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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 .
1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era (CE) and ... January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, ...
June 3, 1924: Renowned novelist Franz Kafka dies in obscurity in Austria June 2, 1924: U.S. President Coolidge poses with Osage Indian representatives at signing of law granting U.S. citizenship to all American Indians June 10, 1924: Fascists kidnap and murder Italian legislator Giacomo Matteotti after his harsh criticism of Prime Minister Mussolini
The Des Moines, Iowa radio station WHO began broadcasting as one of the "clear-channel station" permitted to operate 24 hours a day. [45] Born: K Lal (stage name for Kantilal Girdharilal Vora), Indian musician who performed for 62 years until two months before his death; in Mavjhinjhva, Baroda principality (now Gujarat), British India (d. 2012)
The gold went to Martha Norelius, who, at the 1928 Olympics, would set a world record and make history for becoming the only woman to this day to win back-to-back Olympic golds in the 400-meter event.
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 ...
A 1924 newspaper predicted what life would be like today. Here’s what it got right—and horribly wrong ... but the prediction by real estate baron J. P. Day that the city would have a ...
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.