WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1924
Find out what all happened January to February 1924

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

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

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

The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR. (1. February 1924)

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

Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad. (26. January 1924)

George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music," in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano. (12. February 1924)

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

The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games. (25. January 1924)

The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". (5. February 1924)