page_title: 1924
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1924 / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Poster of the Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympic Games, produced in about 5000 copies.
context_page_description: 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1920s decade.
context_section_description: January 10 – The British submarine L-24 sinks in the English Channel; 43 lives are lost.
  January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
  January 21
  The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.
  Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.
  January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  January 23 – Soviet Russia officially declares that Lenin died January 21.
  January 25 – The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.
  January 26 – Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad; it reverts to Saint Petersburg in 1991.
  January 27 – Lenin is buried in Lenin's Mausoleum, in Moscow's Red Square.
caption: 1924 Winter Olympics
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