Today in History for Year 1923

Months in Year 1923: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 307

Jan 1st - Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
Jan 1st - Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR.
Jan 2nd - Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
Jan 4th - 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Fort Worth Texas)
Jan 4th - Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin
Jan 7th - Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
Jan 8th - Typography strike in Amsterdam
Jan 9th - Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
Jan 10th - Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
Jan 10th - Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
Jan 11th - 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)
Jan 11th - French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
Jan 17th - Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
Jan 17th - Origin of Brown lunation numbers
Jan 18th - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
Jan 19th - WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
Jan 23rd - Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
Jan 24th - Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established
Jan 25th - NVV donates 100,000 gulden to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin Jan 28th - 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
Jan 28th - Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
Jan 28th - NSDAP 1st election in Munich
Jan 29th - 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
Feb 1st - Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
Feb 1st - Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini
Feb 1st - Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London
Feb 2nd - Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
Feb 2nd - US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
Feb 3rd - The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
Feb 5th - General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
Feb 5th - Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
Feb 8th - Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
Feb 8th - German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
Feb 9th - Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini Feb 10th - Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
Feb 10th - Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in NYC
Feb 10th - SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
Feb 13th - 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes
Feb 16th - Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory
Feb 16th - Howard Carter finds Pharaoh Tutankhamen
Feb 16th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
Feb 16th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
Feb 17th - Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
Feb 18th - Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
Feb 19th - Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres
Feb 19th - Philip Barry's "You & I," premieres in NYC
Feb 20th - Christy Mathewson becomes pres of Boston Braves
Feb 21st - Andre Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London
Feb 22nd - 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA California)
Archaeologist and Discoverer of Tutankhamun Howard Carter Feb 22nd - Transcontinental airmail service begins
Feb 23rd - German Republic day with laws against worker
Feb 23rd - Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
Feb 24th - Flying Scotsman goes into service
Feb 24th - Mass arrests in US of mafia
Feb 25th - Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
Feb 26th - Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
Feb 28th - Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
Mar 1st - Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
Mar 2nd - Time magazine debuts
Mar 3rd - Time magazine publishes 1st issue [or March 23]
Mar 3rd - US Senate rejects membership in Intl Court of Justice, The Hague
Mar 4th - Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)
Mar 5th - 1st old age pension plans in US established by Montana & Nevada
Mar 5th - Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
Mar 6th - Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
Mar 9th - Amsterdam taxi strike ended
Mar 9th - Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in NYC
Mar 9th - NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
Mar 13th - Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
Mar 14th - Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicia in Poland
Mar 14th - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
Mar 14th - Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes
Mar 15th - Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
Mar 16th - Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna
Mar 20th - Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA
Mar 20th - Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
Mar 21st - US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
Mar 22nd - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
Mar 23rd - Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
Mar 25th - British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
Mar 26th - Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
Mar 30th - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates
Mar 31st - 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
Mar 31st - French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
Mar 31st - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edm Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games
Apr 3rd - 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
Tire Industrialist Harvey Firestone Apr 5th - Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production
Apr 6th - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
Apr 7th - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
Apr 7th - Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
Apr 9th - Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin
Apr 10th - Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
Apr 13th - Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
Apr 14th - Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
Apr 15th - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
Apr 15th - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
Apr 17th - Longest NL opening game, Phillies & Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14
Apr 18th - 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
Apr 18th - Poland annexes Central Lithuania
Apr 19th - 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:23:37.4

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 599

Jan 1st - Chalmers Goodlin, US test pilot (XS-1)
Jan 1st - Milton Jackson, US, vibraphonist (Milt of Bags)
Jan 1st - Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
Jan 3rd - Dragutin Gostuski, composer
Jan 3rd - Charles Tingwell, Australian actor
Jan 4th - Flavio Testi, composer
Jan 5th - Robert L Bernstein, NYC, publisher (Random House)
Jan 5th - Sam Phillips, musician/record founder (Sun)
Jan 5th - Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
Jan 6th - Leah Chase, master chef, in the creole tradition
Jan 6th - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
Jan 7th - Charles Russell Woolen, composer
Jan 7th - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
Jan 8th - Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Illinois, basso
Jan 8th - Iva Michiels, [Rik Ceuppens], Flemish writer (Ksiega Alfa)
Jan 8th - Johnny Wardle, cricketer (Yorkshire & England left-arm bowler of 50's)
Jan 8th - Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer
Jan 8th - Larry Storch, NYC, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show)
Jan 8th - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008)
Jan 10th - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer
Jan 11th - Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, automobile designer and businessman, (d. 2012)
Jan 12th - Ira Hayes, American soldier (d. 1955)
Jan 13th - Danil Shafran, cellist
Jan 13th - Jack Watling, London, actor (Nanny, Adventure for 2, Naked Heart)
Jan 15th - Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- )
Jan 15th - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
Jan 16th - Martin Stokken, Norway, nordic relay (Olympic-silver-1952)
Jan 16th - Roy Lanham, rocker (Sons of the Pioneers)
Jan 16th - Willem Aantjes, Dutch politicial leader (CDA)
Jan 16th - Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer
Jan 16th - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
Jan 17th - Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Lifespan, Broken Mirrors, The Lift)
Jan 17th - Carol Raye, Australian actress
Jan 19th - Jean Stapleton, NYC, actress (Damn Yankees, Klute, All in the Family)
Jan 19th - Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
Jan 20th - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
Jan 21st - Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer
Jan 22nd - Diana Douglas, Devonshire Bermuda, actress (The Cowboys)
Jan 22nd - Friedrich Zehm, composer
Jan 22nd - Leslie Bassett, composer
Jan 23rd - Florence Halop, Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)
Jan 23rd - Horace Ashenfelter, US, 3000m steeplechase (Olympic-gold-1952)
Jan 23rd - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars)
Jan 24th - Simeon ten Holt, composer
Jan 25th - Eva Zeller, writer
Jan 25th - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
Jan 25th - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998)
Jan 26th - Anne Jeffreys, NC, actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital)
Jan 29th - Paddy Chayevsky, [Sydney], US, dramatist (Marty, Hospital) (d. 1981)
Jan 31st - Eddie Ryder, NYC, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital)
Jan 31st - Joanne Dru, Logan WV, actress (Guestwood Ho, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
Novelist Norman Mailer (Jan 31st) Jan 31st - Norman Mailer, Long Branch NJ, NYC mayoral candidate/novelist (Naked & the Dead), (d. 2007)
Feb 2nd - Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
Feb 2nd - Bonita Granville, NYC, actress (Hitler's Children, Lone Ranger)
Feb 2nd - James Dickey, Atlanta, poet/actor (Deliverance)
Feb 2nd - Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Tx, journlist/author (WNBC, NY Daily News)
Feb 2nd - Peter Fowler, physicist
Feb 2nd - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
Feb 3rd - Alys Robi, Quebec singer
Feb 4th - Conrad Bain, Alberta Canada, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes), (d. 2013)
Feb 5th - Stephen J Cannell, TV producer/writer
Feb 5th - Claude King, American musician, (d. 2013)
Feb 6th - Maurice Le Roux, composer
Feb 7th - George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent Garden)
Feb 7th - Keefe Brasselle, Elyria Ohio, actor (Be Our Guest)
Feb 7th - Martha Holmes, American photographer (d. 2006)
Feb 8th - Andrew MacElhone, bar owner
Irish Poet and Playwright Brendan Behan (Feb 9th) Feb 9th - Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)
Feb 9th - Kathryn Grayson, NC, vocalist/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate)
Feb 9th - Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
Feb 10th - Cesare Siepi, Milan Italy, basso (NY Metropolitan Opera)
Feb 11th - Baroness Sharples
Feb 11th - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
Feb 12th - Franco Zeffirelli, Florence Italy, director (Romeo & Juliet)
Feb 12th - James Abdnor, (Sen-R-SD, 1981-87), (d. 2012)
Feb 12th - Mel Powell, composer
Feb 12th - Chaskel Besser, Orthodox rabbi
Feb 13th - Chuck Yeagar, US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
Feb 13th - Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician (d. 2002)
Feb 13th - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese violinist (d. 2003)
Feb 14th - Derrick Holden-Brown, CEO (Allied-Lyons)
Feb 14th - Jay Herbert, golfer (1960 PGA winner)
Feb 15th - Justice Drake, British justice
Feb 15th - Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Magician, Amanda's)
Feb 15th - Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
Feb 17th - Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton Ill, banker (Pres of World Bank)
Feb 18th - Allan Melvin, KC Mo, actor (Brady Bunch, Barney-All in Family)
Feb 19th - Donald Lybbert, composer
Feb 20th - Forbes Burnham, premier Guyana (1964-85)
Feb 21st - Lola Flores, entertainer
Feb 21st - Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ruthless, Ziegfeld Follies)
Feb 21st - Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School)
Feb 23rd - Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet
Feb 23rd - Dante Lavelli, AAFC/NFL end wide receiver (Cleveland Browns)
Feb 23rd - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
Feb 24th - David Soyer, American cellist
Feb 25th - Roger Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
Feb 27th - Dexter Gordon, US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection)
Feb 27th - Viktor Kalabis, composer
Feb 28th - Charles Durning, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie), (d. 2012)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Mar 23rd - Writer Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus) marries banker and artist Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana, Cuba
Apr 26th - English prince Albert Duke of York (George VI) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey
Oct 14th - "All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds Ilse Jutta Zambona

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 72 of 72

Jan 2nd - Sam Carter, black resident of Rosewood Florida, lynched by KKK
Jan 3rd - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39
Jan 9th - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand short story writer (Dove's Nest), dies of tuberculosis at 34
Jan 11th - Constantine I, king of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), dies at 54
Jan 14th - Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
Jan 18th - Wallace Reid, actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31
Jan 23rd - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
Feb 6th - Edward E Barnard, US astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65
Feb 10th - Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77
Feb 11th - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847)
Feb 15th - Josephine B Willson Bruce, US black theorist, dies at 69
Feb 19th - Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer, dies at 68
Feb 27th - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer, dies at 67
Mar 8th - Johannes van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
Mar 8th - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
Mar 22nd - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71
Mar 26th - Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Queen Elizabeth), dies at 77
Mar 27th - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
Apr 4th - L Martov, [Joulij O Tsederbaum], Russ revolutionary, dies at 49
Physicist/Nobel Laureate Johannes van der Waals (Mar 8th) Apr 4th - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
Apr 5th - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
Apr 9th - Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies
Apr 19th - Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75
Apr 25th - Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
May 10th - Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
May 14th - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
May 20th - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
May 30th - Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
May 30th - Charles Fichardt, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96), dies
Jun 5th - George H Breitner, impressionist painter, dies at 65
Jun 10th - Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
Jun 15th - Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies
Jun 20th - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
Jun 26th - Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies
Jun 29th - Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73
Jun 29th - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer, dies at 66
Jun 29th - J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st VP, assassinated
Jun 30th - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56
Jul 4th - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
Jul 13th - Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], German(?) composer, dies at 80
Jul 14th - Louis Ganne, composer, dies at 61
Jul 16th - Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60
Jul 20th - Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 55
Aug 2nd - Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57
Aug 5th - Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
Aug 7th - Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (H Pierson Foundation), dies at 89
Aug 14th - Jacob T Cremer, pres (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76
Aug 19th - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
Aug 24th - Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66
Sep 12th - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
Sep 15th - Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31
Sep 22nd - Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse
Oct 12th - A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies
Oct 14th - George Elbridge Whiting, composer, dies at 83
Oct 14th - Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies
Oct 30th - Andrew Bonar Law, English PM (C), dies at 64
Nov 5th - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist (b. 1880)
Nov 19th - French Netscher, author/journalist (In 3rd Chamber), dies at 59
Nov 23rd - Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
Nov 24th - Michel de Klerk, architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 39
Nov 25th - Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Moon Atlas), dies at 83
Nov 25th - Syd Callaway, cricket all-round (3 Tests for Australia 1891-95), dies
Nov 26th - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
Dec 1st - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
Dec 2nd - Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer, dies at 72
Dec 8th - Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88
Dec 12th - Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20
Dec 14th - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer, dies at 72
Dec 16th - Pongrac Kacsoh, composer, dies at 50
Dec 22nd - Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67
Dec 26th - Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (b. 1868)
French Engineer Gustave Eiffel (Dec 27th) Dec 27th - Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre], engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91