1924

Events from the year 1924 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Calvin Coolidge (R-MA)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (OH)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-MA)
* Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA) (until November 9), vacant (starting November 9)
* Congress: 68th
==Events==
===January - March===
* February 7 – Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
* February 12 – Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.
* February 14 – IBM is founded in New York State.
* February 16 – Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.
* February 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
* March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.
===April - June===
* April 16 – American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles, California.
* May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
* May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
* May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks, in a thrill killing.
* May 26 – The Asian Exclusion Act is enacted, banning all Asian immigration to the United States. It was a slap in the face to Japan after their participation as a principal ally in WWI, and is seen as the spark that spurred Japan's alliance with Germany and down the path to World War II.
* June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
* June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.
* June 23 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.
* June 24 – The 1924 Democratic National Convention begins takes a record 103 ballots, to nominate John Davis for President.
===July - September===
* July 9 – The 1924 Democratic National Convention ends.
* September 9 – The Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
===October - December===
* October 9 – Soldier Field, the home of the Chicago Bears opens.
* October 10
** The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
** The Washington Senators defeat the New York Giants, 4 games to 3.
* November 4
** U.S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette
** Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
* November 15 – In Los Angeles, silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst.
* November 27 – In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
* December 1 – George Gershwin's Lady Be, Good, including the song "Fascinating Rhythm", (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) premieres in New York City.
==Memoriam==
* January 4 – John Peters, baseball shortstop (aged 73; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* January 12 – William V. Allen, U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1893 to 1899 (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* January 13 – Albert Abrams, quack doctor (aged 50; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt, pediatrician (aged 68; Peking, China)
* February 1 – Maurice Prendergast, painter (aged 65; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and historian (aged 67; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 16
** Henry Bacon, Beaux-Arts architect of the Lincoln Memorial (aged 57; New York City, NY, USA)
** John William Kendrick, railroad executive (aged 70; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 9 – Daniel Ridgway Knight, painter (aged 84; Paris, France)
* March 13 – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, African American civil rights campaigner and publisher (aged 81; Boston, MA, USA)
* April 1 – Frank Capone, gangster, shot by police (aged 28; Chicago, IL, USA)
* April 7 – Marcus A. Smith, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 (aged 73; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 19 – Paul Boyton, extreme water sports pioneer (aged 76; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 14 – Louis Sullivan, architect, "father of skyscrapers" (aged 67; Chicago, IL, USA)
* April 18 – Frank Xavier Leyendecker, illustrator (aged 48; New Rochelle, NY, USA)
* April 20 – Caroline Ingalls, pioneer, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (aged 84; De Smet, SD, USA)
* April 21 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (aged 65; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, neo-gothic architect (aged 54; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 24 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (aged 78; Worcester, MA, USA)
* April 27 – Maecenas Eason Benton, U.S. Representative from Missouri (aged 76; Springfield, MO, USA)
* May 5 – Kate Claxton, stage actress (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 10 – George Kennan, explorer (aged 79; Medina, NY, USA)
* May 11 – Moses Fleetwood Walker, baseball pitcher and Black nationalist (aged 67; Cleveland, OH, USA)
* May 31 – Charles Stockton, admiral (aged 78; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 6 – Black Benny, bass drummer (aged 34; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* July 14 – Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector and philanthropist (aged 84; Boston, MA, USA)
* July 23 – Frank Frost Abbott, classical scholar (aged 64; Montreux, Switzerland)
* August 7 – John Edward Bruce ("Bruce Grit"), African American slave and historian (aged 68; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville, editor and writer (aged 66; Gainesville, FL, USA)
* September 1 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (aged 84; Helena, MT, USA)
* September 15 – Frank Chance, baseball player (aged 47; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 17 – John Martin Schaeberle, German-born astronomer (aged 71; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
* September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, stage actress (aged 76; Boston, MA, USA)
* October 25 – Laura Jean Libbey, novelist (aged 62; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 27 – Percy Haughton, baseball player and coach (aged 48; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's novelist (aged 74; Plandome Manor, NY, USA)
* November 3 – Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (aged 102; Hollywood, CA, USA)
* November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1893 to 1924 (aged 74; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* November 10 – Dean O'Banion, gangster, killed (aged 32; Chicago, IL, USA)
* November 19 – Thomas H. Ince, silent film producer, "father of the Western" (aged 44; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
* November 21 – Florence Harding, née Kling, First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as wife of Warren G. Harding, 29th President (aged 64; Marion, OH, USA)
* December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter, novelist and naturalist (aged 61; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 13 – Samuel Gompers, labor leader (aged 74; San Antonio, TX, USA)
* December 15
** T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1921 to 1923 (aged 60; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** William Herbert Carruth, linguist and poet (aged 65; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
* December 19 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (aged 65; Washington, DC, USA)
==External links==
* 1924 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 15