1924
It happened in 1924
01/25/1924 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
02/12/1924 Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premiers at Carnegie
Hall (NYC)
02/22/1924 1st presidential radio address Calvin Coolidge
03/21/1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ,
NYC)
03/28/1924 Pasadena Junior College is established.
04/06/1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world
flight
04/11/1924 1st men's college swimming championships begin
05/10/1924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
06/10/1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans
at Cleveland
06/15/1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
06/15/1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
07/03/1924 Clarence Birdseye introduces process for fish freezing,
suitable for immediate cooking.
08/05/1924 Harlod Gray's comic strip Little Orphan Annie
began in the New York Times.
08/11/1924 US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop
news
10/04/1924 NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World
Series
10/10/1924 Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants
in 7
11/01/1924 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
11/04/1924 California legalizes pro boxing (illegal since 1914)
11/04/1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming)
11/04/1924 US president Calvin Coolidge re-elected
11/25/1924 Macy's department store holds first Thanksgiving Parade.
11/30/1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio
12/17/1924 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx,
NY
12/31/1924 Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies
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