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September 28, 1924 (Sunday) [ edit ] The four remaining American aviators in the round-the-world flight expedition completed their journey by landing at Sand Point in Seattle in the airplanes Chicago (with pilot Lowell H. Smith and co-pilot Leslie P. Arnold) and New Orleans (with pilot Erik H. Nelson and co-pilot John Harding Jr), all four of ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
September 1 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (born 1840) September 15 – Frank Chance, baseball player (born 1877) September 17 – John Martin Schaeberle, German-born astronomer (born 1853 in Germany) September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, stage actress (born 1847)
1924 – Immigration Act Basic Law; 1924 – Indian Citizenship Act; 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the predecessor to the FBI., 1924 – 1924 U.S. presidential election: Calvin Coolidge elected president for a full term, Charles G. Dawes elected vice president; 1924 – The Dawes Plan
September 7 – September 24 Balkan, Serbian: Battle of the Drina: September 7 Asian and Pacific: Fanning Raid: September 7–14 Eastern: First Battle of the Masurian Lakes: The Russian Army of the Neman withdraws from East Prussia with heavy casualties. September 9 Politics: Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg lays out Germany's war aims. September 11
1945 marked the end of an era. In foreign policy the United Nations was established on October 24, 1945, to serve as a world body to help prevent future world wars. By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate, on December 4, 1945, approved the treaty that set full American participation in the UN, with a veto in the all-important Security ...
Display a year or month calendar Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Year year the ordinal year number of the calendar Default current Number suggested Month month whether to display a single month instead of a whole year, and which one Default empty Example current, next, last, 1, January String suggested Show year show_year whether to display the year ...
1945: September 2: World War II ends as the Empire of Japan formally surrenders. May 8: The war in Europe ends as the Greater German Empire formally surrenders. 1941: December 11: The United States declares war on the German Reich and the Italian Empire. December 8: The United States declares war on the Empire of Japan and enters World War II ...