Events in History in 1924 (Part 2)

  • Nov 27 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)
  • Nov 27 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held
  • Nov 28 Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber
  • Nov 30 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
  • Nov 30 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh

Historic Publication

Dec 1 "La Révolution surréaliste" publishes its first issue in Paris, edited by André Breton

  • Dec 1 Plutarco Elías Calles becomes President of Mexico
  • Dec 2 British-German trade agreement signed
  • Dec 7 German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose)
  • Dec 9 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
  • Dec 9 Netherlands & Hungary trade treaty signed
  • Dec 12 Spanish troops leave Morocco
  • Dec 13 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

Election of Interest

Dec 16 Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the US Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in office, the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor

  • Dec 17 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY

Event of Interest

Dec 19 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

Coup d'état

Dec 20 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early, having served only nine months of five-year sentence for "Beer Hall Putsch"

  • Dec 22 Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in NYC
  • Dec 24 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
  • Dec 24 Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
  • Dec 24 Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th NYC
  • Dec 24 School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma, catches fire, 36 die
  • Dec 27 Albania is declared a dictatorship under Ahmed Beg Zofu
  • Dec 27 The US signs a treaty with the Dominican Republic, which supersedes that of 1907: in July, the Us had withdrawn its Marines and ended its occupation

Event of Interest

Dec 30 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Event of Interest

Dec 31 Italian Fascist Mussolini orders the suppression of opposition newspapers