The month of October has been home to many historical events over the years. Here’s a look at some that helped to shape the world in October 1924.

The Irish Army, the Irish Naval Service, the Irish Air Corps, and the Reserve Defence Forces unify on October 1 to form Ireland’s Defence Forces.

Commissioner of baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans two members of the New York Giants, player Jimmy O’Connell and coach Cozy Dolan, on October 1. O’Connell and Dolan were charged with offering a Philadelphia Phillies player a $500 bribe to throw a game on September 27.

Radio Marconi begins broadcasting from Rome on October 6. The station is the first radio station in Italy for the general public.

The Council of People’s Commissars in the Soviet Union declares an amnesty for all participants in the August Uprising on October 7. The uprising was an unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Grant Park Stadium in Chicago is dedicated on October 9. The stadium, which is renamed Soldier Field on Veterans Day in 1925, eventually becomes the home of the Chicago Bears.

American baseball player Jake Daubert dies on October 9 at the age of 40. Daubert died of complications from an appendectomy after avoiding surgery to play in the Cincinnati Reds’ final home game.

The holy city of Mecca is captured by the Wahhabi Muslims on October 13. The capture of Mecca is part of the conquest of Hejaz by the Saudi kingdom of Nejd.

Lido Anthony Iacocca is born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on October 15. Iacocca would become one of the most influential American automotive executives of the twentieth century.

Inmate Adolf Hitler issues a statement on October 16 admitting he was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and not in Germany. Hitler would not become a German citizen until 1932.

President Calvin Coolidge hosts a breakfast at the White House for various well-known Broadway actors on October 17. The event, staged just weeks before Election Day, is considered a groundbreaking event in American political history, marking the first time a campaign utilized a staged event with popular celebrities in an effort to improve a politician’s public image.

Notre Dame defeats Army 13-7 at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 18. The much-anticipated matchup leads nationally syndicated sportswriter Grantland Rice to write his now famous column in which he dubbed the Notre Dame backfield the “Four Horsemen.”

Ninety people lose their lives in a hurricane that strikes Cuba on October 19. The hurricane is the earliest officially classified Category 5 Atlantic hurricane.

The Hilldale Club of the Eastern Colored League defeat the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League 5-0 to win the Colored World Series on October 20.

British Fascist William Joyce is slashed with a razor while attending a meeting of Conservatives in London on October 22. Joyce later gained notoriety as Nazi propagandist “Lord Haw-Haw” and is ultimately hanged for treason in 1946.

Voters in Ontario narrowly reject a proposal to end the prohibition of sales of liquor on October 23.

The British Foreign office releases the Zinoviev letter on October 24. The letter is alleged to be a directive from Moscow addressed to the Communist Party of Great Britain that urges the latter to increase labor unrest throughout the United Kingdom. Historians now agree the letter was a forgery.

On October 25, “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs,” a short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featuring Sherlock Holmes, is published for the first time in Collier’s Weekly in the United States.

Writer Pedro Sainz is among various individuals imprisoned in relation to a meeting of notable Spaniards on October 28. The meeting featured individuals opposed to the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. Three days later, Rivera condemns many present at the meeting to solitary confinement for an indefinite period without trial.