1923

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1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar).

[edit] Events

[edit] January

January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies.
January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
January 17 - Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor.
January 18 - Elon College's campus is destroyed by a fire.

[edit] February

February 28 - Barcelona (Catalonia): Albert Einstein visits the city, invited by the scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa, as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya and conducted by Rafael de Campalans.

[edit] March

March - Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias.
March 1 - USS Connecticut decommissioned.
March 1 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.
March 2 - Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time.
March 9 - Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke, his third, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
March 28 - Regia Aeronautica, air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.

[edit] April

April - End of Irish Civil War.
April 6 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
April 12 - Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.
April 23 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia seaport.
April 26 - Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.

[edit] May

May 23 - Launch of Belgium's SABENA Airlines.
May 27 - Ku Klux Klan defies law requiring publication of its members.

[edit] June

June 9 - Military coup in Bulgaria - prime minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski is ousted (he is killed June 14).
June 18 - Etna volcano erupts - 60,000 made homeless.
June 25 - Rapid Bucureşti is formed on the initiative of the Griviţa railroad workers. The name given at the time was CFR Bucureşti.

[edit] July

July 10 - Large hailstones kill 23 in Rostow, Soviet Union.
July 19-20 night - Assassination of Pancho Villa.
July 24 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War.

[edit] August

August 2 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, (1921 - 1923) dies in office and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929).
August 13 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.
August 13 - Gustav Stresemann is named chancellor and founds a coalition government in Weimar Republic Germany.

[edit] September

September 1 - Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people.
September 4 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
September 6 - Italian navy occupies Corfu in retaliation of murder of an Italian officer. League of Nations protests and they leave September 29.
September 8 - Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground off the California coast.
September 9 - Atatürk founded the CHP.
September 10 - Ireland joins League of Nations.
September 13 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
September 17 - A major fire in Berkeley, California erupts, consumed some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely-built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.
September 18 - 26 - Newspaper printers strike in New York.
September 26 - In Bayern, Gustav Ritter von Kahr declares independence from Berlin.

[edit] October

October 13 - Ankara replaces Constantinople as the capital of Turkey.
October 26 - in Persia, Reza Khan became Ahmad Shah Qajar's prime minister.
October 29 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

[edit] November

November 8 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government; police and troops crush the attempt the next day.
November 12- Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, London.
November 15 - The hyperinflation in Germany reaches its height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000,000 Papiermark (4.2 quadrillion). Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency.
November 23 - Gustav Stresemann's coalition government collapses.

[edit] December

December 12 - In Italy, the Po river dam bursts - 600 dead.
December 27 - Assassination attempt against the crown prince of Japan in Tokyo.

[edit] Undated

Unemployment insurance scheme introduced in Queensland
Finnish flag carrier Finnair airline is started in Aero Oy.
Interpol is set up.
International Police Conference in Vienna.
Hoda Cha'arawi Association (formerly The Egyptian Feminist Union) is established in Egypt.
Trade unions banned in Spain for 10 years.
Police strike in Australia.
American Law Institute established.
Moderation League of New York became part of movement for repeal of prohibition in United States.

[edit] Ongoing events

Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923)

[edit] Births

**1923 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1923 MCMXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2676
Armenian calendar	1372 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԲ
Bahá'í calendar	79 – 80
Buddhist calendar	2467
Chinese calendar	4559/4619-11-15 (壬戌年十一月十五日) — to — 4560/4620-11-24 (癸亥年十一月廿四日)
Ethiopian calendar	1915 – 1916
Hebrew calendar	5683 – 5684
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1978 – 1979
- Shaka Samvat	1845 – 1846
- Kali Yuga	5024 – 5025
Holocene calendar	11923
Iranian calendar	1301 – 1302
Islamic calendar	1341 – 1342
Japanese calendar	Taishō 12 (大正12年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2583 (皇紀2583年)
- Jōmon Era	11923
Julian calendar	1968
Korean calendar	4256
Thai solar calendar	2466
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[edit] January-February

January 1 - Vulo Radev, Bulgarian film director (d. 2001)
January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, Canadian World War II spy (d. 1944)
January 5 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (d. 2003)
January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
January 7 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
January 8 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
January 16 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
January 19 - Jean Stapleton, American actress
January 23 - Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar fibers
January 25 - Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 26 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress
January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
January 31 - Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist

February 2 - James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997)
February 2 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
February 9 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)
February 10 - Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer
February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director
February 13 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
February 13 - Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official
February 20 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (d. 1985)
February 24 - David Soyer, American cellist
February 27 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player (d. 1990)

[edit] March-April

March 4 - Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer and broadcaster
March 6 - Ed McMahon, American television personality
March 9 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
March 10 - Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 12 - Wally Schirra, astronaut
March 21 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga
March 22 - Marcel Marceau, French Mime
March 25 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
March 26 - Bob Elliott, American comedian
March 27 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian writer (d. 1986)

April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician
April 6 - Ramon Valdes, Mexican comedian (d. 1988)
April 8 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
April 8 - Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997)
April 13 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
April 20 - Mother Angelica, American founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)
April 22 - Bettie Page, American model
April 22 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer and writer (d. 2006)
April 23 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
April 25 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
April 30 - Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)