1923 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1923?
- 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 16, 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
- March 22, 1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- March 24, 1923 – Greece becomes a republic.
- April 5, 1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
- May 13, 1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
- June 9, 1923 – Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup.
- June 18, 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
- June 27, 1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
- July 24, 1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
- 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 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 29, 1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- October 31, 1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia.
- 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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