1924 in the United States

1924 in the United States
Years:	1921 1922 1923 – 1924 – 1925 1926 1927
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Events from the year 1924 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

• President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts)
• Vice President: vacant
• Chief Justice: William Howard Taft
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
• Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts) (until November 9), vacant (starting November 9)
• Congress: 68th

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors 2 Lieutenant Governors 2

Events

January–March

• February 7 – Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
• February 12 – Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.
• February 14 – IBM is founded in New York State.
• February 16–February 26 – Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.
• February 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
• March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.

April–June

• April 16 – American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles, California.
• May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
• May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a thrill killing.
• 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.
• June 23 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.

July–September

• September 9 – The Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

October–December

• October 10 – The Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
• November 4
  • Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
  • U.S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive U. S. Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.
• November 19 – In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
• November 27 – In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• December 1 – George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) premiere in New York City.

Undated

• Alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York
• U.S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns.
• The Earth Inductor Compass is invented in New York City.

Ongoing

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
• Prohibition (1919–1933)
• Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Births

• January 23 - Frank Lautenberg, United States Senator from New Jersey from 1982 to 2001 and again 2003 to 2013. (died 2013)
• January 25 - Lou Groza, American football player and coach (died 2000)
• February 21 - William Hathaway, United States Senator from Maine from 1973 till 1979. (died 2013)
• March 12 – Helen Parrish, actress (died 1959)
• April 3
  • Marlon Brando, actor (died 2004)
  • Doris Day, actress, singer, and animal rights activist
• May 11
  • Helen Filarski, baseball player (d. 2014)
  • Ninfa Laurenzo, American businessman, founded Ninfa's (d. 2001)
• June 4 – Dennis Weaver, actor (died 2006)
• June 12 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States from 1989 till 1993 and father of the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush and spouse of Barbara Bush
• June 25
  • Martin J. Klein, historian and physicist (died 2009)
  • Sidney Lumet, filmmaker (died 2011)
• July 15 - Jeremiah Denton, United States Senator from Alabama from 1981 till 1987. (died 2014)
• July 18 – Will D. Campbell, minister, author, and activist (died 2013)
• July 25 – Frank Church, United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 till 1981. (died 1984)
• August 1 – Marcia Mae Jones, actress (died 2007)
• August 2
  • James Baldwin, author and civil rights activist (died 1987)
  • Joe Harnell, pianist and composer (died 2005)
  • Carroll O'Connor, actor, producer and director (died 2001)
• August 10 – Martha Hyer, actress (died 2014)
• September 6 - John Melcher, United States Senator from Montana from 1977 till 1989.
• September 7 - Daniel Inouye, United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 till 2012. (died 2012)
• September 8 - Wendell H. Ford, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1974 till 1999.
• September 11 - Daniel Akaka, United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 till 2013.
• September 30 – Truman Capote, author (died 1984)
• October 1 - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, from 1977 till 1981.
• November 16 - Sam Farber, businessman, co-founded OXO (died 2013)
• December 27 – James A. McClure, United States Senator from Idaho from 1973 till 1991. (died 2011)

Deaths

• February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, historian and 28th President of the United States of America from 1913 till 1921. (born 1856)
• April 7 – Marcus A. Smith, United States Senator from Arizona from 1912 till 1921. (born 1851)
• November 3 – Cornelius Cole, United States Senator from California from 1867 till 1873. (born 1822)
• November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1893 till 1924. (born 1850)
• November 21 – Florence Harding, wife of Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States. (born 1860)
• December 13 – Samuel Gompers, Labor leader (born 1850)

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