March 1924

March 1, 1924 (Saturday)

March 2, 1924 (Sunday)

March 3, 1924 (Monday)

March 4, 1924 (Tuesday)

March 5, 1924 (Wednesday)

  • Just two days after Turkey abolished the caliphate, Sharif Husyan proclaimed himself Caliph of all Muslims. The response throughout the Muslim world was mostly negative.[9]

March 6, 1924 (Thursday)

March 7, 1924 (Friday)

March 8, 1924 (Saturday)

March 9, 1924 (Sunday)

  • The French Cabinet held an emergency meeting to consider extraordinary measures to stabilize the collapsing franc,[13] which dropped to 117 against the British pound.[4]
  • Died: Panagiotis Danglis, 70 or 71, Greek military leader and politician

March 10, 1924 (Monday)

March 11, 1924 (Tuesday)

March 12, 1924 (Wednesday)

March 13, 1924 (Thursday)

March 14, 1924 (Friday)

March 15, 1924 Saturday)

March 16, 1924 (Sunday)

March 17, 1924 (Monday)

March 18, 1924 (Tuesday)

March 19, 1924 (Wednesday)

March 20, 1924 (Thursday)

March 21, 1924 (Friday)

  • A British soldier was killed and 21 wounded at Queenstown, Ireland when four men in a motor car dressed as Irish army officers drove past the destroyer HMS Scythe and opened fire with a machine gun.[26]
  • London drivers of trams and public buses went on strike.[27]
  • Born: Harry Lehmann, physicist, in Güstrow, Germany (d. 1998)

March 22, 1924 (Saturday)

March 23, 1924 (Sunday)

March 24, 1924 (Monday)

March 25, 1924 (Tuesday)

March 26, 1924 (Wednesday)

  • French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigned after his government was defeated in the Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 271 to 264. The confidence vote was a complete surprise and Poincaré was not even present, as he was in a committee meeting when it was announced and voted on.[31]
  • Over 100 died in landslides around Amalfi, Italy.[32][33]

March 27, 1924 (Thursday)

March 28, 1924 (Friday)

March 29, 1924 (Saturday)

  • A proposed settlement in the London tram and bus drivers' strike was submitted to union delegates. A vote was set for Monday.[35]
  • Jews in Bucharest were targeted by rioters in nighttime attacks that continued into the next morning. .[36]
  • Died: Charles Villiers Stanford, 71, Irish composer, conductor and teacher

March 30, 1924 (Sunday)

March 31, 1924 (Monday)

  • The London tram and bus drivers' strike ended.[39]
  • The air transport company Imperial Airways was founded.

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