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Top Song(s)
• George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
• Isham Jones - It Had to Be You
• Al Jolson - California, Here I Come
• Paul Whiteman - Somebody Loves Me
• Wendell Hall - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
Top Film(s)
• Sherlock Jr.
• The Last Laugh
• Greed
• The Navigator
• The Thief of Bagdad
Best Selling Book(s)
• A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
• When We Were Very Young - A.A. Milne
• Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie
• The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
• The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner
Famous Deaths
• January 21 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary, first Premier of the Soviet Union
• February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
• April 4 – Arnold Pick, Czechoslovakian neurologist and psychiatrist
• April 19 – Paul Boyton, Irish-American extreme water sports pioneer
• July 14 - Isabella Ford, British socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer
• August 7 – Bruce Grit, African-American historian, ex-slave
• August 15 – Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, British Private Secretary to King Edward VII
• September 24 - Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 13th President of Guatemala
• October 18 - Franz Schrader, French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer, and landscape painter
• November 20 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association
Medical/Science/Technology
• Edwin Hubble announces his discovery that Andromeda, believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy.
• The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, becomes operational as an astrophysical observatory.
• 1056 Azalea is discovered.
• The first inactive tetanus vaccine is discovered by Gaston Ramon, C. Zoeller and P. Descombey and produced.
• The first scarlet fever vaccine is discovered by George F. Dick and Gladys Dick.
• Dismantling of James Watt's workshop for display in the Science Museum, London, commences.
• German mathematicians David Hilbert proposes Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel.
• German physiologist and psychiatrist Hans Berger records the first human electroencephalogram.
• Johnson & Johnson begin mass producing Band-Aid.
• Kleenex available to the general public.
Political Events
• January 21 – The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.
• February 7 - Benito Mussolini's Italian government exchanges diplomats with USSR.
• February 18 - US Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to Teapot Dome scandal.
• March 6 - British Labor government cuts military budget.
• April 6 – Italian general election, 1924: Fascists win the elections in Italy with a two-thirds majority.
• April 11 - Socialists win Danish parliamentary elections.
• May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act.
• June 3 - Gila Wilderness Area established by US Forest Service.
• July 12 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24) comes to an end.
National Events
• January 12 - History of Science Society organized at Boston.
• January 29 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland.
• February 8 – Gee Jon suffers the 1st state execution using a gas chamber in the U.S.
• February 14 – International Business Machines (IBM) is founded in New York State.
• March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah.
• March 4 - The song "Happy Birthday To You" is published by Claydon Sunny.
• April 15 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
• June 15 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile.
• September 28 – U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe.
Worldwide Events
• January 11 - A republic is proclaimed in Greece; King George II is deposed.
• January 25 – The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.
• February 22 - Treaty of Rome: The Kingdom of Italy annexes the Free State of Fiume.
• March 3 – The Ottoman Caliphate, a remnant of the Ottoman monarchy abolished on November 1, 1922.
• April 1 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• May 26 – Harry Grindell Matthews attempts to demonstrate his "death ray" to the War Office in the United Kingdom.
• July 19 – Napalpí massacre: Around 400 indigenous people of Toba ethnicity are massacred in Argentina.
• September 9 - The Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
• September 9 - The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium.
• October 6 – 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy.