What happened with running shoes in 1924?
On 1 July, Rudolpph Dassler joins with his brother Adi to form ‘Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik’ (Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory) that eventually becomes Adidas.
What else happened in 1924?
On January 25, the first Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.
Paavo Nurmi won the 1500m and 5000m races in the same day at the Paris Summer Olympics on July 10.
In April, the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles.
The Mercedes-Benz company is formed by the merging of companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.
At the end of the year the astronomer, Edwin Hubble, announces that Andromeda, which was previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.
Willem Einthoven received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for inventing the electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895.
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