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.
- 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.
- March 24, 1923 – Greece becomes a republic.
- April 5, 1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
- 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 9, 1923 – Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup.
- 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.
- September 1, 1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
- September 9, 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- 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 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.
- November 15, 1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
- December 27, 1923 – Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
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