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1924 March 2011 1924 border:none;b 3/3 Lenin's funerals by I.Brodsky (1925) detail 01.jpg Caliph Abdülmecid dethronment.jpg Åbningsceremoni ved Den VIII Olympiades Lege, juli 1924.webp Chang Tzung-chang's soldiers.jpg Portão do 4º Batalhão após a tomada pelos revoltosos (cropped).jpg Kakutsa shepitsulebi.jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The death of Vladimir Lenin sparks a Soviet power struggle, aiding Joseph Stalin’s rise; The Abolition of the Caliphate by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk accelerates Turkey’s secularization; The 1924 Summer Olympics are held in Paris, introducing the first Olympic Village; The Second Zhili–Fengtian War intensifies China’s Warlord Era; The São Paulo Revolt of 1924 causes months of urban warfare; The August Uprising in Georgia is brutally suppressed by Bolsheviks. 1924 1924 Events January 240px|thumbnail|right|1924 Winter Olympics January 1924 January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.Maya Gupta Amit Kumar Gupta Defying Death: Struggle Against Imperialism and Feudalism https://books.google.com/books?id=ShBuAAAAMAAJ 2001 Tulika 978-81-85229-41-6 53 September 29, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151329/https://books.google.com/books?id=ShBuAAAAMAAJ live January 20–30 – Kuomintang in China holds its first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. January 21 – The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_gg/ Archontology.org South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 https://web.archive.org/web/20230508115458/http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_gg/ May 8, 2023 14 April 2017 live January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Marian B. McLeod The Parliamentary Speaking of Ramsay MacDonald: A Study of His First Labour Government https://books.google.com/books?id=0FEjAAAAMAAJ 1978 Literary Press 18 September 29, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151333/https://books.google.com/books?id=0FEjAAAAMAAJ live January 25 – The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.Norris McWhirter Guinness Book of Records https://books.google.com/books?id=p1qPWMsBz7sC 1983 Guinness Superlatives 978-0-85112-260-1 311 October 3, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151430/https://books.google.com/books?id=p1qPWMsBz7sC live January 26 – Petrograd in the Soviet Union is renamed Leningrad; it will revert to Saint Petersburg in 1991.David M. Glantz The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944 https://books.google.com/books?id=4uRmAAAAMAAJ 2002 University Press of Kansas 978-0-7006-1208-6 8 February February 1924 February 1 – The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union.2 February 1924 Recognition of Russia https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19240202.2.35?end_date=02-02-1924&items_per_page=10&query=Russia&snippet=true&start_date=01-02-1924&title=ESD 28 December 2021 Evening Star 4 Press Association December 1, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221201214143/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19240202.2.35?end_date=02-02-1924&items_per_page=10&query=Russia&snippet=true&start_date=01-02-1924&title=ESD live February 5 – GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.History of the BBC Pips: Royal Observatory & Greenwich Time Signal https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/time/bbc-pips-royal-observatory-greenwich-time-service 2025-09-16 www.rmg.co.uk en February 14 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines (IBM).Annual Report of the International Business Machines Corporation for the Year Ended ... https://books.google.com/books?id=ANseAQAAMAAJ 1923 International Business Machines Corporation July 23, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151331/https://books.google.com/books?id=ANseAQAAMAAJ live February 19 – Miga and Mica had their anniversary on this date February 22 Treaty of Rome: The Kingdom of Italy annexes the Free State of Fiume, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbs Sušak.Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office British and Foreign State Papers https://books.google.com/books?id=htoMAQAAIAAJ 1932 H.M. Stationery Office 762 July 23, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151338/https://books.google.com/books?id=htoMAQAAIAAJ live Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.Arthur F. Fleser A Rhetorical Study of the Speaking of Calvin Coolidge https://books.google.com/books?id=4HyilaT0zGEC&pg=PA85 1990 978-0-88946-321-9 85 Edwin Mellen Press October 5, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151335/https://books.google.com/books?id=4HyilaT0zGEC&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false live March March 1924 March 3 – The Ottoman Caliphate, a remnant of the Ottoman Empire abolished on November 1, 1922, and one of the historical claims of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, comes to an end with the deposition of Abdülmecid II, Caliph of the Ottoman dynasty. This marks the end of an era, giving way to the drastic political transformations of Turkey under President Atatürk's reforms.Öztürk, Fatih https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/12937 The Ottoman Millet System 71–86 - Cited: p. 72 March 6 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government). March 15 – Horacio Vásquez wins the Dominican Republic general election, becoming president, coinciding with the end of United States military occupation.Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p247 978-0-19-928357-6 March 24 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world premiere of his Symphony No. 7 in Stockholm. March 25 – The Second Hellenic Republic is proclaimed in Greece.http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wFDWqVnkvhsTndtvSoClrL8BI7vRxXKg8ztIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIfmAIHno4xZaiebsKTXkZGFzZyd4dunA0LfOa-Yg4kaY. Newspaper of the Government - Issue 64 25 March 1924 Government Newspaper of the Hellenic State 18 August 2012 October 9, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201009021338/http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wFDWqVnkvhsTndtvSoClrL8BI7vRxXKg8ztIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIfmAIHno4xZaiebsKTXkZGFzZyd4dunA0LfOa-Yg4kaY. live March 29 – In France, the Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré begins.Robert J. Young https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-24890-2 France and the Origins of the Second World War 18 September 1996 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-24890-2 173 10.1007/978-1-349-24890-2 May 11, 2024 August 11, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200811014301/https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-349-24890-2 live April April 1924 April 1 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison in Germany for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (he serves less than 9 months). April 6 – Italian general election, 1924: Fascists win the elections in Italy with a two-thirds majority. April 13 – The Greek republic referendum favors formation of the Second Hellenic Republic.S. Steinberg The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1950 https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTPDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1074 29 December 2016 Springer 978-0-230-27079-4 1074 October 20, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151335/https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTPDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1074#v=onepage&q&f=false live April 23 – The British Empire Exhibition opens in London; it is the largest colonial exhibition, with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented.Robert A. Bickers Britain in China: Community Culture and Colonialism, 1900-1949 https://books.google.com/books?id=bllnAAAAMAAJ 1999 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-4697-1 65 April 9, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151947/https://books.google.com/books?id=bllnAAAAMAAJ live May May 1924 May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.David Wallechinsky The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Athens 2004 Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=TYvPyVbjRpgC 2004 Sport Media Pub. 978-1-894963-32-9 2 October 20, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151956/https://books.google.com/books?id=TYvPyVbjRpgC live May 8 – Lithuania signs the Klaipėda Convention with the nations of the Conference of Ambassadors, taking the Klaipėda Region from East Prussia and making it into an autonomous region.Georg von Rauch The Baltic States: The Years of Independence : Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 1917-1940 https://books.google.com/books?id=emBIdi4LPz8C&pg=PA104 1974 C. Hurst & Co. Publishers 978-0-903983-00-6 104 April 9, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152120/https://books.google.com/books?id=emBIdi4LPz8C&pg=PA104 live May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Athan G. Theoharis Susan Rosenfeld Richard G. Powers The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=VnQduXa4JdoC&pg=PA363 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-89774-991-6 363 October 20, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152224/https://books.google.com/books?id=VnQduXa4JdoC&pg=PA363 live May 11 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging of companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz. May 26 – Harry Grindell Matthews attempts to demonstrate his "death ray" to the War Office in the United Kingdom.Astronautics & Aeronautics https://books.google.com/books?id=F7PGAAAAIAAJ 1974 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 77 October 4, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152224/https://books.google.com/books?id=F7PGAAAAIAAJ live May 26 – The United States Immigration Act of 1924, commonly known as the Johnson-Reed Act, becomes effective. The act modifies the National Origins Quotas introduced in the Immigration Act of 1921. May 30 – Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against fascism. A few days later he is kidnapped and murdered in Rome.Allan Todd Sally Waller History for the IB Diploma Paper 2 Authoritarian States (20th Century) https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 10 September 2015 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-55889-2 39 October 4, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151953/https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false live June June 1924 June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.Paul C Rosier Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=s9X7MWwmOSIC&pg=PA301 1 March 2010 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-05452-3 301 October 5, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152201/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9X7MWwmOSIC&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false live June 5 – Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean,The National Inventors Hall of Fame: Dedicated to the Spirit of Invention https://books.google.com/books?id=s9CMfanXhIAC&pg=PA52 1984 U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office 52 October 5, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152633/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9CMfanXhIAC&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false live which goes to his father in Sweden.Krebs Albin May 15, 1975 Dr. Ernst Alexanderson, Radio Pioneer, Dies at 97 https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/dr-ernst-alexanderson-radio-pioneer-dies-at-97.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20170730104920/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/dr-ernst-alexanderson-radio-pioneer-dies-at-97.html July 30, 2017 March 3, 2024 The New York Times June 7–16 – Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.Paull John Attending the First Organic Agriculture Course: Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course at Koberwitz, 1924 European Journal of Social Sciences 2011 21 1 64–70 https://www.academia.edu/9149070 August 24, 2019 March 23, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220323023447/https://www.academia.edu/9149070 live June 8 – British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M.2025-04-06 Remains of Sandy Irvine believed found on Everest after 100 years https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/sandy-irvine-body-found-everest 2025-04-06 Adventure en They are never seen alive again. June 13 – In Hungary, a devastating tornado, "Wildkansas", strikes, in 3 hours leaving a 500–1500m wide and 70 km long path of destruction from landfall at Bia to its end near Vác, completely destroying the village of Páty. 9 people are killed, 50 injured and many left homeless by one of the strongest tornadoes ever not only in Hungary but in Europe, estimated as F4. June 20 – The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is founded. June 30 – J. B. M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa.Colin Martin Tatz Shadow and Substance in South Africa: A Study in Land and Franchise Policies Affecting Africans, 1910-1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNzAAAAMAAJ 1962 University of Natal Press 211 September 22, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152646/https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNzAAAAMAAJ live July July 1924 July 10 – Paavo Nurmi of Finland wins the 1,500 and 5,000 m runs within two hours at the Paris Olympics.Lauri Pihkala & Martti Jukola Olympialaiskisat ennen ja Pariisissa 1924. 2. osa Porvoo WSOY 1924 fi July 12 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24) comes to an end. The constitutional government headed by General Horacio Vázquez, elected in the elections held in March, is established. July 19 – Napalpí massacre: Around 400 indigenous people of Toba ethnicity are massacred in Argentina.https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/287295953.pdf De las fosas al panteón: contrasentidos en las honras de los indios revividos en Carlos Salamanca core.ac.uk Revista Colombiana de Antropología 2008 7–39 14 January 2021 January 15, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210115224352/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/287295953.pdf live August August 1924 August 16 – The Dawes Plan is signed in Paris, temporarily resolving German reparations dispute.Inter-allied Conference on Reparations and Inter-allied Debts Proceedings of the London Reparation Conference July and August 1924 https://books.google.com/books?id=-akDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320 1924 H.M. Stationery Office 320 January 17, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152647/https://books.google.com/books?id=-akDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320#v=onepage&q&f=false live August 28 – August Uprising: Georgia rises against rule by the Soviet Union in an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die.Russian Studies in History https://books.google.com/books?id=mPckAQAAMAAJ 1977 M.E. Sharpe, Incorporated 14 January 17, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152950/https://books.google.com/books?id=mPckAQAAMAAJ live September September 1924 September 9 The Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.Moon-Kie Jung The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Working Class https://books.google.com/books?id=MV4fAQAAMAAJ 1999 University of Michigan 978-0-599-63406-0 69 November 5, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152718/https://books.google.com/books?id=MV4fAQAAMAAJ live The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium. September 9–11 – The Kohat riots break out in India.L. F. Rushbrook-Williams India in 1924-25: A Statement Prepared for Presentation to Parliament in Accordance with the Requirements of the 26th Section of the Government of India Act (5 & 6 Geo. V, Chap 61). https://books.google.com/books?id=lBG2AAAAIAAJ 1925 Government of India Central Publication Branch 22 November 5, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152716/https://books.google.com/books?id=lBG2AAAAIAAJ live September 28 – U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle.Lumen Winter Glenn Degner Minute Epics of Flight https://books.google.com/books?id=nNJ-yMIIwogC 1933 Grosset & Dunlap 121 July 23, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152845/https://books.google.com/books?id=nNJ-yMIIwogC live October October 1924 October – The skull of the Taung Child is discovered in South Africa.Donald E. Johanson Donald C. Johanson Blake Edgar From Lucy to Language https://books.google.com/books?id=-VKEjAbpggcC&pg=PT146 1996 Simon and Schuster 978-0-684-81023-2 146 September 27, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153506/https://books.google.com/books?id=-VKEjAbpggcC&pg=PT146#v=onepage&q&f=false live October 2 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted by the League of Nations Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified. October 6 – 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy. October 9 – Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in Chicago, Illinois (later known as Soldier Field) is officially dedicated."60,000 Voice City's Spirit at Stadium Fete" https://web.archive.org/web/20240207145509/https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-60000-voice-citys-spir/69950747/ February 7, 2024 , Chicago Tribune, October 10, 1924, p. 5 October 10 – Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924. October 12–15 – Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey. October 15 – The first Surrealist Manifesto is published, in which André Breton defines the movement as "pure psychic automatism".J. H. Matthews The Surrealist Mind Susquehanna University Press 1991 9780945636069 31 October 18 – Sweden's Prime Minister Ernst Trygger and his cabinet, is replaced by Hjalmar Branting and his third and last government. October 19 – Abdul Aziz, founder of Saudi Arabia, declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.January 2024 October 25 The British press publishes the Zinoviev letter, released the previous day by the Foreign Office.Adrian Smith The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-1931 https://books.google.com/books?id=JFnHxuuT4FAC&pg=PA308 1996 Taylor & Francis 978-0-7146-4169-0 308 October 5, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153727/https://books.google.com/books?id=JFnHxuuT4FAC&pg=PA308#v=onepage&q&f=false live This purports to be a directive from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Communist International in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain. Authorities of the British Raj in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 21 2 years.https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2832030 Subhash Bose's letters to Sarat Bose from Mandalay Prison Indian Culture October 11, 2023 October 15, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231015095127/https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2832030 live October 27 – The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union. November November 1924 November – The last known sighting of a California grizzly bear is recorded, by Colonel John R. White at Sequoia National Park.Hunter-Trader-Trapper California Grizzly Bear F.J. and W.F. Heer 1925 50 34 November 4 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.Hosts 2024-11-01 100 years ago a female governor was elected. Is it time for a female president? https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5136617/100-years-ago-a-female-governor-was-elected-is-it-time-for-a-female-president 2025-08-05 NPR en 1924 United States presidential election: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Wisconsin Senator, Robert M. La Follette Sr. Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom again November 10 – The Trial of the 149 begins in Estonia, eventually resulting in the conviction of 129 communists, including several members of the Riigikogu.Edward Hallett Carr Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926 https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEVAQAAMAAJ 1964 Macmillan 284 October 25, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153509/https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEVAQAAMAAJ live November 19 – Major-General Sir Lee Stack, British Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, is shot in Cairo by a gang of Egyptian nationalist students, dying the following day.The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with his sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916–1937 Chamberlain Austen Self, Robert C. 1995 Cambridge University Press 0-521-55157-9 300 November 21 – Ali Fethi Okyar forms a new government in Turkey (3rd government). November 26 – The Mongolian People's Republic is proclaimed.Uralic and Altaic Series https://books.google.com/books?id=jo1NAQAAMAAJ 1960 Indiana University 5 October 25, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153518/https://books.google.com/books?id=jo1NAQAAMAAJ live December December 1924 December 1 – A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.Newsletter from Behind the Iron Curtain https://books.google.com/books?id=jtAjAQAAMAAJ 1973 Estonian Information Center 36 January 14, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153500/https://books.google.com/books?id=jtAjAQAAMAAJ live December 19 – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of at least 24 young males in Hanover. December 20 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg PrisonNicholls David Nicholls Gill Adolf Hitler: A Biographical Companion 2000 ABC-CLIO 978-0-87436-965-6 153 https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8L42KtTrw0C&pg=PA153 en June 2, 2021 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153604/https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8L42KtTrw0C&pg=PA153 live after serving nine months for his crucial role in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. December 24 1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash: An airliner crashes soon after takeoff from London's Croydon Airport killing all eight people aboard. This leads to the first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident ever held in the United Kingdom.The Times London Aeroplane Crash at Purley 27 December 1924 10E 43844 Albania becomes a republic. Babbs Switch fire: A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma, United States, kills 36 people, mostly small children. December 30 – American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.William R. Nes Lipids in Evolution https://books.google.com/books?id=NLPfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 6 December 2012 Springer Science & Business Media 978-1-4684-3683-9 8 October 25, 2020 May 11, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153517/https://books.google.com/books?id=NLPfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false live Date unknown Spring – Francophone explorer, spiritualist and former operatic soprano Alexandra David-Néel, disguised as a male pilgrim, makes a 2-month stay in the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet.My Journey to Lhasa (1927). Autumn – In the United States, the final raid of the Renegade period of the Apache Wars takes place, bringing the American Indian Wars to a close, after 315 years. Slavery in Iraq is abolished.Gordon, M. (1989). Slavery in the Arab world. New York: New Amsterdam.October 2023 The International Union of Official Organizations for Tourist Propaganda is established.N. Jayapalan Introduction To Tourism https://books.google.com/books?id=HFWjoeVCLk0C&pg=PA181 2001 Atlantic Publishers & Dist 978-81-7156-977-9 181 The Temporary Slavery Commission is created by the League of Nations.Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. USA: AltaMira Press. 100-121 Births births January thumb|100px|Francisco Macías Nguema thumb|100px|Kim Dae-jung January 1 Jacques Le Goff, French historian and author (d. 2014)https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/influential-french-historian-jacques-le-goff-dies Influential medieval historian Jacques Le Goff dies aged 90 April 1, 2014 The Guardian January 19, 2024 May 15, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190515051958/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/influential-french-historian-jacques-le-goff-dies live Francisco Macías Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979)Political Handbook and Atlas of the World https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia8bAQAAMAAJ 1973 Council on Foreign Relations 33 Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2023)James Clark Fifield The American Bar https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q48AQAAIAAJ 1962 J.C. Fifield Company 111 January 3 – André Franquin, Belgian comics artist (d. 1997) January 4 Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1989)https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-12-28-8903210311-story.html Walter Ris, swimmer who won Olympic Gold December 28, 1989 Kenan Heise Chicago Tribune 23 September 2020 January 21, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210121061736/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-12-28-8903210311-story.html live Marianne Werner, German shot putter (d. 2023)https://www.olympic.org/marianne-werner Marianne Werner Olympic.org International Olympic Committee 26 December 2020 July 20, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200720121959/https://www.olympic.org/marianne-werner live January 5 – Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician and athlete (d. 2012)Who's who in Malaysia and Guide to Singapore https://books.google.com/books?id=jNgUAQAAIAAJ 1977 J. V. 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