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What Happened In History Year 1923

Historical Events for the Year 1923

  • 9th January » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
  • 10th January » Lithuania seizes and annexes Klaipėda e.g Memel.
  • 11th January » Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
  • 10th February » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
  • 15th February » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
  • 16th February » Howard Carter (archaeologist) e.g Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
  • 3rd March » 'Time (magazine) named TIME' magazine is published for the first time.
  • 5th April » Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
  • 6th April » The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
  • 15th April » Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes mellitus named diabetes.
  • 18th April » Yankee Stadium (1923) called Yankee Stadium, "The House that Babe Ruth or Ruth Built", opens.
  • 26th April » George VI or The Duke of York weds Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother called Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
  • 13th May » Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Church named Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
  • 26th May » 24 Hours of Le Mans, was first held, and has since been run annually in June.
  • 18th June » Checker Taxi puts its first taxicab named taxi on the streets.
  • 25th June » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a Airco DH-4 or DH-4B biplane
  • 1st July » The Canadian Parliament suspends all History of Chinese immigration to Canada e.g Chinese immigration.
  • 13th July » The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles known as Los Angeles, California. It originally reads "Hollywood'land' " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
  • 24th July » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
  • 2nd August » As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the List of Presidents of the United States or 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
  • 23rd August » Captain (United States O-3) known as Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
  • 1st September » The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake or Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
  • 4th September » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah ZR-1 6.
  • 8th September » 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 September » Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
  • 29th September » The British Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument) known as British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
  • 6th October » The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.
  • 13th October » Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
  • 16th October » The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy O. Disney or Roy Disney.
  • 29th October » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 31st October » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100º Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia.
  • 8th November » Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazism known as Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
  • 9th November » In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
  • 15th November » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
  • 21st December » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816.
  • 27th December » Daisuke Namba, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
  • 31st December » The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.

Historical events for the year 1923 by month