WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1924
Find out what all happened April to September 1924

The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania. (8. May 1924)

J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972. (10. May 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)

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)

Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. (9. September 1924)

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

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

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

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

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

The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits. (17. September 1924)

The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Beijing government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect. (31. May 1924)

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

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

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

First round-the-world flight completed. (28. September 1924)

First round-the-world flight commences. (6. April 1924)