WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1924
Find out what all happened March to October 1924

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

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

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. (15. April 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 Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. (27. October 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)

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

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

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

The Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian is formed. (17. September 1924)

Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time. (7. October 1924)

Toastmasters International is founded. (22. October 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)

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

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)

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

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

The Zinoviev Letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail. The Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win. (25. October 1924)

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