16th January » Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
22nd January » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Party (UK) or Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
25th January » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the France called French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
26th January » Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1st February » The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union e.g USSR.
5th February » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
8th February » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
14th February » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
22nd February » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
3rd March » The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Abdul Mejid II e.g Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk known as Kemal Atatürk.
3rd March » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
8th March » The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
16th March » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, 1924 known as Treaty of Rome, Rijeka e.g Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
25th March » On the anniversary of Greek War of Independence called Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
1st April » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in Prison called jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes 'Mein Kampf'.
1st April » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
6th April » First aerial circumnavigation e.g First round-the-world flight commences.
15th April » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
18th April » Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
8th May » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
21st May » University of Chicago students Leopold and Loeb or Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
31st May » 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.
2nd June » The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 named Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans in the United States or Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United State
10th June » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialism called Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
16th June » The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
26th June » American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
11th July » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday
24th July » Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
4th August » Diplomacy Diplomatic relations called Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
28th August » The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic known as Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
9th September » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
17th September » The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet Union named Soviet raids and local bandits.
17th September » The Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian is formed.
28th September » First aerial circumnavigation e.g First round-the-world flight completed.
7th October » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes List of Prime Ministers of Greece called Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
22nd October » Toastmasters International is founded.
27th October » The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic named Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
31st October » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Kingdom of Italy known as Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
4th November » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
19th December » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
20th December » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison