
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ==Events== ===January-June=== * January 1 - Grouping Act of all United Kingdom railway companies into four larger companies * January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel * January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium Occupation of the Ruhr 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 (BB-18) 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 Union government. * April - End of Irish Civil War * April 23 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport * April 26 - Wedding of George VI of the United Kingdom 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 World War I * 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 Poland seaport * August 13 - Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany and founds a coalition government in Weimar Republic Germany * September 1 - Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, Kanagawa killing 142.807 people * September 4 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the "USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 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 9 - Atatürk founded the CHP. * September 13 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. * September 18-September 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, Countess of Southesk 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. * Finland 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== * 1923 in aviation * 1923 in film * 1923 in literature * 1923 in music * 1923 in rail transport * 1923 in science * 1923 in sports * 1923 in Canada ==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 in Physiology or Medicine-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) **Liz Smith (journalist), 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 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003) **Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official * February 27 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player (d. 1990) ===March-April=== * March 1 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer, poet, and science fiction editor (d. 1999) * March 6 - Ed McMahon, American television personality **Jurgen 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 (comedian), 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 **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, Irish 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 - Dorothy Hewett, writer (d. 2002) **Ara Parseghian, American football coach * May 27 - Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize * May 28 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer * May 31 - Prince Rainier III, Prince of Monaco 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 - Stanislaw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005) * July 22 - Robert Joseph Dole, American politician and Presidential candidate **Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976) * July 23 - Luis Aloma, Cuban 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 20 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish - American Poet (D. 1997 * September 22 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet * September 26 - Dev Anand, Indian actor * 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, Catalonia soprano (d. 2005) **Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001) * 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 9 - Katherine Mansfield, British novelist (b. 1888) * 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 Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1846) * October 30 - Andrew Bonar Law, former British Prime Minister (b. 1858) * December 12 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903) * December 13 - Théophile Steinlen, Swiss painter (b. 1859) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Robert Andrews Millikan * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Fritz Pregl * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Frederick Banting, John James Richard Macleod for the discovery of insulin * Nobel Prize in literature - William Butler Yeats * Nobel Prize/Peace - Not awarded 1923 ka:1923 la:1923 os:1923 se:1923 sq:1923 scn:1923 simple:1923
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ==Events== ===January-June=== * January 1 - Grouping Act of all United Kingdom railway companies into four larger companies * January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel * January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium Occupation of the Ruhr 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 (BB-18) 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 Union government. * April - End of Irish Civil War * April 23 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport * April 26 - Wedding of George VI of the United Kingdom 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 World War I * 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 Poland seaport * August 13 - Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany and founds a coalition government in Weimar Republic Germany * September 1 - Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, Kanagawa killing 142.807 people * September 4 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the "USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 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 9 - Atatürk founded the CHP. * September 13 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. * September 18-September 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, Countess of Southesk 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. * Finland 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== * 1923 in aviation * 1923 in film * 1923 in literature * 1923 in music * 1923 in rail transport * 1923 in science * 1923 in sports * 1923 in Canada ==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 in Physiology or Medicine-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) **Liz Smith (journalist), 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 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003) **Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official * February 27 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player (d. 1990) ===March-April=== * March 1 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer, poet, and science fiction editor (d. 1999) * March 6 - Ed McMahon, American television personality **Jurgen 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 (comedian), 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 **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, Irish 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 - Dorothy Hewett, writer (d. 2002) **Ara Parseghian, American football coach * May 27 - Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize * May 28 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer * May 31 - Prince Rainier III, Prince of Monaco 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 - Stanislaw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005) * July 22 - Robert Joseph Dole, American politician and Presidential candidate **Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976) * July 23 - Luis Aloma, Cuban 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 20 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish - American Poet (D. 1997 * September 22 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet * September 26 - Dev Anand, Indian actor * 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, Catalonia soprano (d. 2005) **Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001) * 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 9 - Katherine Mansfield, British novelist (b. 1888) * 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 Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1846) * October 30 - Andrew Bonar Law, former British Prime Minister (b. 1858) * December 12 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903) * December 13 - Théophile Steinlen, Swiss painter (b. 1859) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Robert Andrews Millikan * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Fritz Pregl * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - Frederick Banting, John James Richard Macleod for the discovery of insulin * Nobel Prize in literature - William Butler Yeats * Nobel Prize/Peace - Not awarded 1923 ka:1923 la:1923 os:1923 se:1923 sq:1923 scn:1923 simple:1923
1923
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