1923 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1923 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- 1 January - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies.
- 8 January - First outside broadcast by the BBC.
- 18 January - The Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.
- 13 February - First BBC broadcast from Cardiff (station 5WA).
- 16 February - Archaeologist Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. [1]
- 6 March - First BBC broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).
- 26 April - Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.
- 28 September - First publication of the Radio Times listings magazine (price 2d).
- 10 October - First BBC broadcast from Aberdeen (station 2BD).
- 17 October - First BBC broadcast from Bournemouth (station 6BM).
- 12 November - Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, London.
- 16 November - First BBC broadcast from Sheffield (station 2FL).
- John James Richard Macleod wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Frederick Banting "for the discovery of insulin". [2]
[edit] Births
- 8 January - Johnny Wardle, cricketer (d. 1985)
- 4 March - Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster
- 2 April - G. Spencer-Brown, mathematician
- 5 May - Richard Wollheim, philosopher (d. 2003)
- 15 May - John Lanchbery, composer (d. 2003)
- 21 August - Larry Grayson, comedian and game show host (d. 1995)
- 29 August - Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, Chairman of the BBC (d. 2006)
- 7 September - Madeleine Dring, composer and actress
- 22 September - Dannie Abse, poet
- 5 October - Glynis Johns, actress
- 23 October - Sir Robin Day, political broadcaster (d. 2000)
- 24 October - Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (d. 1997)
- 3 November - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, clergyman (d. 1990)
- 15 December - Freeman Dyson, physicist
- 19 December - Gordon Jackson, actor (d. 1990)
- Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, geologist and glaciologist
[edit] Deaths
- 9 January - Katherine Mansfield, British novelist (b. 1888)
- 27 March - Sir James Dewar, chemist (b. 1842)
- 4 April - John Venn, mathematician (b. 1834)
- 5 April - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (b. 1866)
- 9 June - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
- 30 October - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- 10 December - Thomas George Bonney, geologist (b. 1833)
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923
