100 Years Ago

18 JUNE 1924 The first results in the South African elections show Nationalist and Labour gains. General Smuts has lost

17 JUNE 1924 The House of Commons rejected all the Lords’ amendments to the Prevention of Eviction Bill, including one

16 JUNE 1924 Exceptionally difficult conditions have compelled the Everest Expedition to fall back from the higher levels of rest

15 JUNE 1924 The media speculated that the Labour Government would be forced to go back to the country in

14 JUNE 1924 Gaston Doumergue, President of the Senate, was elected President of the French Republic. General Dawes was confirmed

13 JUNE 1924 President Coolidge was nominated by the Republican Convention as candidate for the Presidency at the election in

12 JUNE 1924 Lord Ashfield, on behalf of the London Underground railway companies, issued a warning to the strikers that

11 JUNE 1924 Following a hostile vote against the new French Government led by Frédéric François-Marsal, President Alexandre Millerand announced

10 JUNE 1924 The Republican National Convention for the nomination of Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates opened at Cleveland, Ohio. Fierce

9 JUNE 1924 A Paris telegram announced that Frédéric François-Marsal, a member of the Poincare administration, had undertaken to form