1924 in the United States

1924 in the United States
Decades:	1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s
Years:	1921 1922 1923 – 1924 – 1925 1926 1927
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Events from the year 1924 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
• Vice President: vacant
• Chief Justice: William Howard Taft
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
• Congress: 68th

Events

January–March

• February 7 – Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
• February 12 – Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.
• February 14 – IBM is founded in New York State.
• February 16–February 26 – Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.
• February 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
• March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.

April–June

• April 16 – American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles, California.
• May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
• May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a thrill killing.
• June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.
• June 23 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.

July–September

• September 9 – The Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

October–December

• October 10 – The Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
• November 4 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
• November 4 – U.S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.
• November 19 – In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
• November 27 – In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• December 1 – George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) premiere in New York City.

Undated

• Alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York
• U.S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns.
• The Earth Inductor Compass is invented in New York City.

Ongoing

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
• Prohibition (1919–1933)
• Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Births

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• March 12 – Helen Parrish, American actress (died 1959)
• April 3
  • Marlon Brando, actor (died 2004)
  • Doris Day, actress, singer, and animal rights activist
• June 25
  • Martin J. Klein, historian and physicist (died 2009)
  • Sidney Lumet, filmmaker (died 2011)
• July 19 – Al Haig, jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop (died 1982)
• August 1 – Marcia Mae Jones, actress (died 2007)
• August 2
  • James Baldwin, author and civil rights activist (died 1987)
  • Joe Harnell, pianist and composer (died 2005)
  • Carroll O'Connor, actor, producer and director (died 2001)
• August 10 – Martha Hyer, actress
• September 30 – Truman Capote, author (died 1984)

Deaths

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• February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, historian and 28th President of the United States of America (born 1856)
• November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator from Massachusetts (born 1850)
• November 21 – Florence Harding, wife of President Warren G. Harding (born 1860)
• December 13 – Samuel Gompers, Labor leader (born 1850)

External links

• Media related to 1924 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons