WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1924
Find out what all happened February to August 1924

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

The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. (8. March 1924)

In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy. (16. March 1924)

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

On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic. (25. March 1924)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy. (3. March 1924)

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

Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established. (4. August 1924)

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

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