colonies. In June, a team of UNIA technicians was sent to start work in preparing for these colonies.


  • U.S.
    1924
    Father's Day

    US president Calvin Coolidge recommended that the day be observed throughout the entire nation

    U.S.
    1924

    US president Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed throughout the entire nation, but he stopped short at issuing a national proclamation.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 18, 1924
    Anna May Wong

    Wong was cast in a supporting role in The Thief of Bagdad

    U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 18, 1924

    At the age of 19, Wong was cast in a supporting role as a scheming Mongol slave in the 1924 Douglas Fairbanks picture The Thief of Bagdad. Playing a stereotypical "Dragon Lady" role, her brief appearances on-screen caught the attention of audiences and critics alike.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Mar 19, 1924
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill stood as an independent anti-socialist candidate in the Westminster Abbey by-election

    England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Mar 19, 1924

    On 19 March 1924, alienated by Liberal support for Labour, Churchill stood as an independent anti-socialist candidate in the Westminster Abbey by-election but was defeated.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Mar, 1924
    Yasunari Kawabata

    Graduation

    Tokyo, Japan
    Mar, 1924

    Kawabata graduated in 1924, by which time he had already caught the attention of Kikuchi Kan, a Japanese author, and other noted writers and editors through his submissions to Kikuchi's literary magazine, the Bungei Shunju.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1924
    Plague

    Plague breaks out in Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1924

    Plague breaks out in Los Angeles. 32 people get infected and only 2 survive. It is the last rat-borne epidemic occurring in the United States.


  • U.S.
    Mar, 1924
    Anna May Wong

    Anna May Wong Productions

    U.S.
    Mar, 1924

    In March 1924, planning to make films about Chinese myths, she signed a deal creating Anna May Wong Productions; when her business partner was found to be engaging in dishonest practices, Wong brought a lawsuit against him and the company was dissolved.


  • Landsberg, Germany
    Tuesday Apr 1, 1924
    Adolf Hitler

    Five years' imprisonment

    Landsberg, Germany
    Tuesday Apr 1, 1924

    On 1 April, Hitler was sentenced to five years' imprisonment at Landsberg Prison.


  • Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    Thursday Apr 3, 1924
    Marlon Brando

    Birth

    Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
    Thursday Apr 3, 1924

    Brando was born on April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Marlon Brando, Sr.


  • Italy
    Sunday Apr 6, 1924
    Benito Mussolini

    The national alliance won the elections

    Italy
    Sunday Apr 6, 1924

    In the elections of 6 April 1924. The national alliance, consisting of Fascists, most of the old Liberals, and others, won 64% of the vote.


  • Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
    May, 1924
    Winston Churchill

    No longer a place for the Liberal Party in British politics

    Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
    May, 1924

    In May, Churchill addressed a Conservative meeting in Liverpool and declared that there was no longer a place for the Liberal Party in British politics. He said that Liberals must back the Conservatives to stop Labour and ensure "the successful defeat of socialism".


  • Munich, Germany
    Jun, 1924
    Heinrich Himmler

    Working under Gregor Strasser

    Munich, Germany
    Jun, 1924

    From mid-1924, Himmler worked under Gregor Strasser as a party secretary and propaganda assistant. Traveling all over Bavaria agitating for the party, he gave speeches and distributed literature.


  • Russia
    Jun, 1924
    Ho Chi Minh

    Participating In The Fifth Comintern Congress

    Russia
    Jun, 1924

    Quốc (Ho) participated in the Fifth Comintern Congress in June 1924.


  • U.S.
    1924
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson published the first survey of free black slaveowners in the United States in 1830

    U.S.
    1924

    Woodson studied many aspects of African-American history. For instance, in 1924, Woodson published the first survey of free black slaveowners in the United States in 1830.


  • Herzogenaurach, Germany
    Jul, 1924
    Adidas

    Founding Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory

    Herzogenaurach, Germany
    Jul, 1924

    Adidas was founded by Adolf "Adi" Dassler who made sports shoes in his mother's scullery or laundry room in Herzogenaurach, Germany after his return from World War I. In July 1924, his older brother Rudolf joined the business, which became Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory (Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik).


  • England, United Kingdom
    Jul, 1924
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill agreed with Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin that he would be selected as a Conservative candidate in the next general election

    England, United Kingdom
    Jul, 1924

    In July, Churchill agreed with Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin that he would be selected as a Conservative candidate in the next general election, which was held on 29 October. Churchill stood at Epping, but he described himself as a "Constitutionalist".


  • Paris, France
    Saturday Aug 16, 1924
    Gustav Stresemann

    Dawes Plan

    Paris, France
    Saturday Aug 16, 1924

    His first notable achievement was the Dawes Plan of 1924, which successfully resolved the issue of World War I reparations that Germany had to pay. It ended a crisis in European diplomacy following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles, it reduced Germany's overall reparations commitment and reorganized the Reichsbank.


  • Nice, France
    Sep, 1924
    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky bought "an expensive house" in Nice

    Nice, France
    Sep, 1924

    In September 1924, Stravinsky bought "an expensive house" in Nice: the Villa des Roses.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Sep 14, 1924
    Anna May Wong

    The Alaskan

    U.S.
    Sunday Sep 14, 1924

    Wong continued to be offered exotic supporting roles that followed the rising "vamp" stereotype in cinema. She played indigenous native girls in two 1924 films. Filmed on location in the Territory of Alaska she portrayed an Eskimo in The Alaskan.


  • Stockholm, Sweden
    1924
    Willem Einthoven

    Einthoven was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    Stockholm, Sweden
    1924

    In 1924, Einthoven was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for inventing the first practical system of electrocardiography used in medical diagnosis.


  • Heidelberg, Germany
    1924
    Albrecht Kossel

    The Institute for Protein Research

    Heidelberg, Germany
    1924

    In 1924, Kossel became a director at the Institute for Protein Research at Heidelberg, which was part of the laboratory of the Medical Clinic. Kossel had helped to found it as the gift of a manufacturer. His research predicted the discovery of the polypeptide nature of the protein molecule.


  • Germany
    1924
    Albrecht Kossel

    Professor Emeritus

    Germany
    1924

    In 1924, Kossel became professor emeritus but continued to lecture at Heidelberg University.


  • Plains, Georgia, U.S.
    Wednesday Oct 1, 1924
    Jimmy Carter

    Birth

    Plains, Georgia, U.S.
    Wednesday Oct 1, 1924

    James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, at the Wise Sanitarium (now the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center) in Plains, Georgia.


  • France
    Oct, 1924
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle studied at the École de Guerre

    France
    Oct, 1924

    He then studied at the École de Guerre (staff college) from November 1922 to October 1924.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Oct, 1924
    Yasunari Kawabata

    New writing movement

    Tokyo, Japan
    Oct, 1924

    In October 1924, Kawabata, Riichi Yokomitsu, and other young writers started a new literary journal Bungei Jidai ("The Artistic Age"). This journal was a reaction to the entrenched old school of Japanese literature, specifically the Japanese movement descended from Naturalism, while it also stood in opposition to the "workers'" or proletarian literature movement of the Socialist/Communist schools.


  • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Nov, 1924
    Ho Chi Minh

    Arriving In Canton (present-day Guangzhou)

    Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Nov, 1924

    Quốc (Ho) arrived in Canton (present-day Guangzhou), China in November 1924 using the name Ly Thuy.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Thursday Nov 6, 1924
    Winston Churchill

    Baldwin appointed him as Chancellor of the Exchequer

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Thursday Nov 6, 1924

    The Conservatives were victorious and Baldwin formed the new government. Although Churchill had no background in finance or economics, Baldwin appointed him as Chancellor of the Exchequer.


  • Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
    1924
    Diving horse

    Sonora Webster joined the show

    Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
    1924

    Sonora Webster joined the show in 1924. She later married Al Floyd Carver. The show became a permanent fixture at Atlantic City's popular venue Steel Pier. There, Sonora, Al and Lorena continued the show following his death.


  • Semarang, the Dutch East Indies (Present-Day in Indonesia)
    1924
    Audrey Hepburn

    Joseph had been an Honorary British Consul in Semarang

    Semarang, the Dutch East Indies (Present-Day in Indonesia)
    1924

    In 1923–1924, Joseph had been an Honorary British Consul in Semarang in the Dutch East Indies, and prior to his marriage to Hepburn's mother, he had been married to Cornelia Bisschop, a Dutch heiress.


  • Italy
    1924
    Benito Mussolini

    Contraception a criminal offense during Mussolini's rule

    Italy
    1924

    In 1924, Mussolini made advocating or giving information about contraception a criminal offense.


  • Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    1924
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Moving to Detroit

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    1924

    The family moved to Detroit in 1924, where Hoffa was raised and lived the rest of his life.


  • Germany
    1924
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels offered his services to NSDAP district leader

    Germany
    1924

    In late 1924, Goebbels offered his services to Karl Kaufmann, who was Gauleiter (NSDAP district leader) for the Rhine-Ruhr District. Kaufmann put him in touch with Gregor Strasser, a leading Nazi organizer in northern Germany, who hired him to work on their weekly newspaper and undertake secretarial work for the regional party offices.


  • Landsberg, Germany
    Saturday Dec 20, 1924
    Adolf Hitler

    Released from jail

    Landsberg, Germany
    Saturday Dec 20, 1924

    There, he received friendly treatment from the guards, and was allowed mail from supporters and regular visits by party comrades. Pardoned by the Bavarian Supreme Court, he was released from jail on 20 December 1924, against the state prosecutor's objections. Including time on remand, Hitler served just over one year in prison.


  • Germany
    Saturday Dec 20, 1924
    Joseph Goebbels

    Hitler was released

    Germany
    Saturday Dec 20, 1924

    The trial attracted widespread press coverage and gave Hitler a platform for propaganda. Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison but was released on 20 December 1924, after serving just over a year.


  • U.S.
    Monday Dec 29, 1924
    Anna May Wong

    Wong preformed in Peter Pan

    U.S.
    Monday Dec 29, 1924

    Wong returned to Los Angeles to perform the part of Princess Tiger Lily in Peter Pan. Both films were shot by cinematographer James Wong Howe but Peter Pan was more successful; the hit of the Christmas season.


  • Italy
    Wednesday Dec 31, 1924
    Benito Mussolini

    Warings to Mussolini

    Italy
    Wednesday Dec 31, 1924

    On 31 December 1924, MVSN (Milizia Volontaria di Sicurezza Nazionale) consuls met with Mussolini and gave him an ultimatum: crush the opposition or they would do so without him. Fearing a revolt by his own militants, Mussolini decided to drop all pretense of democracy.


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