1923 Details, Meaning 1923 Article and Explanation Guide

1923 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births

3.1 January-February
3.2 March-April
3.3 May-November
3.4 December

4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes
6 See also

Events

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
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
June 9 - Military coup in Bulgaria - prime minister Alexander Stambulisk is ousted (he is killed June 14)
June 18 - Etna volcano erupts - 60.000 made homeless
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 13 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over
September 18-26 - Newspaper printers strike in New York
September 26 - In Bayern, Gustav von Kuhr declares independence from Berlin
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

Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor
Finnish flag carrier Finnair airline started in Aero Oy
Interpol is set up
International Police Conference in Vienna
Hoda Cha'arawi Association (formerly The Egyptian Feminist Union) established in Egypt
Trade unions banned in Spain for 10 years
Police strike in Australia
Regia Aeronautica, air force of Fascist italy, founded