1923

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 3.1 March-April 3.2 May-November 3.3 December 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes

Events

\n* January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies\n* January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel \n* January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments\n* February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun\n* March - Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias.\n* March 1 - USS Connecticut decommissioned\n* March 2 - Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time\n* March 9 - Vladmir Lenin suffers a stroke, his third, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.\n* April - End of Irish Civil War\n* April 23 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport\n* June 9 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. \n* July 24 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War\n*August 2 - Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th President of the United States (1921 - 1923) dies in office and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929).\n*August 13 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport\n* September 1 - Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing about 140,000 people\n* September 4 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the "USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time\n* October 29 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire\n* November 8 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. Police and troops crush the attempt the next day\n* November 12- Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, London.

• Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor\n* Finnish flag carrier Finnair airline started in Aero Oy\n* Interpol is set up

Year in topic

\n* 1923 in aviation\n* 1923 in film\n* 1923 in literature\n* 1923 in music\n* 1923 in science\n* 1923 in sports\n* 1923 in Canada

Births

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January-February

\n* January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent (d. 1944)\n* January 7 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director\n* January 5 - Sam Phillips, country music producer (d. 2003)\n* January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (d. 1999)\n* January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)\n* January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, French actress\n* January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress\n* January 25 - Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize winning scientist\n* January 26 - Anne Jeffreys, actress\n* January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (d. 1981)\n* January 31 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist\n* February 2 - James Dickey, poet, author (d. 1997)\n* February 2 - Liz Smith, gossip columnist\n* February 9 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964)\n* February 11 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat\n* February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director\n* February 13 - Chuck Yeager, pilot\n* February 27 - Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophone player (d. 1990)

March-April

\n* March 6 - Ed McMahon, television personality\n* March 6 - Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist (d. 1994)\n* March 8 - Walter Jens, writer\n* March 9 - Walter Kohn, physicist, winner 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry \n* March 12 - Wally Schirra, astronaut\n* March 21 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava, the founder of Sahaja Yoga\n* March 22 - Marcel Marceau, mime\n* March 24 - Kermit Schafer, humorist (d. 1979)\n* March 26 - Bob Elliott, comedian\n* March 27 - Louis Simpson, poet\n* March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright\n* April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician\n* April 20 - Mother Angelica, founder of Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) Catholic cable TV channel\n* April 22 - Bettie Page, pinup model\n* April 22 - Aaron Spelling, television producer, writer\n* April 23 - Dolph Briscoe, former governor of Texas

May-November

\n* May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (d. 1999)\n* May 2 - Patrick Hillery, sixth President of Ireland\n* May 7 - Anne Baxter, actress (d. 1985)\n* May 13 - Bea Arthur, actress\n* May 21 - Ara Parseghian, American football coach\n* May 27 - Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973\n* May 28 - György Ligeti, composer\n* May 31 - Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later Prince Rainer III of Monaco\n* July 2 - Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poetess, the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1996\n* July 8 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete\n* September 1 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, businessman, art collector\n* September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia\n* September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1976\n* September 22 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet \n* October 5 - Glynis Johns, British actress\n* October 23 - Frank Sutton, actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C) (d. 1974)\n* November 22 - Arthur Hiller, film director

December

\n* December 2 - Maria Callas, opera diva (d. 1977)\n* December 13 - Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003)\n* December 13 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish abstract expressionist painter\n* December 14 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer\n* December 23 - James Stockdale, United States Navy admiral\n* December 25 - Sonia Olschanezky, World War II heroine executed by the Nazis (d. 1944)

Deaths

\n* January 23 - Max Nordau, author, philosopher and Zionist leader (* 1849)\n* February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen, physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate\n* February 23 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)\n* March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress\n* March 27 - Sir James Dewar, chemist\n* June 9 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen Victoria, aunt of King George V

Nobel Prizes

\n* Physics - Robert Andrews Millikan\n* Chemistry - Fritz Pregl\n* Medicine - Frederick Grant Banting, John James Richard Macleod for the discovery of insulin\n* Literature - William Butler Yeats\n* Peace - Not awarded \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n