1923

Years:
1920 1921 1922 – 1923 – 1924 1925 1926

Decades:
1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s

Centuries:
19th century – 20th century – 21st century

1923 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science
Other topics
Canada – Ireland – South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

Events

January-June

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
February 16 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun
February 22 – 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.
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 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.
April – End of Irish Civil War
April 23 – Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport
April 26 – Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey
May 23 – Launch of Belgium's SABENA Airlines
May 27 – Ku Klux Klan defies law requiring publication of its members
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

July-September

July 6 – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established
July 20 – Pancho Villa assassinated
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
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
September 1 – Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing 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 13 – Military coup in Spain – Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
September 18-26 – Newspaper printers strike in New York
September 26 – In Bayern, Gustav von Kuhr declares independence from Berlin

October-December

October 29 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
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 inflation in Germany reaches its height. One dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000 Reichsmarks (4.2 trillion). Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency
November 23 – Gustav Stresemann's coalition government collapses
December 27 – Assassination attempt against the crown prince of Japan in Tokyo

Unknown dates

Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor.
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
Regia Aeronautica, air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.
American Law Institute established

Year in topic

Births

January-February

January 1 – Roméo Sabourin, Canadian World War II spy (d. 1944)
January 7 – Pinkas Braun, actor and film director
January 5 – Sam Phillips, American country music producer (d. 2003)
January 6 – Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
January 10 – Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)
January 11 – Jacqueline Maillan, French actress
January 16 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
January 19 – Jean Stapleton, American actress
January 25 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish Nobel Prize-winning scientist
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 11 – Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director
February 13 – Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official
February 13 – Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
February 27 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player (d. 1990)

March-April

March 1 – Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer, poet, and science fiction editor (d. 1999)
March 6 – Ed McMahon, American television personality
March 6 – Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist (d. 1994)
March 8 – Walter Jens, writer
March 9 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
March 12 – Wally Schirra, astronaut
March 13 – Jose Mojica Marins, film director
March 21 – Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga
March 22 – Marcel Marceau, French mime
March 24 – Kermit Schafer, humorist (d. 1979)
March 26 – Bob Elliott, American comedian
March 27 – Louis Simpson, poet
March 30 – Milton Acorn, Canadian writer (d. 1986)
April 2 – G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician
April 20 – Mother Angelica, founder of Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)
April 22 – Bettie Page, American model
April 22 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer and writer
April 23 – Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas

May-August

May 1 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (d. 1999)
May 2 – Patrick Hillery, sixth President of Ireland
May 3 – Ralph Hall, American politician
May 7 – Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
May 13 – Bea Arthur, American actress
May 15 – John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
May 21 – Ara Parseghian, American football coach
May 21 – Dorothy Hewett, writer (d. 2002)
May 27 – Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
May 28 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer
May 31 – Prince Rainer III of Monaco (d. 2005)
July 2 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
July 4 – Rudolf Friedrich, member of the Swiss Federal Council
July 8 – Harrison Dillard, American athlete
July 18 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
July 20 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
July 22 – Robert Joseph Dole, American politician and Presidential candidate
July 22 – Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
July 23 – Witto Aloma, Major League Baseball player (d. 1997)
August 20 – Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
August 24 – Arthur Jensen, American educational psychologist
August 26 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist

September-December

September 1 – Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector
September 3 – Mort Walker, American cartoonist
September 6 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
September 9 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
September 11 – Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Indian guru (d. 2003)
September 17 – Hank Williams, American country musician (d. 1953)
September 22 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet
October 5 – Glynis Johns, British actress
October 15 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (d. 1985)
October 23 – Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
November 1 – Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (d. 2005)
November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
November 22 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
November 25 – Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland
December 2 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
December 12 – Bob Barker, American game show host
December 13 – Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003)
December 13 – Antoni Tàpies, Catalan painter
December 14 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
December 23 – Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
December 23 – James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral
December 25 – Sonia Olschanezky, World War II heroine (d. 1944)

Deaths

January 23 – Max Nordau, Hungarian author, philosopher and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
February 10 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
February 23 – Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
March 27 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
June 9 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846)
December 12 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss painter (b. 1859)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Robert Andrews Millikan
Chemistry – Fritz Pregl
Medicine – Frederick Grant Banting, John James Richard Macleod for the discovery of insulin
Literature – William Butler Yeats
Peace – Not awarded

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