HISTORY: February 1924. The month probably doesn’t stand out in the minds of many.

However, as we were looking back through some old copies of The Era, the major historical events that happened in that month were amazing. We took to the internet to see what else happened in that one historic month.

On Feb. 1, British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald formally recognized the Soviet Union.

On Feb. 2, the first ever Winter Olympics begins.

President Woodrow Wilson, who had intended to seek a third term in office, had suffered a severe stroke in 1919. He remained in office until March 4, 1921.

He died Feb. 3, 1924.

On Feb. 4, 1924, Indian freedom fighter Mohandas Gandhi was released from incarceration in Ahmedabad after serving less than a third of his sentence for sedition.

On Feb. 5, Greenwich Observatory in England began broadcasting a time signal for the standard of the exact time.

Feb. 7, Benito Mussolini’s Italian government exchanges diplomats with the USSR.

Born on Feb. 10, John Peterson, American children’s author who created The Littles series of books; in Bradford; he died in 2002.

On Feb. 12, the lid of Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s stone sarcophagus was raised, revealing his solid gold mummy.

On Feb. 18, the popular comic strip Boots and Her Buddies debuted, and ran for 44 years. The same day, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal under President Warren G. Harding. One of the men under consideration to replace Denby was Bradford native Frederick Haynes Newell; he wasn’t selected, but had an amazing impact nonetheless. (More on him in the future.)

On Feb. 22, President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a radio broadcast from the White House when he gave a national address on George Washington’s birthday.