1923 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1923?
- January 1, 1923 – Britain’s Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
- January 11, 1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
- February 16, 1923 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- March 22, 1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- April 18, 1923 – Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opens.
- May 13, 1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
- June 18, 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- July 1, 1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- July 24, 1923 – 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.
- August 2, 1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
- August 23, 1923 – Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
- 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.
- October 16, 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
- October 29, 1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- October 31, 1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia.
- November 8, 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- December 27, 1923 – Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
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