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Wheatley remained a widely respected political figure and when MacDonald became Prime Minister in January 1924, he appointed Wheatley as his Minister of Health. Wheatley is best remembered for his Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 , which saw a massive expansion in affordable municipal housing for the working class.
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 .
Having been re-elected vice-chairman of the party in 1922 and 1923, Wedgwood expected a seat in the Cabinet when Labour formed its first government at the start of 1924. There was speculation in the press that he would be made First Lord of the Admiralty and some expectation that he would become Secretary of State for the Colonies or for India .
James Ramsay MacDonald (né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman [1] and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.
Britain had formally recognised the USSR on 1 February 1924. However, the fake Zinoviev letter was believed in Britain and caused a chill. [115] Diplomatic relations were severed at the end of May 1927 after prime minister Stanley Baldwin presented the House of Commons with deciphered Soviet telegrams that proved Soviet espionage activities.
The British government formally recognized the Soviet Union and began diplomatic relations with Robert M. Hodgson as the first chargé d'affaires. [1] [2]Honduran President Rafael López Gutiérrez, who had been elected in 1919 for a 4-year term that started on February 1, 1920, refused to leave office after his term expired, citing the failure of the Honduran Congress to elect a president ...
Voting took place in the UK for all 615 seats of the House of Commons and was marked by a gain of 154 seats by the Conservative Party of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, as well as a loss of 158 seats for the coalition of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party and former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's Liberal Party. [144]
Bhichai Rattakul, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, 1983 to 1990 and 1997 to 2000, later the World President of the service club Rotary International, 2002–2004; in Bangkok, Kingdom of Siam (d. 2022) Died: Arabella Huntington, 74, American philanthropist who was, in 1900, the wealthiest woman in the U.S. after the death of her husband [61]