A year ago, we started a new liturgical year that included the start of the jubilee year in the Catholic church it was also a high-octane political year in which the 45th president of the United States Donald Trump ran once again and someone took a shot at. The Olympics also happen, and future president of the United States Jimmy Carter was born and was still alive a 100 years later.
A jubilee year, a predental election, and the Olympics also happen a century ago. So, I present in this latest entry in my ongoing look at history with a side-by-side comparison of events in the second half of 1924 and 2024.
July 24
1924 Paintings
Celestial Eyes is a 1924 painting by Spanish painter Francis Cugat and preserved at the Graphic Arts Collection at Princeton University Library.
The Art Deco style work is the cover of Francis Scott Fitzgerald‘s novel The Great Gatsby, set in the 1920s Jazz Age and considered one of the most representative novels of American literature.
Miss Collins is a painting by Australian artist William Beckwith McInnes. The painting depicts Miss Gladys Neville Collins, the daughter of J.T. Collins, lawyer, Victorian State Parliamentary draughtsman, and trustee of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria.
Billy Budd was Herman Melville‘s unfinished book at his death in 1891 which found its way to print in 1924.
July 1, 1924 – Full time airmail service began in the U.S. with a fleet of airplanes transporting the mail day and night.
July 1, 2024 – US Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity from prosecution for all official acts, substantially altering the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump – On This Day
July 2, 2024– President Julius Maada Bio signs into law a bill banning child marriage. The law becomes official on July 5, 2024. This protects young girls under 18 years old, as in this is a country where a third of all girls are married before adulthood.
July 3, 1924 – U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover submitted a paper before the World Power Conference in Wembley, London urging America’s power plants to be linked together to save energy.
July 3, 2025
Scientists announced the discovery of the world’s oldest cave painting, depicting three people gathered around a large red pig, estimated to be at least 51,200 years old, in Leang Karampurang cave in the Maros-Pangkep region, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Researchers learn Hippos can fly – or at least become airborne – in a UK study of their footfall patterns showed them trotting at such speed their feet all left the ground. – On This Day
Israel approves largest land grab in occupied West Bank in three decades, 12.7 square km (nearly 5 square m) in the Jordan Valley, aiming to prevent a Palestinian state. – On This Day
July 4, 1924 – The Caesar salad was created in Mexico by Italian-born restaurateur Caesar Cardini at his restaurant in Tijuana, Caesar’s. According to the Cardini family, Caesar had been unprepared for the large number of Americans crossing the border to legally purchase liquor at his eatery during the long Fourth of July weekend, and conserved his available supply of food by putting together the large salad in the middle of the dining room.
A new version of the Progressive Party, unrelated to the previous organization nicknamed the “Bull Moose” Party, opened a convention in Cleveland and nominated U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin as a third-party candidate for U.S. president.
July 4, 2024 – Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
July 5, 1924 – July 27, 1924 – 1924 Summer Olympics – The British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won the 100 m and the 400 m events, respectively. Liddell refused to compete in the 100-metre sprint because it was held on a Sunday, and he was an observant Christian. Their stories were depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In addition, Douglas Lowe won the 800-metre competition.
July 7, 1924 – Calvin Coolidge Jr., the 16-year-old son of the President of the United States, died at 10:30 in the morning from sepsis caused by an infection on his foot, developed from blisters after having played a game of tennis on the White House grounds a week earlier. The president and Mrs. Coolidge were at their son’s bedside.
British track athlete Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who faced anti-Semitic prejudice, won the 100 meter sprint at the Summer Olympics in Paris.
July 7, 2024 – For the first time more than 3 million passengers were recorded passing through US airport security in one day, amid an increase in air travel in the US.
Heat wave across Western American states breaks temperature records, including in Las Vegas which reaches an all-time record of 120 degrees.
July 10, 1924 – Paavo Nurmi of Finland wins the 1,500 and 5,000 m runs within two hours at the Paris Olympics.
July 12, 1924 – 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 13, 2025 – While campaigning for the 2024 United States presidential election, President Donald Trump is shot in the right ear in an assassination attempt at a rally he held near Butler, Pennsylvania.
19th-century explorer Matthew Flinders, who first circumnavigated Australia and named it, is reburied in Donington, Lincolnshire, the village of his birth. – On This Day
July 15, 2025 – Federal judge Aileen Cannon dismisses Trump’s classified documents case.
The 2024 Republican National Convention was held at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee until July 18. Trump chose Senator JD Vance from Ohio as his running-mate on the first day.
July 16, 1924 – The first major nationwide news story in the U.S. about a tall, hairy “apeman” that walked upright, in the Pacific Northwest was published in The Oregonian, the largest circulation newspaper in Portland, Oregon, and then picked up by the Associated Press. In 1958, the mysterious creature would first be described as “Bigfoot” because of the large footprints observed after a sighting in northern California.
July 12, 2024 – In Kenya, Africa the bodies of six females are found in a quarry near the Mukuru kwa Njenga slum of Nairobi. The prime suspect is arrested and confesses to killing 42 women on July 15, 2024. Another man is also arrested.
July 19, 1924 – Pitcher Herman “Hi” Bell of the St. Louis Cardinals started and finished a doubleheader baseball game, pitching all 9 innings of a 6 to 1 win over the Boston Braves and all 9 innings of the second game of the day, a 2 to 1 win. Bell was the last Major League Baseball pitcher to pitch all 18 innings of two games on the same day.
July 19, 2024 – Global IT outages impact a variety of businesses and organizations across the world.
Thirteen sharpnose sharks are the first to test positive for cocaine off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. – On This Day
July 20, 2024 – Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee with a 90 minute speech, longest acceptance speech in history.
And I say it often, if you took the ten worst presidents in the history of the United States, think of it the ten worst edit them up. They will not have done the damage that Biden has done, only going to use the term once. Biden. I’m not going to use the name anymore. Just one time.
July 21, 1924 – ‘The Pageant of Empire: An Historical Epic‘ began at Empire Stadium in Wembley, London as the highlight of the British Empire Exhibition. Directed by Frank Lascelles, the pageant featured 15,000 people, 300 horses, 500 donkeys, 730 camels, 72 monkeys, 1,000 doves, seven elephants, three bears and one macaw, and featured musical tributes to events in British history and to different countries of the Empire.
July 21, 2024 – Incumbent United States President Joe Biden ends his candidacy in the 2024 United States presidential election. Vice President Kamala Harris launches her campaign for president, receiving Biden’s support and becoming the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party the next day.
July 22, 1924 – Japan passed an amendment to its Nationality Law so that Japanese children born in the United States and other jus soli countries would automatically lose their Japanese nationality unless it was expressly retained within 14 days of birth. The amendment also allowed dual citizens in those countries to easily renounce their Japanese citizenship.
July 22, 2024 – Hottest day on Earth: average global temperature of 17.15°C (62.87°F) surpasses record set the previous day, according to EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
July 23, 1924 – The first official flag of the U.S. state of Washington was unveiled at the office of the Washington Secretary of State at Olympia.
July 24, 2024 – “Inside Out 2” surpasses “Frozen II” to become the highest-grossing animated film in history, making $1.46 billion worldwide. – On This Day
July 25, 2024 – “Piano Man” singer Billy Joel performs the 150th and final show of his 10-year, once-a-month residency at Madison Square Garden in New York City.– On This Day
July 26 – August 11, 2024 – The 2024 Summer Olympics are held in Paris, France. The controversial opening ceremony and the boxing match of Luca Hámori and Imane Khelif spark international debate.
July 26, 2024 – A performance staged as part of the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, causes controversy when it is seen by some parties as mocking the Last Supper of Jesus Christ and more specifically Leonardo Da Vinci‘s famous fresco depiction of it.
July 27, 1924 – The closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympics were conducted at Colombes Stadium in Paris. The United States led the final medal count with 45 gold medals.
July 29, 1924 – The practicality of airmail was demonstrated for the public when the U.S. Army air service carried a cargo of mail from Nashville, Tennessee to Chicago in 2 hours and 29 minutes.
August 24
August 1, 2024 – 2024 American–Russian prisoner exchange: 26 individuals are released from Ankara Esenboğa Airport in the largest prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia since the Cold War.
The three American nationals released in the exchange are joined by government officials and staff on their return flight to the United States: Evan Gershkovich (bottom-left), Paul Whelan (second from right), and Alsu Kurmasheva (bottom-right)
August 2, 2024 – Aerosmith canceled Peace Out: The Farewell Tour after only three shows and announced their retirement from touring due to permanent damage to frontman Steven Tyler‘s vocal cords.
August 4, 1924 – The British flying team of navigator Archibald Stuart-MacLaren, pilot W. N. Plenderleith, and flight engineer Sergeant W. H. Andrews ended their round-the-world flight attempt when their amphibious plane had to make a forced landing in the Bering Sea and was badly damaged. They were rescued from Bering Island by the Royal Navy ship HMCS Thiepval.
August 5, 1924 – Harold Gray‘s Little Orphan Annie makes its debut.
August 5, 2024 – Harold Gray‘s Little Orphan Annie turns 100.
August 6, 1924 – Con artist Charles Ponzi, known for the “Ponzi scheme“, was released from prison in Plymouth, Massachusetts after serving less than four years of a five year federal sentence. He then reported to the District Attorney in Boston, where he faced 10 indictments by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was arrested again. A benefactor from West Roxbury put up his bond of $14,000 and Ponzi was freed until a trial date could be set.
August 7, 1924 – The Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications, signed by 34 nations on September 12, 1923, took effect 30 days after ratification by two nations.
August 7, 2024 – Three Taylor Swift “Eras Tour” concerts in Vienna, Austria, are canceled after authorities uncover a planned terrorist attack and arrest three people. – On This Day
August 10, 2024 – Israel airstrike on a school and mosque sheltering displaced people in Gaza, an alleged Hama command post, kills at least 93 people including children. – On This Day
Mark and Kristin land in Ireland for a vacation.
The Challenges and Spiritual Lessons of Traveling
August 11, 1924 – Lee de Forest filmed U.S. President Calvin Coolidge on the White House lawn using his experimental Phonofilm sound-on-film process, resulting in the earliest sound film footage of an American president.
August 11, 2024 – Closing ceremony for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics at Stade de France features Tom Cruise performing a stunt jump from the roof. – On This Day
August 13, 2024 – 2024 Kolkata rape and murder: Thousands of doctors and students take part in protests and rallies against domestic violence in cities across the world after the rape and murder of a 31 year old post-graduate trainee doctor in Kolkata on August 9, 2024.
August 14, 2024
A Swiss Catholic church, Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, installs an AI Jesus in its confessional for a two-month experiment called “Deus in Machina”. – On This Day
New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hits his 300th career home run in a 10-2 win over the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago; he reaches this milestone faster than Ralph Kiner (in games) and Babe Ruth (in at-bats). – On This Day
The World Health Organization (WHO) declares mpox a public health emergency of international concern for the second time in two years, following the spread of the virus in African countries.
Human ageing is found to progress in two accelerated bursts from the ages of 44 and 60, rather than being a gradual and linear process.
August 15, 2024 – Death toll in Gaza from the Israel-Gaza War reaches at least 40,000. – On This Day
August 16, 2024 – US President Joe Biden designates the site of the 1908 two-day race riot in Springfield, Illinois, as a national monument, intended to be a solemn reminder of the events which sparked the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). – On This Day
August 18, 1924 – American showman Tex Austin, brought his world travelling Rodeo to Croke Park in Dublin making it the first rodeo opened in Ireland.
August 19, 1924 -The first ascent of the 2,603 metres (8,540 ft) Mount Fitzsimmons, in British Columbia was made by a party of Canadian mountaineers from the British Columbia Mountaineering Club.
August 20, 1924 – In the U.S. state of South Dakota, Doane Robinson of the state historical society invited sculptor Gutzon Borglum to come to the Black Hills region in the western part of the state to consider being hired to sculpt a monument on the side of a mountain.
August 21, 1924 –U.S. President Coolidge made public a letter he wrote to the National Negro Business League, praising the African-American population for “the assumption of a full and honorable part in the economic life of the nation” and his belief in equal rights for all races, though not with any assistance from the federal government.
August 21, 2024 – Afghanistan’s Taliban regime issues new vice and virtue laws banning the sound of women’s voices or singing in public and traveling anywhere without a male escort. – On This Day
August 22, 1924 – As Mars was making its closest approach to Earth, radio stations heard what were believed to be “signals which apparently were operated by some intelligent force, yet which could be identified with no earthly telegraph code” on their receivers. Engineers pointed out after the reports that the radio receiving technology available on Earth at the time would not be able to pick up a telegraph signal from more than 10,000 miles (16,000 km) away and that acquiring signals from 34 million miles away would be “highly improbable, if not impossible.
August 22, 2024 – The largest diamond in more than a century, at 2,492 carats, is found in a mine in Botswana and is displayed by the country’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi. – On This Day
August 23, 2024 – Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels steals a base and hits a grand slam in a 7-3 win at home over Tampa Bay, becoming just the sixth MLB player to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season; he does so in the fewest number of games, 126.
August 24, 2024 – A suspicious fire destroys Jay Littleton Ball Park in Ontario, California; the 1937 structure is used for several movies, including “Eight Men Out,” “A League of Their Own,” and “The Babe”. – On This Day
August 25, 1924 –Little Robinson Crusoe, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan
August 28, 1924 – The Iron Horse, directed by John Ford, starring George O’Brien and Madge Bellamy
August 28 – September 8, 2024 – The 2024 Summer Paralympics are held in Paris, France.
August 30, 1924 (Saturday) – With hyperinflation in Germany out of control in the Weimar Republic, the almost worthless German papiermark was finally taken out of circulation. The Reichsbank replaced the Rentenmark of 1923 (whose value had fallen by two-thirds in one year) with the new Reichsmark coin, which was exchanged at 1:1 ratio with the Rentenmark and at a 1,000,000,000,000:1 (one trillion to 1) with the papiermark.
August 30, 2024 – Reagan
September 24
September 1, 1924 – The Dawes Plan, a restructuring of the payment of reparations owed by Germany to the victorious Allied Powers of World War I, went into effect, three days after it was approved by Germany.
September 2, 1924 – It was reported from Moscow that a bomb had been found in Lenin’s Tomb but that a guard had found it before it could explode.
September 2, 2024 – The Brazilian Supreme Court upholds a decision to block the social media platform X (also known as Twitter) over what the Brazilian government determined to be rampant disinformation and Elon Musk‘s failure to name a legal representative to the country.
Joey Chestnut sets a new world record by eating 83 hot dogs in Netflix’s “Unfinished Beef” Labor Day Showdown. – On This Day
September 5, 1924 – The three remaining planes of the American round-the-world flyers (Chicago, New Orleans and Boston II) and their two-member crews returned to U.S. airspace and landed near Brunswick, Maine in a dense fog. To complete their journey, they were still required to return to Seattle.
September 6, 1924
The fourth annual Miss America Pageant was held at Atlantic City, New Jersey and won by Miss Philadelphia, Ruth Malcomson (1906—1988). The 1922 and 1923 winner, Mary Katherine Campbell (who had entered from Ohio as Miss Columbus), placed First Runner-Up. The pageant marked the last time that previous winners were eligible to enter the Miss America pageant.
Chicago‘s new Soldier Field, referred to at the time as the Grant Park Stadium, held its first public event, admitting 45,000 paying customers to watch the two-day Police Athletic Games, a fundraiser for the Chicago Police Benevolent Association. Events included a chariot race and a game of motorcycle polo.
John Dillinger made his first attempt at a major crime when he and a friend attempted to rob a grocery store in Mooresville, Indiana. The two were shortly apprehended and sent to jail.
September 6, 2024 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
September 8, 2024 – Pope Francis celebrates mass in the remote jungle town of Vanimo during his visit to Papua New Guinea. – On This Day
September 9, 1924 – The Hanapepe massacre, a gun battle in the U.S. Territory of Hawaii, killed 20 people, most of them striking Filipino workers at the McBryde sugar plantation on the island of Kauai.
September 9, 2024 – World’s first whole-eye and face transplant is declared successful for a 47-year-old Arkansas man more than a year after the operation. – On This Day
September 10, 1924 – The Leopold and Loeb trial ended with a sentence of imprisonment for “life plus 99 years” for both Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb for the May 21 kidnapping and murder of Bobby Franks, instead of the death penalty the state had sought.[42] Loeb would remain at the Illinois State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois for the rest of his life, serving a little more than 11 years until being killed by another inmate on January 28, 1936. Leopold lived 35 more years, dying of a diabetes-related heart attack on August 29, 1971.
September 10, 2024 – Pope holds one of the largest masses of his papacy with 600,000 people near Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste. – On This Day
Rare survival, the Shem Tov Bible, combining Jewish, Christian, and Islamic artistic traditions, completed by Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in Soria, Spain, in 1312, sells at auction for $6.9 million. – On This Day
September 12, 2024 – The first commercial spacewalk is conducted by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as part of the Polaris Dawn mission, which also includes the highest altitude orbit by a human crew since the Apollo program. – On This Day
Crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission takes the first commercial spacewalk during a five-day journey through Earth’s orbit, traveling the farthest in space of any human since NASA’s Apollo program. – On This Day
September 15, 2025 – Man arrested and charged with the attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump, spotted while the presidential candidate was playing golf. – On This Day
September 18, 1924 – At the Rivoli Theater in Manhattan, audiences were first shown pre-recorded sound films of the major candidates in the 1924 U.S. presidential election, listening to addresses by Republican president Calvin Coolidge, Democratic candidate John W. Davis and Progressive candidate Robert M. La Follette.
September 19, 2024 – Japanese two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani becomes the first player in MLB history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season; slugs 3 home runs in a 10-RBI game as the LA Angels rout the Miami Marlins 20-4 in Miami. – On This Day
September 20, 1924 – The Nuns of the Battlefield monument by Jerome Connor was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
Chicago Cubs pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander won the 300th game of his career, pitching all 12 innings of a 7–3 win over the New York Giants.
September 20, 2024 – Transformers One
September 21, 1924 – The Autostrada, the world’s first divided highway, opened to motor traffic in Italy. An improvement to existing limited-access roads, the Autostrada had only one lane in each direction and no exits along its high-speed 42.6 kilometres (26.5 mi) route between Milan and Varese.
September 21, 2024 – Google signs a 20-year deal to buy power from the Three Mile nuclear power plant, the site of a nuclear accident in 1979. – On This Day
September 24, 1924 – The Indian civil rights organization Samata Sainik Dal was founded by B. R. Ambedkar with a mission of “safeguarding the rights of all oppressed sections of Indian society.
September 24, 2024 -Former US retail giant Kmart confirms it is closing its last full-scale store in mainland US in Bridgehampton, New York. – On This Day
September 26, 2024 – US President Joe Biden addresses the UN for the last time, calling on Israel and Hamas to come to a ceasefire in Gaza, saying “I truly believe we’re at another inflection point in world history“. – On This Day
Poverty in Argentina rises to more than half (52.9%), up from 41.7% in six months, for its population of 46 million, with inflation at 230%, according to new figures.
World’s longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamata, aged 88, has his name cleared by a Japanese court after 56 years.
September 27, 2024 – The Wild Robot
September 29, 1924 – Italy’s Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini announced plans to build the world’s highest skyscraper in Rome. Italian architect Mario Palanti proposed a 1,500-foot (460 m) high pyramidal structure with 4,500 rooms, featuring a concert hall and a huge gymnasium for the training of Olympic athletes.
September 30, 2024 – The UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power for electric generation, after 142 years of using the energy source.
October 24
October 1, 1924, future U.S. President Jimmy Carter is born.
Ireland‘s Defence Forces (Óglaigh na hÉireann) were formed within the Irish Free State by the unification of the Irish Army, the Irish Naval Service, the Irish Air Corps and the Reserve Defence Forces
October 1, 2024, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter turns 100.
October 1924 – The skull of the Taung Child is discovered in Taung, South Africa and described as a new species by Raymond Dart in 1925. The skull was one of the first early human fossils to be found in Africa, and the first evidence that humanity originated from the continent.
October 2, 1924 – Cesáreo Onzari of the Argentina national football team scored the first goal from a corner kick in international play after the rules of soccer football had been amended on June 14 by the International Football Association Board.[11] The first goal in a professional league game had come on August 23. Onzari’s goal came against Uruguay, which had recently won the 1924 Olympic title. For this reason the direct goal from a corner kick is called an Olympic goal or gol olímpico in Latin America.
October 2, 2024 – The Nintendo Museum opens in Uji, Japan, focusing on the company’s 135 year history. – On This Day
October 3, 2024 – World’s longest treasure hunt, based on 11 puzzles originally set by Max Valentin, comes to an end in France after 31 years with the discovery of a golden owl statuette. Historical Events in October 2024 – On This Day
October 4, 2024 – Moon Music by Coldplay
October 12–15, 1924 – Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey.
October 11, 2024
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Archaeologists announce the discovery of one of the oldest churches in the world from the 4th century AD during excavations in Artaxata, Armenia.
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese anti-nuclear organization Nihon Hidankyo “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”.
Possible remains of mountaineer Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, including a foot, shoe, and labeled sock, are announced as discovered on Mt. Everest. He disappeared 100 years ago with George Mallory.
October 13, 1924 – The National Hockey League, which consisted solely of Canadian teams for its first seven seasons, became international for the first time with the addition of an American team. Charles Adams, a U.S. businessman and owner of a chain of grocery stores purchased one of the NHL’s first two expansion franchises for $15,000 (equivalent to $269,000 in 2024 and named his team the Boston Bruins.
The Navigator starring Buster Keaton.
October 15, 1924 -President Calvin Coolidge used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare the Statue of Liberty a national monument.
October 17, 2024 – The National Gallery has banned liquids, such as baby formula and milk, from its premises following a number of attacks on artworks. In 2024, the National Gallery celebrated its 200th anniversary with a range of programs, events, and collaborations.
October 18, 1924 (Saturday) – The first “round-the-world” wireless radio communication took place between locations in New Zealand and the United Kingdom as favorable atmospheric conditions permitted amateur ham radio operators to hear each other over a distance of more than 19,000 kilometres (12,000 mi). Amateurs in both countries heard signals the night before.
October 22, 1924 – The Toastmasters International club was founded by Ralph C. Smedley with the opening in Santa Ana, California, of the first Toastmasters Club.
October 24, 2024 – New largest-known prime number 2^136279841-1 found by programmer Luke Durant as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. –– On This Day
October 25, 1924 – The world’s leading air conditioner brand, Daikin Industries, was founded in Osaka, Japan (as name of predecessors for Osaka Metal Industry).
The Sherlock Holmes short story “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published for the first time in Collier’s Weekly in the United States.
October 27, 2024 – A long-lost waltz by Frédéric Chopin is reportedly rediscovered after 200 years at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan.
October 31, 1924
The Japan Swimming Federation was founded. It is affiliated to World Aquatics, the Asia Swimming Federation, the Japanese Olympic Committee and the Japan Amateur Sports Association.
The Ukraine sports club Dynamo was founded.
November 24
November 1924 – The last known sighting of a California grizzly bear is recorded, by Colonel John R. White at Sequoia National Park.
November 1, 2024 – The United Nations declares the situation in northern Gaza as “apocalyptic”, with the entire Palestinian population at “imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence” due to Israeli bombardments and aid blockage.
Collins Dictionary names “brat” as its word of the year for 2024. – On This Day
November 2, 1924 – Chicago Tribune –Little Orphan Annie premiered 3 months earlier on August 5, 1924.
The first newspaper crossword in the United Kingdom was published as a feature of the Sunday Express.
November 3, 2024 – Taylor Swift concludes The Eras Tour in the United States at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin falls through a hole in the stage while performing at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne.
November 4, 1924 – 1924 United States presidential election: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Wisconsin Senator, Robert M. La Follette Sr.
French sawmill foreman Joseph Marie Guillaume Seznec was convicted of murder after an eight day trial, following the mysterious disappearance of salesman Pierre Quéméneur, despite no evidence that Quéméneur had been killed. Seznec would be imprisoned for more than 20 years at the Devil’s Island prison off of the coast of South America before being released in 1947. The case would be reopened in 2006, more than 50 years after Seznec was killed in a pedestrian accident, but the conviction would be upheld.
November 4, 2024 – A new survey of Japanese teenagers reveals only a fifth of 15-18-year-old boys have experienced their first kiss, the lowest level since 1974. – On This Day
November 5, 1924 -The last Emperor of China, Puyi, is evicted from the Forbidden City, severing the last imperial connection to the palace.
November 5, 2024 – 2024 United States presidential election: U.S. President Donald Trump defeats incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris to win a second nonconsecutive term. Trump became the second person in American history to win a second nonconsecutive term, after Grover Cleveland in 1892.
November 6, 1924 – The A. A. Milne poetry collection When We Were Very Young was published.
November 8, 1924 – The Sherlock Holmes short story “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published for the first time in Collier’s Weekly in the United States.
November 8, 2024 – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
November 9, 2024 – Beyoncé becomes the most nominated artist in Grammy history, 99 in total, after receiving 11 nominations for 2025, including record, song and country song of the year.
November 12, 2024 – “Orbital” by British writer Samantha Harvey, set on the International Space Station, wins the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction. – On This Day
November 13, 2024 – World’s largest coral, larger than a blue whale and 300 years old, is found off the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean. – On This Day
November 15, 1924 – Alice Hunting in Africa is the 9th of the Alice Comedies. They were a series of live-action animated shorts created by Walt Disney in which a live action little girl named Alice (originally played by Virginia Davis) and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape. The shorts were the first work by what ultimately became The Walt Disney Company.
November 15, 2024 – The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) Is rediscovered in the Elba Protected Area of Southeast Egypt, 5,000 years after the species was believed to have been extirpated from the region.
November 20, 2024 – World’s tallest woman, Rumeysa Gelgi, at 7 ft 0.71 in (215.16 cm) from Turkey, meets the world’s shortest woman, Jyoti Amge, at 2 ft 0.7 in (62.8 cm) from India, at the Savoy Hotel in London, to celebrate Guinness World Records Day. – On This Day
November 21, 1924
Hobbit creator J. R. R. Tolkien’s son Christopher Tolkien is born.
(November 21, 1924 – January 16, 2020)
November 21, 2024 – Researchers using the Very Large Telescope announce the first-ever “close-up” image of a star outside the Milky Way Galaxy, WOH G64
Controversial artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan sells for $6.2 million at auction in New York; new owner Justin Sun says he will eat it. – – On This Day
November 22, 2024
Wicked Act 1 opens in theaters.
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Gladiator II
November 23, 1924 – Edwin Hubble announced his discovery 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. Hubble’s discovery was disclosed by him to The New York Times.[93] Hubble’s paper was published on December 30 after peer review and presented by him at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 1.
November 25, 1924 – Radio stations in the United States broadcast an “hour of silence” between 10 and 11 p.m., setting it aside for international broadcasting tests. Listeners as far west as Duluth, Minnesota reported being able to hear broadcasting from England, France and Spain.
November 26, 1924 – The World Child Welfare Charter was approved by the League of Nations General Assembly, becoming the first human rights document approved by an inter-governmental institution.
November 27, 1924 (Thursday) – The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City by the R. H. Macy & Co. department store, initially as the “Macy’s Christmas Parade”.
On the same date – The Bear Mountain Bridge, with a main span of 1,631 feet (497 m), at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world, opened in the U.S. state of New York.
Released Nov 27, 2024
Moana 2 Opens In Theaters
November 28, 2024 – The 98th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held on November 28, 2024, in New York City and was shown to viewers live on NBC and Peacock that same day from 8:30 a.m. to noon EST. The reason that this is # 98 and not 100 is because the Parade was canceled in 1942, 1943, and 1944 due to World War II, as materials like rubber and helium were needed for the war effort. The parade resumed in 1945 and has continued annually since then. Santa’s Sleigh is the only float in Parade history that has appeared in all 98 and counting Parades. His float has also had the most design changes, with 25 made as of 2024.
November 30, 1924 – Hannen Swaffer, the editor of the British newspaper The People recounted a séance he had attended along with Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Robert McAlpine and others. Swaffer said that the medium contacted Lord Northcliffe, who admitted that Doyle was right about life beyond the grave. “I distrusted your judgement, but I see now how wrong I was”, the spirit voice of Northcliffe was quoted as saying.
December 24
December 1, 1924
A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d’état attempt fails in Estonia.
December 1, 2024
The New Liturgical Year Begins
December 2, 2024
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premiers on Disney +
December 4, 2024 – The Children’s Train
December 5, 2024 – Mathematicians solve a 122-year-old puzzle known as “Dudeney’s dissection” on how to dissect an equilateral triangle into a square using the smallest number of pieces. On This Day
December 8, 1924 – Ugandan-English runner and human rights activist Deo Kato (37) completes trek from Cape Town, South Africa to London, England to highlight the story of human migration; 8,230-mile journey took 518 days.
December 8, 2024 – 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in the country’s war with Russia, with 370,000 injured, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. – On This Day
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift concludes “The Eras Tour” with her 149th show, at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada; the 21 month international concert tour is the highest-grossing of all time, with box office gross just over $2 billion. – On This Day
December 9, 2024 – Google unveils a new quantum computer, capable of performing a mathematical calculation in 5 minutes that the most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years. –– On This Day
December 10,1924 – The Society for Human Rights (SHR), the first gay rights organization in the United States, was founded in Chicago by Henry Gerber.
December 11, 1924 – The absolute world record for speed, 279.481 miles per hour (449.781 km/h), was set by the Bernard SIMB V.2 airplane,designed by French aviator Jean Hubert and piloted by Florentin Bonnet.
Pope Pius XI opened the holy door at St. Peter’s Basilica to begin the Jubilee Year of 1925.
December 11, 2024– Dick Van Dyke turns 99.
December 13, 1924
Rabbi Michael A. Robinson, (December 13, 1924 – July 20, 2006) is born. He was an American Reform rabbi, civil rights activist, and human rights activist. He was known for his association with Martin Luther King Jr., with whom he marched in Selma and on whose request he participated in a 1964 demonstration in St. Augustine, Florida, at which he was arrested and jailed together with 15 other Reform rabbis.
Released Dec 13, 2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
British rock band Coldplay release a music video for their song “All My Love” featuring American entertainer Dick Van Dyke, on his 99th birthday. – On This Day
Fifty-five years ago on December 13, 1969; and just a few days before his thirty-third birthday, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ordained to the sacred priesthood. Catholic News World
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December 13, 2024
The Catholic Bard published its 700th Post.
December 17, 2024 – Pope Francis says two assassination attempts on him were foiled by British intelligence and Iraqi police, during his visit to Mosul, Iraq, in 2021. – On This Day
December 18, 1924 – Pope Pius XI made his first statement against communism after an abandoned pontifical relief mission returned from Russia. He said the Vatican would continue to make efforts to help needy Russians, but “nobody certainly can have thought by our efforts on behalf of the Russian people we intended in any way to lend our support to a system of government which we are so far from approving.
December 19, 1924 – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of at least 24 young males in Hanover.
December 19, 2024 – Paul McCartney wraps up his ‘Got Back’ tour at London’s O2 Arena, with guest appearances from Ron Wood during “Get Back”, and Ringo Starr drumming on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Helter Skelter”. –Historical Events in December 2024 – On This Day
December 20, 1924 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison after serving nine months for his crucial role in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
The longest running children’s broadcast program, Lørdagsbarnetimen, made its debut, playing on Norway‘s Kringkastningsselskapet A/S radio network. It would continue every Saturday afternoon for more than 85 years, with a final show on September 11, 2010.
December 20, 2024 – Six people are killed, while another 235 are injured, after a car is driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
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Dec 20, 2024
Mufasa: The Lion King In Theaters
Homestead In Theaters
December 24, 2024
Opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica
Kicking off the Jubilee Year
The Parker Solar Probe breaks the previous record set in 2018 for the closest artificial object to the Sun by 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles), becoming the closest and first man-made object to approach and “touch” the Sun.
December 25, 1924
Christmas
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church within the Soviet Union, designated three different persons as potential successors, identifying Metropolitan Kirill Smirnov of Kazan, Metropolitan Agathangel Preobrazhensky of Yaroslavl and Metropolitan Peter Polyansky of Krutitsy. With Smirnov and Preobrazhensky imprisoned at the time of Tikhon’s death on April 7, Polyansky would be selected by the clerics of the church as Peter of Krutitsy, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
December 25, 2024
Christmas 2024
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, an Embraer ERJ-190AR, crashes in Kazakhstan. Twenty-nine out of the 67 on board survive the crash.
Senior officials in the U.S. and Azerbaijan made separate statements suggesting the plane may have been brought down by weapons fire, echoing those made by aviation experts who blamed the crash on Russian air defense systems responding to a Ukrainian attack. AP News
December 26, 1924
Judy Garland who would go on to play Dorthey in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz made her show business debut at the age of 2+1⁄2, singing “Jingle Bells” at her parents’ theater in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
December 26, 2024
Opening of Holy Door at Rebibbia Prison
December 29, 1924
The adventure film Peter Pan, directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Betty Bronson in the title role, was released by Paramount Pictures (at the time, Famous Players–Lasky). The film was an adaptation of the J. M. Barrie (May 9, 1860 – June 19, 1937) play Peter Pan, or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, which had premiered almost exactly 20 years earlier (on December 27, 1904) and which Barrie novelized in 1911 in the book Peter and Wendy. After originally being considered lost, the film footage would be rediscovered at the Eastman School of Music in the 1950s and restored. In 2000, the Library of Congress would select the film for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Author Barrie died 13 years later on June 19, 1937
December 29, 2024
Opening of Holy Door at St John Lateran’s
Ex- President Jimmy Carter dies at 100 Years Old.
December 31, 2024
New Years Eve
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