9 April 1924Dawes PlanCharles Gates Dawes
The Dawes Committee proposes a reparations plan to stabilize German payments after World War I.
Historical records for United States of America in 1924, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The Dawes Committee proposes a reparations plan to stabilize German payments after World War I.
The Dawes Plan provides for annual German reparations; Dawes later shares the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.
Submits the committee report on German reparations and financial stabilization.
The Dawes Plan supports foreign lending to stabilize the German economy.
The Dawes Plan recommends changes to stabilize German finance and support reparations.
The Dawes Plan reduces annual German payments at first and lets them rise over time.
The Immigration Act establishes national-origin quotas that restrict labour migration.
The Revenue Act reduces top income-tax rates while retaining a progressive structure.
Birth of Charles Kingsley
Nominated as Calvin Coolidge's Republican running mate.
Birth of Sydney Lumet
Birth of Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia
Elected Vice President on the Republican ticket with Calvin Coolidge.
Frank Angelo Fiorini, later known as Frank Sturgis, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on December 9, 1924.
Appointed Agent General for reparations during inauguration of the Dawes plan
The expert committee investigates how to collect German reparations debt after World War I.
Identifies multiple Cepheid variables in M31 and uses their periods to demonstrate that Andromeda is far outside the Milky Way.
Dawes works with American and European experts on a plan for German reparations.
The Dawes committee, Maurice Houtart & Emile Francqui (Belgium), Jean Parmentier & Edgard Allix (France), Josiah Stamp & Robert Kindersley (UK), Alberto Pirelli & Frederico Flora (Italy), Owen Young & Charles Dawes (USA)
Hubble establishes the distance to Cepheid variables in the Andromeda Galaxy, showing that Andromeda lies beyond the Milky Way and helping settle the Island Universe debate.
Graduates from Harvard University
Graduates from the Command and General Staff School
Wins the Presidential election
Appointed Director of the FBI
Hubble announces evidence that spiral nebulae are external galaxies, expanding the scale of cosmology
Completes the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River
Settles the Island Universe debate which was concerned with whether the Milky Way and the Universe were synonymous, or was the Milky Way merely one in a plethora of galaxies that constitutes the Universe
Appointed President of the USA, 30th President, 2nd term
George Gershwin composes Rhapsody in Blue, symphonic jazz composition
Publication of "The Study of Human Society"
Publication of "What Price Glory?", portrays an American soldier during Word War I
Publication of "What Price Glory?", portrays an American soldier during Word War I
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