What Happened In September 1923 In History

Historical Events for September, 1923

• 1st » The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake or Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
• 4th » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah ZR-1 6.
• 8th » Honda Point Disaster: Nine United States Navy known as US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
• 13th » Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
• 29th » The British Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument) known as British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

Famous Birthdays on September in 1923

• 1st » Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
• 1st » Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (d. 2006)
• 2nd » René Thom, French mathematician, biologist, and academic (d. 2002)
• 3rd » Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (d. 2010)
• 3rd » Kishan Maharaj, Indian tabla player (d.2008)
• 3rd » Mort Walker, American cartoonist
• 4th » Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• 5th » David Hamer, Australian captain and politician (d. 2002)
• 5th » Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
• 6th » Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
• 7th » Nancy Keesing, Australian author and poet (d. 1993)
• 7th » Peter Lawford, English-American actor and singer (d. 1984)
• 8th » Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (d. 2003)
• 9th » Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
• 9th » Bertil Norström, Swedish actor (d. 2012)
• 9th » Jimmy Perry, English actor, singer, and screenwriter
• 9th » Cliff Robertson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 10th » Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (d. 2013)
• 11th » Alan Badel, English actor (d. 1982)
• 11th » Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer
• 13th » Édouard Boubat, French photographer and journalist (d. 1999)
• 14th » Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter and costume designer (d. 2001)
• 15th » Anton Heiller, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)
• 16th » Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore
• 17th » Ralph Sharon, English-American pianist
• 17th » Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Drifting Cowboys) (d. 1953)
• 18th » Queen Anne of Romania
• 18th » Peter Smithson, English architect, co-designed Robin Hood Gardens (d. 2003)
• 18th » Bertha Wilson, Scottish-Canadian jurist, 60th List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada e.g Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2007)
• 20th » Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-American poet and author (d. 1997)
• 20th » Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (d. 2014)
• 20th » Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
• 22nd » Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (d. 2014)
• 23rd » Vello Helk, Estonian-Danish historian and author (d. 2014)
• 23rd » Margaret Pellegrini, American actress and dancer (d. 2013)
• 24th » Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
• 24th » Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1950)
• 25th » Robert Laxalt, American author and academic (d. 2001)
• 25th » Sam Rivers, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2011)
• 26th » Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 26th » Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, English cricketer, lawyer, and judge
• 26th » James Hennessy, English businessman and diplomat
• 28th » Tuli Kupferberg, American singer, poet, and author (The Fugs) (d. 2010)
• 28th » John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (d. 2007)
• 28th » William Windom (actor) or William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
• 29th » Stan Berenstain, American author and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 29th » Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 30th » Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (Flanders and Swann) (d. 1994)

Famous Deaths for September 1923

• 7th » Nikolai von Glehn, German landowner, founded Nõmme (b. 1841)
• 10th » Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
• 11th » Ole Østmo, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1866)
• 17th » Stefanos Dragoumis, Greek judge and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1842)

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