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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 – Diana Decker, American-English actress and singer (d. 2019) September 2 – Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant (d. 2015) September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (d. 2014) September 5. Paul Dietzel, American college football coach (d. 2013) Roy Andrew Miller, American linguist (d ...
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 ...
August 8 – The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States Senate, and this nation becomes the third one to join the new international organization. August 9 – Atomic bombing of Nagasaki : United States B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 atomic bomb, codenamed " Fat Man ", on the Japanese city of Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. local ...
1924 RNC presidential ballot (1) 1924 RNC vice presidential ballots (1–3) Presidential ballot 1 Vice presidential ballot 1 2 Before shifts 2 After shifts 3 Calvin Coolidge 1065 Charles G. Dawes 149 111 49 682.5 Robert M. La Follette 34 Frank Orren Lowden 222 413 766 0 Hiram Johnson 10 Theodore E. Burton 139 288 94 0 Herbert Hoover 0 0 0 234.5 ...
1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1920s decade.
September 6, 1901 – McKinley is shot, in Buffalo, New York. September 14, 1901 – President McKinley dies, Vice President Roosevelt becomes the 26th president [1] 1901 – U.S. Steel founded by John Pierpont Morgan; 1901 – Hay–Pauncefote Treaty; 1901 – Louis Armstrong born; 1902 – Drago Doctrine; 1902 – First Rose Bowl game played