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March 3, 1924: Turkey abolishes the Caliphate, political-religious leader of Islam in the Middle East, after 407 years
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March 10 and 28, 1924: War Secretary Denby and Attorney General Daugherty forced to resign in U.S. Teapot Dome scandal
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March 7, 1924: Mexico's President Obregón defeats de la Huerta rebellion

The following events occurred in March 1924:

March 1, 1924 (Saturday)

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March 2, 1924 (Sunday)

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March 3, 1924 (Monday)

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March 4, 1924 (Tuesday)

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March 5, 1924 (Wednesday)

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Hussein, the would-be Caliph

March 6, 1924 (Thursday)

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  • In an elaborate nighttime ceremony at Luxor under floodlights, Egypt's Prime Minister Saad Zaghloul formally opened the site of Tutankamun's tomb to the Egyptian public, which reportedly attracted the largest crowd seen in Luxor. The reopening turned into an anti-British demonstration when the British High Commissioner, Field Marshal Allenby, arrived when the crowd was demanding immediate British withdrawal from Egypt.[23]
  • Turkey's first government was reorganized as Prime Minister Ismet Pasha formed a new council of ministers at the request of President Mustapha Kemal Ataturk.[24] Ismet replaced four members of his Cabinet and eliminated the Ministry of Sharia and Foundations, and the Ministry of the General Staff while splitting the Ministry of the Economy into the new Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Agriculture.
  • Born: Obi James Anyasi II, African tribal monarch who ruled the Esan people of Idumuje-Unor in southeast Nigeria from 1946 to 2013 (d. 2013)

March 7, 1924 (Friday)

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March 8, 1924 (Saturday)

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  • All 171 miners were killed in two explosions at the Castle Gate mine at Castle Gate, Utah, near the town of Helper.[29]
  • The Governor-General of British India, Lord Reading transferred full power of administration of the princely state of Bahawalpur (now part of the Punjab province of Pakistan) to the 19-year-old Nawab of Bahawalpur, Sadeq Mohammad Khan V who had been the nominal ruler since ascending the throne at the age of two on February 15, 1907.[30]
  • Inventor Nikola Tesla spoke out for the first time in years, announcing he had perfected a system of transmitting power without wires.[31]
  • Georgios Kafantaris was forced by the Greek Army to resign as Prime Minister of Greece, along with his cabinet, less than a month after succeeding Eleftherios Venizelos, after refusing to endorse the Army's call for the abolition of the monarchy in favor of a republic. Kafantaris had proposed a referendum on the future of the monarchy while the Army requested an immediate change.[32]
  • The Kingdom of Greece established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union,[citation needed] a policy that continued even after the kingdom was abolished less than one month later.
  • Born:
    • Walter Chiari (stage name for Walter Annicchiarico), Italian stage and film actor; in Verona (d. 1991)
    • Louie Nunn, American politician and the only Republican governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky during the second half of the 20th century; in Park, Kentucky (d. 2004)
    • Sean McClory, Irish-born U.S. television and film actor; in Dublin (d. 2003)
  • Died: Alfred Holland Smith, 60, President of the New York Central Railroad, was killed when he fell from a horse while riding through New York City's Central Park.[33]

March 9, 1924 (Sunday)

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  • The French Cabinet held an emergency meeting to consider extraordinary measures to stabilize the collapsing franc,[34] which dropped to 117.60 francs against the British pound sterling.[35]
  • Died: General Panagiotis Danglis, 70, former Greek Army leader and Minister of Military Affairs during World War One, co-inventor of the Schneider-Danglis mountain gun

March 10, 1924 (Monday)

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March 11, 1924 (Tuesday)

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March 12, 1924 (Wednesday)

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March 13, 1924 (Thursday)

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March 14, 1924 (Friday)

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March 15, 1924 (Saturday)

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March 16, 1924 (Sunday)

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March 17, 1924 (Monday)

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Chicago on its round-the-world journey

March 18, 1924 (Tuesday)

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March 19, 1924 (Wednesday)

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March 20, 1924 (Thursday)

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  • What is now the national airline of Finland, Finnair, began operations as Aero O/Y, with a flight from Helsinki to Tallinn in Estonia in a Junkers F.13 seaplane.[66]
  • The "Eugenical Sterilization Act" went into effect in the U.S. state of Virginia upon being signed into law by Governor E. Lee Trinkle, providing for the sterilization of persons in mental institutions.[67]
  • Nadir of American race relations: In the U.S., the Virginia General Assembly passed the Racial Integrity Act, amending the state's racial classification law which had provided that a person was considered to be "colored" if they had a great-grandparent who was African-American. The amendment enacted the "one-drop rule", which provided that a person was considered non-white if it was shown that they had any ancestor who was African-American. The 1924 Act had what was called the "Pocahontas Clause" providing that a person with an American Indian ancestor would be considered white if they were 15/16ths European.[68]
  • Born: James Barr, Scottish Biblical scholar; in Glasgow (d. 2006)[69]
  • Died:

March 21, 1924 (Friday)

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March 22, 1924 (Saturday)

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March 23, 1924 (Sunday)

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March 24, 1924 (Monday)

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March 25, 1924 (Tuesday)

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Kingdom of Greece
Hellenic Republic

March 26, 1924 (Wednesday)

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March 27, 1924 (Thursday)

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March 28, 1924 (Friday)

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March 29, 1924 (Saturday)

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March 30, 1924 (Sunday)

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March 31, 1924 (Monday)

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