1923 - What happened in 1923 ?

January 1923

Tuesday 02:

U.S. Interior Secretary Albert Fall resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.

Tuesday 09:

Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight.

Wednesday 10:

Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.

Thursday 11:

Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.

February 1923

Friday 16:

Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Thursday 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 1923

Saturday 03:

TIME magazine is published for the first time.

Wednesday 14:

Pete Parker does the first-ever complete radio broadcast of a hockey game in the world, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Saturday 24:

In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.

Tuesday 27:

FART construction completed.

April 1923

Thursday 05:

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts production of balloon-tires.

Thursday 12:

Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.

Sunday 15:

Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.

Wednesday 18:

Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.

Monday 23:

Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter.

May 1923

Saturday 05:

Coco Chanel introduces Chanel No. 5 perfume.

Wednesday 23:

Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.

Sunday 27:

The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.

June 1923

Saturday 09:

Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.

Monday 18:

Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets

July 1923

Sunday 01:

Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.

Friday 06:

Treaty of Union signed by Russia, Transcaucasia, Ukraine and Belarus, establishing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Friday 13:

The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.

Tuesday 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 1923

Friday 03:

Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.

Monday 13:

First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.

September 1923

Saturday 01:

The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 100,000 people.

Tuesday 04:

In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.

Saturday 08:

Honda Point Disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.

Sunday 09:

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).

Thursday 13:

Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.

October 1923

Sunday 07:

Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138.

Thursday 25:

United States Senate begins investigating the Teapot Dome Scandal

Monday 29:

Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

November 1923

Saturday 03:

Lady Louise Mountbatten marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden

Thursday 08:

Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

Friday 09:

In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.

December 1923

Friday 21:

Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent state