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24 December – 1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash: Imperial Airways biplane G-EBBX crashes at Purley shortly after takeoff from Croydon Airport, killing all eight people on board, the new line's first fatal accident, [13] leading to the first UK public inquiry into a civil aviation accident.
The 1924 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the Labour minority government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence. [1] It was the third general election to be held in less than two years. Parliament was dissolved on 9 October. [2]
Pages in category "1924 in England" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1924 Dover by-election;
Pages in category "1924 in the United Kingdom" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In the UK, a railway accident killed 15 British commuters who were riding the Liverpool express train. [15]In the U.S., a railroad accident killed 11 bus passengers and seriously injured 8 others near Hampton, Virginia, when Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train No. 46 struck the bus in which they were riding.
Predicting the stock market is tough. Predicting the state of the world 100 years in the future? That’s a lot tougher. Paul Fairie, a researcher at the University of Calgary, has been doing deep ...
22 January - Ramsay MacDonald, MP for Aberavon, becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK. J. H. Thomas becomes his Secretary of State for the Colonies and Vernon Hartshorn Postmaster General of the United Kingdom. [8] April - David Ivon Jones becomes the only Welshman ever to be given a state funeral in the Soviet Union. [9]
The first "round-the-world" wireless radio communication took place between locations in New Zealand and the United Kingdom as favorable atmospheric conditions permitted amateur ham radio operators to hear each other over a distance of more than 19,000 kilometres (12,000 mi). Amateurs in both countries heard signals the night before.