1923 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1923?
- January 1, 1923 – Britain’s Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
- January 9, 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 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 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
- April 15, 1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
- April 18, 1923 – Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opens.
- April 26, 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
- June 18, 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- July 1, 1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- 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 6, 1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
- October 31, 1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia.
- November 8, 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- November 15, 1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
- December 27, 1923 – Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
- December 31, 1923 – The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
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