Chemical Engineering - 1924
- The First Winter Olympic games are held
in the French Alps, sixty miles from Grenoble. (1924)
- J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director
of the FBI. (1924)
- Lenin dies and Stalin wins power
struggle; rules as Soviet dictator until his death in 1953.
- Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall and
oilmen Harry Sinclar and Edward Doheny are charged with conspiracy and bribery
in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb are
convicted in the "thrill killing" of Bobby Franks in Chicago. They are
defended by Clarence Darrow and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- Robert Frost wins first of four
Pulitzers.
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