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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]
The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was—after the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition—the 2nd expedition with the goal of achieving the first ascent of Mount Everest. [ 1 ] : 1 After two summit attempts in which Edward Norton set a world altitude record of 8,572.8 metres (28,126 ft), [ 1 ] : 11 the mountaineers George Mallory and ...
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1924. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ).
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The UK Liberal Party broke from its coalition with Labour and announced that the Liberals would not vote to ratify the treaties that the UK had signed with the Soviet Union. [ 3 ] Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned New York Giants player Jimmy O'Connell and coach Cozy Dolan over a bribery scandal.
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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 ...