Historical Events In 1923

Mar 14 President Warren G Harding became first President filing income tax report and pay taxes

Mar 15 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke

Mar 20 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent

Mar 21 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition

Mar 23 Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"

Mar 03 Time magazine publishes first issue

Mar 22 The birth of Marcel Marceau, French Mime artist

Mar 07 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad

Mar 03 US Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague

Mar 09 Amsterdam taxi strike ended

Mar 14 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP

Mar 30 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates

Mar 24 In China a 7.3 earthquake resulted in 5,000 dead. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

Mar 25 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy

Mar 14 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicië in Poland

Mar 20 Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA

Mar 31 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die

Mar 04 Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)

Mar 27 Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist whose inventions include the thermos flask and cordite, dies.

Mar 01 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied; killing railroad striker

Mar 13 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)

Mar 02 Time magazine first edition

Mar 05 Montana & Nevada become first states to enact old age pension laws

Aug 12 Enrico Tiraboschi is first to swim English Channel westward

Aug 03 Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the death of Warren G. Harding.

Aug 05 First American to swim the English Channel (Henry Sullivan)

Aug 29 The birth of Lord Richard Attenborough, British actor and Director

Aug 01 Pres Harding dies at Palace Hotel, SF

Aug 13 Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey

Sep 01 Earthquake strikes Tokyo &Yokohama, kills 106,000

Sep 11 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower

Sep 30 The birth of Deborah Kerr, English born film actress

Sep 05 Flyweights Gene LaRue &Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously

Sep 06 Publisher Edward P.Dutton dies.

Sep 07 The birth of Peter Lawford, English actor

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