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Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
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On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by the ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of six sports. The “International Winter Sports Week,” as it was known, was a great success, and in 1928 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially designated the Winter Games, staged in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as the second Winter Olympics.
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Forty thousand Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, introducing the world to a new animated character—Mickey Mouse.
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This was a devastating and memorable event because all stocks lost 13% of all their value. This Date is basically known as the beginning of the Great Depression because people lost tons of money and were in debt because they spent all of their money on stocks. It became so bad that not even the banks had any money to lend out for people.
