Irish PresidentW. T. Cosgrave appealed to the United States for food aid. Ireland's potato crop had been severely curtailed by heavy rainfall the previous summer and autumn.[2]
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed into law an air mail bill popularly known as the Kelly Air Mail Act, which relieved the government of the responsibility for air mail.[3]
Thousands of miners around Dortmund stopped work as both a sympathy gesture for the victims of the Stein mine explosion and a protest against dangerous mining conditions.[13]
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge suggested that an international conference be held to set limits on the size of naval vessels.[7]
New Zealand's rugby union team defeated the visiting Canadian team from Victoria, British Columbia, 68 to 4, in Toulouse, France to complete a perfect 32–0 record in their 1924–25 tour of Britain, Ireland and France. New Zealand scored a total of 838 points with only 116 points scored against them.
In a cricket match played in Melbourne, the English team defeated Australia in the 4th Test for their first win against the Australians since 1912.[7]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksandar Tsankov declared a state of war throughout the country amid fighting between Bulgarian and Serbian irregulars attributed to communist agitators.[21]
This is the cover date of the very first issue of The New Yorker, though not necessarily the publication date, as magazines usually date their covers ahead of time.[22]
A dynamite depot in Brazil exploded, killing 621.[23]
The United States and Canada signed the Lake of the Woods Treaties, defining the lake's boundary line more accurately, regulating its water level, and arranging for the settlement of port damages caused by overflowing that arose from work done on the Canadian side.[24]
The legally reinstated Nazi Party held a convention in the same hall in Munich where Adolf Hitler had launched his failed putsch.[19] Hitler made his first speech since his release from prison to a packed audience of over 4,000 in the hall as another 1,000 stood outside.[27]
