1923 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1923?
- January 9, 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- January 10, 1923 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
- February 16, 1923 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- March 20, 1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso’s first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
- March 22, 1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- March 24, 1923 – Greece becomes a republic.
- April 5, 1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
- June 27, 1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
- July 1, 1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- July 13, 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads “Hollywoodland ” but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
- September 4, 1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
- September 8, 1923 – Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- September 9, 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- September 13, 1923 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- September 26, 1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic’s payment of reparations.
- October 13, 1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
- October 29, 1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- November 8, 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- November 9, 1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
- December 31, 1923 – The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
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