Popular Culture 1924
- Ira Gershwin , George Gershwin and Irvine Berlin continue to dominate the music industry and Rhapsody in Blue is played for the very first time
Technology
- The IBM corporation was founded
Inventions Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Frozen Food USA by Clarence Birdseye
What Events Happened in 1924
- New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held
- The first regular airmail services start in the USA
- Ellis Island closes as an immigration entry point to the US
- Hoof and Mouth epidemic in California
- J. Edgar Hoover is appointed Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), later changed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) .
- Pharaoh Tutankhamen of Egypt sarcophagus found
- The First ever Winter Olympic games is started
- Northern Ireland Civil Rights demonstrators gunned down by British Army Paratroopers
- Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins his bid for leadership.
- The Summer Olympics are held in Paris, France
- Johnny Weissmuller wins three gold medals at the Paris Summer Olympics
- Olympic Winter Games are held in Chamonix, France