Historical Events In 1923

Jul 26 James Hoyt Wilhelm, pitcher

Jul 22 Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000

Jul 10 All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy

Jul 02 Commissioning of Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.

Jul 30 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency

Jul 06 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed

Jul 12 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #997 Priska & #3682

Jul 24 Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne

Jul 10 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)

Jul 09 Calgary Alberta, Guy Weadick holds first Chuckwagon Race at the Stampede, persuading 6 local ranchers to risk their wagons and horses in what will be billed as 'the half mile of hell'

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

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