1923
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| Years: 1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926 | |
| Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s | |
| Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century | |
1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).
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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 9 - Atatürk founded the CHP.
- 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
- 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-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, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 23 - Witto Aloma, Cuban 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, Catalan 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 Queen Victoria (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 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 awardedaf:1923
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