01 Jan 1923
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Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
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01 Jan 1923
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Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS. |
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02 Jan 1923
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Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Florida, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
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04 Jan 1923
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1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Ft Worth Texas)
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07 Jan 1923
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Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
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08 Jan 1923
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Typography strike in Amsterdam
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09 Jan 1923
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Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
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09 Jan 1923
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Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. |
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09 Jan 1923
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Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. |
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10 Jan 1923
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Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel. |
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10 Jan 1923
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Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
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10 Jan 1923
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Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
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11 Jan 1923
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1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)
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11 Jan 1923
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Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments. |
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11 Jan 1923
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French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
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15 Jan 1923
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Lithuania seizes & annexes the country of Memel
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17 Jan 1923
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Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
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17 Jan 1923
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Origin of Brown lunation numbers
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18 Jan 1923
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1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
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19 Jan 1923
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WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
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23 Jan 1923
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Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
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24 Jan 1923
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Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established
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25 Jan 1923
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NVV donates
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28 Jan 1923
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1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
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28 Jan 1923
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1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
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28 Jan 1923
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Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
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28 Jan 1923
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NSDAP 1st election in Munich
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29 Jan 1923
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1st flight of the autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
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01 Feb 1923
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Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
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01 Feb 1923
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Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
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02 Feb 1923
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Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
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02 Feb 1923
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US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
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05 Feb 1923
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General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
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05 Feb 1923
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Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy
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08 Feb 1923
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Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
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08 Feb 1923
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German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
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09 Feb 1923
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Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
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10 Feb 1923
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Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas |
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10 Feb 1923
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Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
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10 Feb 1923
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Owen Davis' "Icebound" premieres in New York NY
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10 Feb 1923
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SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
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13 Feb 1923
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1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance, " organizes
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15 Feb 1923
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Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar. |
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16 Feb 1923
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Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. |
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16 Feb 1923
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Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen
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16 Feb 1923
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Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory
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16 Feb 1923
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US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
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16 Feb 1923
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US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
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17 Feb 1923
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Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
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18 Feb 1923
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Belgium Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
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19 Feb 1923
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Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres
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19 Feb 1923
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Philip Barry's "You & I" premieres in New York NY
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20 Feb 1923
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Christy Mathewson becomes president of Boston Braves
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22 Feb 1923
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1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles, California)
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22 Feb 1923
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Transcontinental airmail service begins
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23 Feb 1923
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German Republic day with laws against worker
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23 Feb 1923
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Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
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24 Feb 1923
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Flying Scotsman goes into service
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24 Feb 1923
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Mass arrests in US of Mafia
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25 Feb 1923
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Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
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26 Feb 1923
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Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts)
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28 Feb 1923
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Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to the Netherlands
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01 Mar 1923
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Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
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02 Mar 1923
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Time magazine debuts
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03 Mar 1923
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US Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague
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03 Mar 1923
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TIME magazine is published for the first time. |
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05 Mar 1923
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1st old age pension plans in US established by Montana and Nevada
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05 Mar 1923
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Montana and Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
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06 Mar 1923
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Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
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09 Mar 1923
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Amsterdam taxi strike ended
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09 Mar 1923
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NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
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13 Mar 1923
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Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)
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14 Mar 1923
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President Warren G Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes
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14 Mar 1923
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Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galici
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14 Mar 1923
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German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
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14 Mar 1923
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President Warren G Harding became 1st President filing income tax report and pay taxes
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15 Mar 1923
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Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
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16 Mar 1923
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche" premieres in Vienna
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20 Mar 1923
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The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States. |
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20 Mar 1923
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Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA
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20 Mar 1923
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Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
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21 Mar 1923
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US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
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23 Mar 1923
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Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
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25 Mar 1923
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British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
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26 Mar 1923
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Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
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30 Mar 1923
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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates
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31 Mar 1923
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1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours
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31 Mar 1923
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French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
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31 Mar 1923
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Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games
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03 Apr 1923
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event
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2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
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05 Apr 1923
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Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production
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05 Apr 1923
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires. |
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06 Apr 1923
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The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia. |
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07 Apr 1923
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1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
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07 Apr 1923
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Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
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10 Apr 1923
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Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
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10 Apr 1923
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Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
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13 Apr 1923
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Army wins the 1st college three-weapon fencing championship
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14 Apr 1923
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Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
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15 Apr 1923
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Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
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15 Apr 1923
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Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. |
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15 Apr 1923
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1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
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17 Apr 1923
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Longest National League opening game, Phillies & Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14
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18 Apr 1923
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Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens. |
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18 Apr 1923
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74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
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18 Apr 1923
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Poland annexes Central Lithuania
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19 Apr 1923
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New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
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24 Apr 1923
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In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego. |
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24 Apr 1923
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Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
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24 Apr 1923
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General harbor strike begins in New York NY
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26 Apr 1923
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The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. |
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26 Apr 1923
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English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
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27 Apr 1923
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event
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Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
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28 Apr 1923
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event
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Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
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02 May 1923
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event
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Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0
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03 May 1923
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event
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1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
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04 May 1923
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event
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New York state revokes Prohibition law
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07 May 1923
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event
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Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
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11 May 1923
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event
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10 homeruns hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cardinals
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12 May 1923
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event
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49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6
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13 May 1923
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Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified. |
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13 May 1923
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event
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Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
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15 May 1923
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event
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Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
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17 May 1923
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Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (South Carolina)
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19 May 1923
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event
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49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4
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19 May 1923
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event
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KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
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20 May 1923
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event
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Stanley Baldwin, becomes Prime Minister of the UK
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20 May 1923
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event
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Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
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22 May 1923
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Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier
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23 May 1923
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event
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1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
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25 May 1923
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Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
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26 May 1923
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The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June. |
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26 May 1923
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1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run
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26 May 1923
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Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
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28 May 1923
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Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
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28 May 1923
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event
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US unemployment has nearly ended
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30 May 1923
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event
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Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres
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31 May 1923
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China and the USSR exchange diplomats
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01 Jun 1923
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event
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New York Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
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09 Jun 1923
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event
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55th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:19
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09 Jun 1923
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event
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Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
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09 Jun 1923
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Bulgarian Premier Stamboeliski and King Boris III overthrown
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09 Jun 1923
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Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. |
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12 Jun 1923
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event
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Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
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12 Jun 1923
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event
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Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended
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14 Jun 1923
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event
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Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
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14 Jun 1923
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event
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Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the
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16 Jun 1923
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event
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Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
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18 Jun 1923
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event
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Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets. |
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19 Jun 1923
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event
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"Moon Mullins, " Comic Strip, debuts
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19 Jun 1923
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event
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Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
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21 Jun 1923
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event
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Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using the mail to defraud
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24 Jun 1923
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event
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Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
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25 Jun 1923
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event
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Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane |
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28 Jun 1923
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event
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Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry for state visit to London
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28 Jun 1923
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event
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Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Philles score 8 in bottom of 9th
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30 Jun 1923
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event
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New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
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01 Jul 1923
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event
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1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF New York and WMAF Massachusetts)
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01 Jul 1923
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event
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The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. |
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03 Jul 1923
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event
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Harbor strike in Hull / Grimsby / Cardiff / Bristol over to London
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04 Jul 1923
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event
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Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Jul 1923
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event
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36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
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06 Jul 1923
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event
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
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07 Jul 1923
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event
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43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
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07 Jul 1923
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event
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Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
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07 Jul 1923
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event
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University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
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08 Jul 1923
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event
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Harding becomes 1st sitting President to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
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08 Jul 1923
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event
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Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen / Oostland
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10 Jul 1923
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event
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2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)
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10 Jul 1923
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event
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All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy
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11 Jul 1923
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event
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Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
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12 Jul 1923
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event
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K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #997 Priska & #3682
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13 Jul 1923
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event
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Draft law passes
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13 Jul 1923
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event
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The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. |
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15 Jul 1923
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event
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27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood Country Club - New York
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15 Jul 1923
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event
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Italian parliament accepts new constitution
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17 Jul 1923
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event
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Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
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19 Jul 1923
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event
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WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
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20 Jul 1923
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event
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Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
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21 Jul 1923
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event
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Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4
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22 Jul 1923
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event
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Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
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22 Jul 1923
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event
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Walter Johnson becomes the 1st to strikeout 3,000
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24 Jul 1923
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event
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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. |
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24 Jul 1923
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event
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Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
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25 Jul 1923
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event
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German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
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26 Jul 1923
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event
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James Hoyt Wilhelm, pitcher
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29 Jul 1923
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event
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Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
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29 Jul 1923
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event
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KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
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30 Jul 1923
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event
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New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
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31 Jul 1923
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event
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Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University
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02 Aug 1923
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event
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Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding |
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03 Aug 1923
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event
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Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding
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03 Aug 1923
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event
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VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th President
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05 Aug 1923
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event
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1st American to swim English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
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09 Aug 1923
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event
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New York State Golf Association formed
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11 Aug 1923
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event
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Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
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12 Aug 1923
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event
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Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as Minister of Finances
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12 Aug 1923
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event
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Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
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13 Aug 1923
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event
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Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes Premier of coalition government
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13 Aug 1923
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event
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Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as President
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13 Aug 1923
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event
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US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
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13 Aug 1923
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event
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Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey
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15 Aug 1923
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event
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Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
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15 Aug 1923
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event
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Mexico and US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
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16 Aug 1923
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event
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The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator. |
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18 Aug 1923
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event
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37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
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20 Aug 1923
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event
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London harbor strike ends
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22 Aug 1923
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event
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Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4)
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24 Aug 1923
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event
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Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
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31 Aug 1923
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event
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League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
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01 Sep 1923
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event
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18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
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01 Sep 1923
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event
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7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo andYokohama, kills 142,000
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01 Sep 1923
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event
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US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
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01 Sep 1923
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event
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The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people. |
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04 Sep 1923
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event
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A Charlot and N Cowards revue "London Calling, " premieres in London
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04 Sep 1923
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event
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New York Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia Athletics, 2-0
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04 Sep 1923
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event
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Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. |
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05 Sep 1923
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event
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Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
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06 Sep 1923
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event
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Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
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07 Sep 1923
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event
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Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia Athletics, 4-0
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07 Sep 1923
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event
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Interpol forms in Vienna
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07 Sep 1923
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event
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Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23
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08 Sep 1923
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event
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Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. |
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09 Sep 1923
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event
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Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
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09 Sep 1923
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event
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party. |
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10 Sep 1923
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event
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Irish Free state joins League of Nations
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11 Sep 1923
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event
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Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
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11 Sep 1923
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event
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After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
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11 Sep 1923
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The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
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12 Sep 1923
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Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Company
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12 Sep 1923
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Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom. |
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13 Sep 1923
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Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. |
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14 Sep 1923
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Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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14 Sep 1923
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Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
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14 Sep 1923
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Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
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15 Sep 1923
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43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
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15 Sep 1923
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Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open
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15 Sep 1923
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Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror
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19 Sep 1923
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Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann, " premieres in Leipzig
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23 Sep 1923
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80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law
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24 Sep 1923
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Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)
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26 Sep 1923
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Stresemann Government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied
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26 Sep 1923
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Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations. |
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27 Sep 1923
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Italian troops leave occupied Korfu
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27 Sep 1923
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New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs
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27 Sep 1923
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Lou Gehrig's 1st homer
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28 Sep 1923
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Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations
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28 Sep 1923
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Radio Times 1st published
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28 Sep 1923
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Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4
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29 Sep 1923
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6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham Country Club - Pelham, New York
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29 Sep 1923
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The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine. |
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29 Sep 1923
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Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
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30 Sep 1923
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Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season
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02 Oct 1923
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British occuping army leaves Constantinople
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02 Oct 1923
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Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403
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04 Oct 1923
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Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
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05 Oct 1923
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Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
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06 Oct 1923
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1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
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06 Oct 1923
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2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms
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06 Oct 1923
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US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 km/h (record)
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06 Oct 1923
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USSR adopts experimental calendar
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06 Oct 1923
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The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul. |
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07 Oct 1923
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Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
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10 Oct 1923
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Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government
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10 Oct 1923
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NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium (World Series #20)
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11 Oct 1923
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Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
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11 Oct 1923
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German mark falls to 10 billion per
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12 Oct 1923
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NY Giants' Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in the world series (World Series #20)
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13 Oct 1923
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Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey. |
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15 Oct 1923
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New York Yankees 1st World Series win beating New York Giants, 4 games to 2
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15 Oct 1923
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The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic. |
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15 Oct 1923
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NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 (World Series #20)
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16 Oct 1923
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John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
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16 Oct 1923
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The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. |
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16 Oct 1923
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Disney Co founded
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17 Oct 1923
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Catholic University of Nijmegen Netherlands opens
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19 Oct 1923
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Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks
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21 Oct 1923
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1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
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21 Oct 1923
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Deutsches Museum, M
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22 Oct 1923
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The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. |
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23 Oct 1923
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Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
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23 Oct 1923
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Giants defeat Baltimore Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
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24 Oct 1923
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Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
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25 Oct 1923
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Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
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26 Oct 1923
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Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
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29 Oct 1923
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Army move SPD / KPD-Government to German part of Saxon
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29 Oct 1923
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Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins
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29 Oct 1923
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Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
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29 Oct 1923
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Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. |
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29 Oct 1923
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"Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway
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29 Oct 1923
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Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)
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31 Oct 1923
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The first of 160 consecutive days of 100º Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia. |
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01 Nov 1923
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Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E / Y (Finnair)
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02 Nov 1923
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Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven)
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06 Nov 1923
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Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric shaver
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06 Nov 1923
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USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
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09 Nov 1923
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Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die / Hitler flees
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10 Nov 1923
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German ex-crown Prince flees Netherlands for Germany
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11 Nov 1923
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Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph
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12 Nov 1923
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In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power November 8
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20 Nov 1923
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Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal
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22 Nov 1923
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Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
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23 Nov 1923
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German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD
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30 Nov 1923
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Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms
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03 Dec 1923
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1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington, DC)
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04 Dec 1923
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WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
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06 Dec 1923
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1st presidential address broadcast on radio (President Calvin Coolidge)
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08 Dec 1923
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German-US friendship treaty signed
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08 Dec 1923
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Labour / Liberals win British parliament
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08 Dec 1923
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Salary and price freeze in Germany
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10 Dec 1923
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Polish government of Grabski, forms
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14 Dec 1923
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Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)
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17 Dec 1923
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Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
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18 Dec 1923
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International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
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21 Dec 1923
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United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816. |
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21 Dec 1923
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Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
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22 Dec 1923
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Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Victoria
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23 Dec 1923
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Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
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25 Dec 1923
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Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St, New York City
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27 Dec 1923
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Daisuke Namba, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito. |
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27 Dec 1923
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Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan
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28 Dec 1923
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George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan" premieres in New York NY
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31 Dec 1923
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1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
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31 Dec 1923
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BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID
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31 Dec 1923
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Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots" premieres in New York NY
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