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| 1924 |
| | | George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its first performance, at the Aeolian Hall in New York | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Clarence Birdseye, having eaten frozen fish in the Arctic, launches Birdseye Seafoods in New York | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller wins three Olympic gold medals in the Paris games, together with a bronze in water polo | |
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| 1924 |
| | | US astronomer Edwin Hubble proves that the nebula Andromeda is vastly further away than other stars and can only be a separate galaxy | |
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| 1924 |
| | | The Marx Brothers (at this stage Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Gummo) make their Broadway debut with the show I'll Say She Is | |
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| 1924 |
| | | US poet Robinson Jeffers publishes his first successful collection, Tamar and Other Poems | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Erich von Stroheim completes Greed, his epic silent film of ferociously competitive acquisition in turn-of-the-century San Francisco | |
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| 1924 |
| | | 7-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives his first professional recital, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in San Francisco | |
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| 1924 |
| | | US poet E.A. Robinson publishes a narrative poem, The Man Who Died Twice, about the dissipation of artistic talent | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Calvin Coolidge is elected US president in his own right, winning by a wide margin over Democrat John W. Davis | |
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