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May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks, in a thrill killing. The event will inspire the 1929 play Rope. [4] May 26 – The Asian Exclusion Act is enacted, banning all Asian immigration to the United States.
U.S. Marines invaded Washington County for a public training event that brought modern — for 1924 — battle tactics to Antietam battlefield. 100 years ago, Sharpsburg was invaded again — by ...
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.
A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.
Michie Stadium / ˈ m aɪ k i / is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.The home field for the Army Black Knights, it opened 100 years ago in 1924 and has a seating capacity of 30,000 for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine died on Everest in 1924. New research sheds light on whether they reached the summit first. 100 years ago they disappeared on Everest.
It met in Columbus, Ohio in June 1924, with 27 delegates present. Anti-Catholic activist former judge Gilbert O. Nations was nominated on the first ballot for President of the United States, with 20 votes to 7 for Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot, whose supporters announced that he had declined the party's nomination, insisting that he preferred to work within the Republican Party.
The first time was in 1900, and the last time was a century ago in 1924. There are about twice as many sports at the 2024 Paris games as there were a century ago. In 1924, there were 17 sports ...