August 1924

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The following events occurred in August 1924:

August 1, 1924 (Friday)

August 2, 1924 (Saturday)

August 3, 1924 (Sunday)

  • Germany observed its first memorial day on the tenth anniversary of its declaration of war on France. Outside the Reichstag a special ceremony was held as prayers for the dead were recited, church bells rang and a gun salute was fired. At the stroke of noon the entire country came to a standstill for two minutes of silence. Communists disrupted the moment of silence at the Reichstag by shouting slogans and throwing red leaflets into the air until police moved in with their clubs to restore order. Many fist fights also broke out in the crowd between various extremist political factions.
    • Berlin Jews held a separate service for Jewish soldiers, as a Jewish preacher was forbidden from delivering a prayer in the Reichstag ceremony.
  • The Soviet raid on Stołpce occurred.
  • Giuseppe Campari of Italy won the 1924 French Grand Prix.
  • Born: Leon Uris, novelist, in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2003)
  • Died: Joseph Conrad, 66, Polish-born author

August 4, 1924 (Monday)

  • Jamaican-born political leader Marcus Garvey was indicted by a grand jury for filing an allegedly fraudulent income tax return for 1921.

August 5, 1924 (Tuesday)

August 6, 1924 (Wednesday)

August 7, 1924 (Thursday)

August 8, 1924 (Friday)

August 9, 1924 (Saturday)

August 10, 1924 (Sunday)

  • Austrian police said they had uncovered a Soviet slush fund used for stirring up unrest and revolt in the Balkans.
  • Born: Nancy Buckingham, gothic and romance novelist, in Bristol, England (alive in 2021)

August 11, 1924 (Monday)

August 12, 1924 (Tuesday)

  • Paris newspaper Le Journal claimed to have indisputable proof that the Soviet Union had established a secret tribunal assigned with the task of creating revolutionary activity in European colonies.
  • Ex-boxing champion Kid McCoy came home drunk to his Los Angeles apartment and violently murdered his live-in mistress after she told him what her friends thought of him.
  • Born: Derek Shackleton, cricketer, in Todmorden, England (d. 2007); Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, in Jalandhar, British India (d. 1988)

August 13, 1924 (Wednesday)

  • Kid McCoy went to a shop owned by his mistress' husband looking to kill him as well, but he was not present so McCoy took 11 hostages, shooting one in the leg who tried to escape. When his intended target failed to show up, McCoy fled until police apprehended him.
  • The mutiny charge against John Ross Campbell was dropped when Crown barrister Travers Humphreys appeared before the court and explained, "Since process has been issued in this case it has been represented that the object and intention of the article in question was not to endeavour to seduce men in the fighting forces from their duty and allegiance, or to induce them to disobey lawful orders, but that it was comment upon armed military force being used by the State for the suppression of industrial disputes." He also said he had been instructed not to offer any evidence upon the charge, and so Campbell was freed. Attorney General Sir Patrick Hastings had gotten cold feet after learning that Campbell was an injured war veteran and that a trial before a jury was likely to fail; prosecution was also opposed by Labour government backbenchers.

August 14, 1924 (Thursday)

August 15, 1924 (Friday)

August 16, 1924 (Saturday)

  • An agreement to enact the Dawes Plan was signed in London by the European powers, pending formal ratification by the respective parliaments of the countries concerned. The French and Belgians agreed to end their occupation of the Ruhr in one year's time.
  • The body of Giacomo Matteotti was found hastily buried in a shallow ditch outside of Rome.
  • Born: Inez Voyce, baseball player, in Rathbun, Iowa (d. 2022)
  • Died: Roy Daugherty, 54, Old Western outlaw (killed in gunfight with lawmen)

August 17, 1924 (Sunday)

August 18, 1924 (Monday)

  • The occupied towns of Offenburg and Appenweier were evacuated by French troops as a gesture of good faith on France's part to enact the London pact.
  • The two planes attempting to fly around the world were damaged attempting to take off from Reykjavik to Greenland because they were too loaded down with gasoline.

August 19, 1924 (Tuesday)

August 20, 1924 (Wednesday)

August 21, 1924 (Thursday)

August 22, 1924 (Friday)

August 23, 1924 (Saturday)

August 24, 1924 (Sunday)

August 25, 1924 (Monday)

August 26, 1924 (Tuesday)

August 27, 1924 (Wednesday)

August 28, 1924 (Thursday)

August 29, 1924 (Friday)

  • The German Reichstag voted 314 to 117 to accept the London protocol on the Dawes report. The vote was not expected to pass so easily but moderate right-wing factions gave it their support, giving rise to rumors that they had extracted concessions of cabinet posts in exchange for their vote. Erich Ludendorff marched out after the vote and called it "infamous".
  • Edward, Prince of Wales arrived in New York City aboard the RMS Berengaria and began his visit to the United States and Canada.
  • Railway Accident Harrapa India On this day , two trains of indian railway collided near harrapa town of Punjab . This accident resulted in death of 107 passengers & 2 railway servants .

August 30, 1924 (Saturday)

August 31, 1924 (Sunday)


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