What major event happened in 1924?

Answer 1

Here are the major events that happened in 1924.

The British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel; 43 are killed.

Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.

Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.

The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps).

Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad.

GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.

IBM is founded in New York State.

Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House

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Adolf Hitler begins dictating his book Mein Kampf (or in English, My Struggle), while imprisoned in Bavaria.

The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.

American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles, California.

The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.

J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.

George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M. The two mountaineers are never seen alive again.

American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss Pursuit.

Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.

France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.

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

U.S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns.

Answer 2

In Los Angeles, California, famous silent filmdirector Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies of a heart attack in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst.) *Not my words*