1923 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1923?
- January 9, 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 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 3, 1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- March 22, 1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- April 5, 1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
- April 18, 1923 – Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opens.
- June 18, 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- July 1, 1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- 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 1, 1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
- September 8, 1923 – Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- September 9, 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- October 6, 1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
- October 13, 1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
- 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
- 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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