WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1924
Find out what all happened January to August 1924

Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome. (10. June 1924)

The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk. (3. March 1924)

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. (15. April 1924)

The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. (2. June 1924)

The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. (1. April 1924)

American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic. (26. June 1924)

The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). (14. February 1924)

Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece. (24. July 1924)

Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms. (8. April 1924)

In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top. (9. June 1924)

Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time. (16. January 1924)

The Whampoa Military Academy is founded. (16. June 1924)

University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". (21. May 1924)

Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada. (8. February 1924)

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. (22. February 1924)

Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (22. January 1924)

Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. (11. May 1924)

The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. (28. August 1924)

Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes Mein Kampf. (1. April 1924)

Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book. (18. April 1924)