When Presidents realized that adding to the public domain was a good thing.
In 1954 the Harney National Forest was added to the Black Hills, so it is no longer a separate administrative unit.
Winston Churchill was named Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Nikola Pašić became Prime Minister of Yugoslavia for the second time.
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It does not seem possible to me to make an adequate expression concerning the Presidency of the United States. No other honor equals it; no other responsibility approaches it. When it is conferred by an overwhelming choice of the American people and vote of the Electoral College, these are made all the greater.I can only express my simple thanks to all those who have contributed to this result and plainly acknowledge that it has been brought to pass through the work of a Divine Providence, of which I am but one instrument. Such powers as I have I dedicate to the service of all my country and of all my countrymen.In the performance of the duties of my office I cannot ask for anything more than the sympathetic consideration which my fellow-Americans have always bestowed upon me. I have no appeal, except to the common sense of all the people. I have no pledge except to serve them. I have no object except to promote their welfare.
Life Magazine came out with a cover featuring a Girl Scout.
The Irish Boundary Commission held its first meeting to come to an agreement of the dividing line between the Irish Free State and the United Kingdom.
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The news of the election hit the papers.
The former Emperor of China, Puyi, was expelled from the Forbidden City by Gen. Feng Yuxiang who unilaterally revoked the Articles of Favourable Treatment of the Great Qing Emperor after His Abdication
Puyi lived a tragic life, having been born into the anachronism of the Chinese Empire at a time it was collapsing. He'd go on to be Emperor of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, a prisoner of the Soviet Union, a prisoner of the Red Chinese, and finally, a gardener. He died in 1967 at age 61.
President Coolidge made a Thanksgiving proclamation:
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Both Calvin Coolidge and John W. Davis made radio appeals to the nation.
More locally, a big contest was about to be resolved.
General Feng Yuxiang's troops entered Tianjin.
Locally, the Gladstone was opening.
Ironically, in the Yellowstone District, just a few blocks away, an elevator shaft for a six story apartment building just went up.
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Gen. Feng Yxiang broke with the Zhilli clique and allied with the Fengtian clique led by Zhang Zuolin, inviting Zhang to form a new, pro-Japanese, government just a week after he overthrew the government in a coup.
He's oppose the Japanese in World War Two, but was sympathetic to the Communists, in spite of being a Christian, after the war.
Irish Free State parliamentarians Francis Cahill, Thomas Carter, Henry Finlay, Seán Gibbons, Alexander McCabe, Daniel McCarthy, Seán McGarry and Seán Milroy resigned in protest of the government's response in the Irish Army Mutiny.
Henry Ford endorsed Calvin Coolidge for President.
The Coolidge's voted by mail.
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Ralph C. Smedley founded The Toastmasters International club in Santa Ana, California.
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It was the first such media event in U.S. Presidential politics and was calculated to counteract Coolidge's dour personality.
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Proclamation, October 15, 1924
Purpose: To declare historic landmarks on military reservations as national monuments
CASTLE PINCKNEY, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
The entire area comprising 18.09 acres situated in the city of Saint Augustine, Florida.
Calvin Coolidge.
The Prince of Wales traveled from Detroit to Toronto and participated in a fox hunt.
Toronto was a very English town at the time.
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The US established diplomatic relations with the Irish Free State.
The British Labour Party overwhelmingly and definitely ruled out affiliation with the Communist Party.
The Soviet Union declared an amnesty for participants in the Georgian August Uprising on the condition that participants surrender their arms.
"Babe Ruth, Bill Edwards, and mascot" October 7, 1924.
The Washington Nationals beat the New York Giants 7 to 4 in Game 4 of the 1924 World Series. The series was now tied two to two.
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