1923 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1923?
- January 9, 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
- 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 10, 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
- February 16, 1923 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- March 20, 1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso’s first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
- March 22, 1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- March 24, 1923 – Greece becomes a republic.
- May 13, 1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
- June 18, 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- July 13, 1923 – 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.
- August 2, 1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
- August 23, 1923 – Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
- September 9, 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- September 13, 1923 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- September 14, 1923 – Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- September 26, 1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic’s payment of reparations.
- October 16, 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
- October 29, 1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- November 20, 1923 – Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
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