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100 YEARS AGO: HISTORICAL

EVENTS FROM OCTOBER 1924

T he month of
October has been
home to many
historical events
over the years.
Here’s a look at
some that helped to shape the world
in October 1924.

Commissioner of baseball Kenesaw which is renamed Soldier Field on matchup leads nationally syndicated
Mountain Landis bans two members Veterans Day in 1925, eventually sportswriter Grantland Rice to write
of the New York Giants, player Jimmy becomes the home of the Chicago his now famous column in which he
O’Connell and coach Cozy Dolan, on Bears.
October 1. O’Connell and Dolan were dubbed the Notre Dame backfield
charged with offering a Philadelphia American baseball player Jake the “Four Horsemen.”
Phillies player a $500 bribe to throw a
game on September 27. Daubert dies on October 9 at the age Ninety people lose their lives in
of 40. Daubert died of complications a hurricane that strikes Cuba on
from an appendectomy after avoiding
Radio Marconi begins broadcasting October 19. The hurricane is the
from Rome on October 6. The station surgery to play in the Cincinnati Reds’ earliest officially classified Category 5
is the first radio station in Italy for the final home game. Atlantic hurricane.
general public.
The holy city of Mecca is captured Voters in Ontario narrowly reject a
The Council of People’s Commissars by the Wahhabi Muslims on October proposal to end the prohibition of
in the Soviet Union declares an 13. The capture of Mecca is part of sales of liquor on October 23.
amnesty for all participants in the the conquest of Hejaz by the Saudi
August Uprising on October 7. kingdom of Nejd. The British Foreign office releases
The uprising was an unsuccessful the Zinoviev letter on October 24.
insurrection against Soviet rule in the Lido Anthony Iacocca is born in The letter is alleged to be a directive
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Allentown, Pennsylvania, on October from Moscow addressed to the
15. Iacocca would become one
President Calvin Coolidge hosts a of the most influential American Communist Party of Great Britain
that urges the latter to increase
breakfast at the White House for automotive executives of the labor unrest throughout the United
various well-known Broadway actors twentieth century.
on October 17. The event, staged Kingdom. Historians now agree the
just weeks before Election Day, is Inmate Adolf Hitler issues a letter was a forgery.
considered a groundbreaking event statement on October 16 admitting
in American political history, marking he was born in the Austro-Hungarian On October 25, “The Adventure of
the first time a campaign utilized a Empire and not in Germany. Hitler the Three Garridebs,” a short story
staged event with popular celebrities would not become a German citizen written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
in an effort to improve a politician’s until 1932. and featuring Sherlock Holmes, is
public image. published for the first time in Collier’s
Notre Dame defeats Army 13-7 at Weekly in the United States.
Grant Park Stadium in Chicago is the Polo Grounds in New York City on
dedicated on October 9. The stadium, October 18. The much-anticipated