01 Jan 1924
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Centurion was decommissioned from service.
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05 Jan 1924
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Zhaohe arrived at Qingdao, Shandong, Province, China.
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08 Jan 1924
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Yi Gang, Prince Imperial Eui, was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum of Japan.
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08 Jan 1924
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Su Yu ran away from home.
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10 Jan 1924
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Georg von Bismarck joined the German 5th Prussian Infantry Regiment as the commanding officer of a motorized company.
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21 Jan 1924
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Vladimir Lenin passed away in Gorki near Moscow, Russia. Joseph Stalin would soon begin to purge his political rivals.
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01 Feb 1924
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The United Kingdom officially recognized the Soviet Union.
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04 Feb 1924
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Iwane Matsui was named the commanding officer of the 35th Infantry Brigade.
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04 Feb 1924
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Kenkichi Ueda was made the commanding officer of 3rd Cavalry Brigade.
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04 Feb 1924
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Major General Kinzo Watanabe was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army.
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05 Feb 1924
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Nobutake Kondo was named an aide to Crown Prince Hirohito at Tokyo, Japan.
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05 Feb 1924
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Prince Hiroyasu was named the commanding officer of the Yokosuka Military District.
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05 Feb 1924
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Vice Admiral Kikuo Matsumura was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea.
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19 Feb 1924
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HMS Hermes was commissioned into service. Captain Arthur Stopford, who had been the commanding officer of the carrier since Feb 1923, remained in command.
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20 Feb 1924
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HMS Eagle was commissioned into service.
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26 Feb 1924
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Adolf Hitler was put on trial for treason for the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
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06 Mar 1924
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Lewis Puller was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant.
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21 Mar 1924
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La Motte-Picquet was launched at Lorient, France.
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22 Mar 1924
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General Robert Nivelle, the French Commander-in-Chief (1916-1917) died in France.
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24 Mar 1924
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Prince Hiroyasu's third child, Prince Hirotada, passed away.
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25 Mar 1924
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Greece proclaimed itself a republic.
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01 Apr 1924
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Adolf Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch; he would be released after only 9 months.
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01 Apr 1924
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Canada established its own air force. The Royal Canadian Air Force began its existence with just 68 officers and 307 airmen. Its role was specified as mapping, flying treaty money to native Canadians, hunting smugglers and illegal immigrants, and carrying mail and injured persons.
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01 Apr 1924
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Settsu began its conversion into a target ship. One of her boiler rooms and her center funnel would be removed, and her armor was to be thickened to absorb more hits.
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03 Apr 1924
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S-18 was commissioned into service.
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03 Apr 1924
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Roza Shanina was born in the village of Yedma, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
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06 Apr 1924
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Italian Fascists won the elections in Italy with a 2/3 majority.
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13 Apr 1924
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Captain Isoroku Yamamoto visited the United States as a member of the Japanese delegation. Among other places, he visited the United States Naval War College.
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29 Apr 1924
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Sendai was commissioned into service.
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01 May 1924
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Georg von Bismarck was promoted to the rank of Hauptmann.
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01 May 1924
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Hiroaki Abe was transferred out of cruiser Tama.
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02 May 1924
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A Douglas DT-2 torpedo bomber was launched from the carrier USS Langley, while the ship was at anchor in Pensacola Bay, Florida, United States.
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15 May 1924
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Martin Bormann received a 10-year sentence for the murder of Walther Kadow.
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15 May 1924
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Rudolf Höss received a 10-year sentence for the murder of Walther Kadow.
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26 May 1924
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Deng Xihou was named the provincial governor of Sichuan, China by the Beiyang warlord government.
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27 May 1924
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The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting at Springfield, Maryland, repealed its ban on dancing and theater attendance.
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06 Jun 1924
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Light carrier Hosho entered Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan for post-commissioning modification work.
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07 Jun 1924
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HMS Eagle was assigned to the British Mediterranean Fleet.
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10 Jun 1924
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Fascists kidnapped and killed Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome, Italy; Matteotti had just accused the Fascists of fraud ten days earlier.
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11 Jun 1924
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Arthur Coningham was Mentioned in Despatches.
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12 Jun 1924
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George Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, United States.
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13 Jun 1924
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Mussolini used the Blackshirt combat legions to restore order in Italy after the murder of Socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti.
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16 Jun 1924
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The Whampoa Military Academy was founded in China.
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20 Jun 1924
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Audie Murphy was born.
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23 Jun 1924
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Joseph Rochefort requested transfer to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, United States, noting that its proximity to the University of California would allow him to take Japanese language courses; the request would be denied.
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26 Jun 1924
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Franklin Roosevelt gave a speech in support of Governor Alfred E. Smith during the Democratic Party National Convention in New York, New York, United States.
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27 Jun 1924
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Omar Bradley was promoted to the rank of major.
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30 Jun 1924
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Jan Smuts stepped down as the Prime Minister of South Africa.
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09 Jul 1924
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Whitehall was commissioned into service.
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26 Jul 1924
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HMS Hermes participated in a fleet review in Spithead in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
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01 Aug 1924
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The Italian Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale (National Security Volunteer Militia) was re-organized as a branch of the military.
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09 Aug 1924
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The US airship Shenandoah proved that dirigibles could operate at sea by mooring to a mast on the USS Patoka while the ship was under way off the east coast of the United States. It remained docked for nearly 24 hours. Later in the month, Shenandoah carried out the first fleet operation by an American rigid airship, locating an "enemy" force 200 miles out to sea.
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18 Aug 1924
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France began to withdraw its troops from Germany.
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20 Aug 1924
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Light carrier Hosho's modification work was completed at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan, which saw the removal of her island, mast, and crane.
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20 Aug 1924
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General Soroku Suzuki was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Shinnosuke Kikuchi.
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20 Aug 1924
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Lieutenant General Takaichi Kanno was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army.
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01 Sep 1924
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Takio Izawa was named the governor-general of Taiwan.
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07 Sep 1924
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Daniel Inouye was born in Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii.
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08 Sep 1924
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USS Marblehead was commissioned into service with Captain Chauncey Shackford in command.
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13 Sep 1924
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The Italian left wing deputy Armando Casalioni was killed in retaliation for the murder of Giacomo Matteotti.
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18 Sep 1924
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A complete Bible translation of the Old and New Testaments was published by American Bible scholar and historian James Moffatt, 54. Moffatt's intention was to make available to the lay reader, in simple language, a current scholarly understanding of the biblical text.
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28 Sep 1924
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Shortly after 0000 hour, while Joseph Rochefort was acting as the officer of the deck, tanker Cuyama and the several destroyers attached to her began drifting into the San Francisco Bay in California, United States, causing minor damage to various ships but causing no casualties. Rochefort would escape blame in the resulting inquiry, receiving only a minor reprimand on his file.
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29 Sep 1924
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Miles Browning was certified a US Navy pilot.
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03 Oct 1924
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Franklin Roosevelt visited Warm Springs, Georgia, United States for the first time; the warm waters there were said to have healing powers.
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14 Oct 1924
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The Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was formed within the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
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22 Oct 1924
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Peng Chin was born.
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27 Oct 1924
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The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was formed.
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30 Oct 1924
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The keel of Duquesne was laid down at the Arsenal de Brest, France.
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15 Nov 1924
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Light carrier Hosho was transferred out of the 1st Fleet.
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15 Nov 1924
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Lorraine began a period of refitting.
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22 Nov 1924
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HMS Hermes arrived at Malta.
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26 Nov 1924
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The keel of Nachi was laid down at the Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan.
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29 Nov 1924
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Karl Wiligut was arrested by the police in Austria and was taken to a mental hospital, where he would be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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01 Dec 1924
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Tamon Yamaguchi was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander.
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01 Dec 1924
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Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of commander.
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01 Dec 1924
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Captain Yoshio Takita was named the commanding officer of Tenryu.
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01 Dec 1924
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Captain Kumagoro Migita was named the commanding officer of Settsu.
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01 Dec 1924
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Rear Admiral Naojiro Honshuku was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea.
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01 Dec 1924
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Rear Admiral Shinichi Oguri was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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09 Dec 1924
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Joseph Rochefort was assigned to battleship USS Arizona based at San Pedro, California, United States as the ship's assistant engineering officer.
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14 Dec 1924
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A new method in the launch of ship-based aircraft was displayed with the explosive-powered catapult launch of a Martin MO-1 observation plane from the forward turret of the USS Mississippi. Previously, ships other than aircraft-carriers had top come to a halt in order to lower the aircraft into the water to allow them to take off.
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15 Dec 1924
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In a letter to Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill noted that there was no need to worry about Japan in their lifetime.
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20 Dec 1924
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Vice Admiral Eizaburo Fujiwara was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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24 Dec 1924
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Albania was declared a republic.
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