01 Jan 1923
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Andrew McNaughton was promoted to the rank of colonel.
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06 Jan 1923
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Mitsuru Yoshida was born.
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10 Jan 1923
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Georg von Bismarck was transferred to the German 5th Infantry Regiment.
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12 Jan 1923
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Ira Hayes was born.
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17 Jan 1923
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The keel of light cruiser La Motte-Picquet was laid down by the Arsenal de Lorient in France.
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20 Jan 1923
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Captain Kanichi Taketomi was promoted from the executive officer to the commanding officer of Settsu.
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01 Feb 1923
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The Italian Fascist Party established the paramilitary Blackshirt legions.
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04 Feb 1923
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Prince Hiroyasu's father, Prince Sandanaru, passed away.
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05 Feb 1923
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USS R-1 began to participate in fleet exercises off Central America.
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05 Feb 1923
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USS R-5 participated in war games in the Gulf of Fonseca in Central America.
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12 Feb 1923
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Roderick Carr was attached to the Headquarters of Inland Area of the British Royal Air Force.
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13 Feb 1923
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Charles Yeager was born.
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21 Feb 1923
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S-32 was commissioned into service.
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01 Mar 1923
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Yura was commissioned into service.
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01 Mar 1923
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Rear Admiral Morie Tokiwa was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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08 Mar 1923
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USS S-31 was recommissioned into service upon completion of engine alternations.
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11 Mar 1923
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Death of Mary Ann Thomson, 89, American hymnwriter. Among her most enduring contributions to the Church were the lyrics to "O Zion, Haste, Thy Mission High Fulfilling," which she wrote at age 34.
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17 Mar 1923
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Iwane Matsui was promoted to the rank of major general.
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17 Mar 1923
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Kenkichi Ueda was made the commanding officer of 1st Cavalry Regiment.
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23 Mar 1923
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USS Iowa (Coast Battleship No. 4) was sunk as a radio-controlled target ship. At the behest of US Secretary of the Navy Denby, the National Anthem was played as she slipped beneath the water in recognition of the role that she had played in the 1898 Spanish-American War.
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01 Apr 1923
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Prince Yasuhiko was seriously injured in an automobile accident in a Paris suburb, France. Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa was killed in the same accident.
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06 Apr 1923
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USS R-1 completed its participation in fleet exercises off Central America.
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06 Apr 1923
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USS R-5 completed war games in the Gulf of Fonseca in Central America.
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10 Apr 1923
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Daimler Airways inaugurated the first scheduled air-service between London, England, United Kingdom and Berlin, Germany, with intermediate stops at Bremen, Germany and Hamburg, Germany.
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10 Apr 1923
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USS R-1 arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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12 Apr 1923
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Crown Prince Hirohito began a two-week tour of Taiwan.
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20 Apr 1923
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Quintin Brand was appointed a staff officer at the headquarters of the No. 5 Wing RAF.
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26 Apr 1923
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Prince Albert, Duke of York, married the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey, London, England, United Kingdom.
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07 May 1923
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USS S-35 was recommissioned into service at New London, Connecticut, United States.
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10 May 1923
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Hiroaki Abe became the chief torpedo officer of cruiser Tama.
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17 May 1923
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The sign of the General Government Building in Keijo (now Seoul), Korea was hung on the building during a ceremony.
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22 May 1923
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British Prime Minister Bonar Law resigned due to ill health and was succeeded by Stanley Baldwin.
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31 May 1923
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Rudolf Höss and a group of Nazi Party members killed suspected communist Walther Kadow in Mecklenburg, Germany to avenge the death of fellow party member Albert Leo Schlageter.
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01 Jun 1923
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Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Major.
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01 Jun 1923
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Vice Admiral Shozo Kuwashima was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea.
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01 Jun 1923
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Vice Admiral Shiro Yamauchi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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20 Jun 1923
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Milwaukee was commissioned into service.
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25 Jun 1923
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Oswald Mosley's son Nicholas Mosley was born.
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30 Jun 1923
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Henry Arnold's son John Arnold passed away from acute appendicitis.
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01 Jul 1923
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The value of the German Mark decreased to the level that it now cost about 160,000 Marks to exchange for US$1.
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03 Jul 1923
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Josef Stroop married Katharina B., the daughter of a minister from the Protestant Church of Lippe.
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16 Jul 1923
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S-37 was commissioned into service.
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16 Jul 1923
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USS R-1, along with the rest of the Submarine Division 9, was transferred to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii.
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16 Jul 1923
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USS R-5 arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii.
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20 Jul 1923
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The Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa was killed in an ambush at Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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23 Jul 1923
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Gustav Stresemann, the chairman of the Deutsche People's Party, wrote to Crown Prince Wilhelm suggesting that Germany's priority should be the removal of foreign occupation. Within a month Stresemann would be appointed as the new Chancellor.
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24 Jul 1923
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The Treaty of Lausanne was agreed between the Allies and Turkey (the successor state to the Ottoman Empire). This superseded the Treaty of Sèvres which had not been recognized by the new Turkish regime.
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31 Jul 1923
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Yubari was commissioned into service.
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31 Jul 1923
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Detroit was commissioned into service.
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01 Aug 1923
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The value of the German Mark decreased to the level that it now cost about 1,000,000 Marks to exchange for US$1.
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01 Aug 1923
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Edmund Herring transferred to the Australian Field Artillery of Australian Army.
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01 Aug 1923
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Devol Brett, the oldest son of George Brett, was born at the Letterman Army Hospital at the Presidio, San Francisco, California, United States.
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06 Aug 1923
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Kenkichi Ueda was promoted to the rank of major general and was attached to the aviation section of the Japanese Army.
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06 Aug 1923
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Major General Harumi Akai was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea.
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06 Aug 1923
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General Soroku Suzuki was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army.
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13 Aug 1923
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Deutsche People's Party leader Gustav Stresemann was appointed German Chancellor and Foreign Minister in a new Grand Coalition Government.
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14 Aug 1923
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Duguay-Trouin was launched at Brest, France.
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15 Aug 1923
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Isuzu was commissioned into service.
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22 Aug 1923
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The world's largest aircraft at the time of its appearance, the triplane Walter Barling designed XNBL-1 (eXperimental Night Bomber Long range) made its maiden flight. The prototype marked the first flight of a six engine American aircraft. Flying a total of 28 miles during its test flight from Dayton, Ohio, United States the XNBL-1 reached a speed of 93 mph, but unfortunately the aircraft was crippled by its under-powered Liberty inline engines and the project, as well as the improved XNBL-2 development, was abandoned in 1925.
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23 Aug 1923
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Settsu was made an accommodations ship by the Kure Sailor Corps at Kure, Japan.
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27 Aug 1923
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Italian General Enrico Tellini and four companions were ambushed and assassinated in Greek territory by Albanian bandits.
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29 Aug 1923
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Italy sent an ultimatum to Greece demanding an official apology for the murder of General Enrico Tellini, who was killed by Albanian bandits but in Greek territory.
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30 Aug 1923
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Colorado was commissioned into service.
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01 Sep 1923
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The first three combat legions of the Italian Blackshirts were mobilized and sent to Libya.
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01 Sep 1923
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Mutsu transported food and medical supplies for victims of the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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01 Sep 1923
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Prince Kotohito was inside his family mansion at Odawara, Japan when the Kanto Earthquake of 1923 struck; the building suffered damage but he escaped with minimal injuries.
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06 Sep 1923
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Petar II was born.
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06 Sep 1923
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Kakichi Uchida was named the governor-general of Taiwan.
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08 Sep 1923
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Chuichi Nagumo was named the chairman of a special Japanese Navy rescue committee in the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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13 Sep 1923
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Primo de Rivera seized power in Spain by a coup d'etat and established a fascist dictatorship.
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15 Sep 1923
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Kichisaburo Nomura was made the commanding officer of 1st Expeditionary Fleet.
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19 Sep 1923
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Hikokichi Ijuin stepped down as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China.
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24 Sep 1923
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Quintin Brand was appointed the commanding officer of No. 56 Squadron RAF.
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26 Sep 1923
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Hideo Kodama was named the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China.
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26 Sep 1923
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Bavarian Prime Minister Eugen von Knilling declared a state of emergency in Munich (München) and appointed Gustav von Kahr as State Commissioner with dictatorial powers.
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27 Sep 1923
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Joseph Rochefort's son Joseph Rochefort, Jr. was born in California, United States.
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01 Oct 1923
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Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing colony with Charles Coghlan as the first elected premier.
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01 Oct 1923
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Settsu was removed from the Japanese Navy List and was reclassified as a special service vessel attached to the Kure Naval District.
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09 Oct 1923
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Marblehead was launched in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sponsored by the wife of Joseph Evans.
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15 Oct 1923
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Commander Shinichi Oguri was named the acting commanding officer of Tenryu.
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18 Oct 1923
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King George V granted the prefix "Royal", to the British Army Tank Corps, making it the Royal Tank Corps. The title would persist until 1939 when it was altered to the Royal Tank Regiment.
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19 Oct 1923
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Harry Dimoline was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
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27 Oct 1923
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Prince Hiroyasu was named the protocol officer of the Imperial court.
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27 Oct 1923
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Prince Kotohito was made the Protocol Officer.
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27 Oct 1923
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Excursion steamer Greater Buffalo was launched at the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio, United States.
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30 Oct 1923
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S-23 was commissioned into service.
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30 Oct 1923
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Former British Prime Minister Bonar Law died in London, England, United Kingdom from throat cancer.
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01 Nov 1923
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The value of the German Mark decreased to the level that it now cost about 4,000,000,000 Marks to exchange for US$1.
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03 Nov 1923
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Concord was commissioned into service.
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03 Nov 1923
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German Social Democrat Interior Minister Wilhelm Sollmann, Justice Minister Gustav Radbruch and Vice Chancellor Robert Schmidt resigned from the German coalition government, thus bringing about its collapse within weeks.
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04 Nov 1923
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On this German Memorial Day (Volkstrauertag), the Nazi Party planned to begin a national revolution in Munich, Germany, but due to a unexpectedly heavy police presence at the planned parade routes, the action was canceled in the last minute.
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06 Nov 1923
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Vice Admiral Tadatsugu Tajiri was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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08 Nov 1923
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The Nazi Party attempted to seize power in Germany with the Beer Hall Putsch in München, Germany.
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09 Nov 1923
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The Nazi Party's attempt to seize power in Germany, the Beer Hall Putsch, ended ignominiously.
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10 Nov 1923
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Chuichi Nagumo was name an instructor at the Japanese naval war college.
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20 Nov 1923
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S-40 was commissioned into service.
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20 Nov 1923
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Captain Takumi Matsumoto was named the commanding officer of Settsu.
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23 Nov 1923
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The German coalition government collapsed with the departure of the Socials Democrats. Centrist Wilhelm Marx was appointed Chancellor with his predecessor, Gustav Stresemann, as Foreign Minister.
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29 Nov 1923
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Crown Prince Yi Un graduated from the Japanese Army War College and was made the commanding officer of a company in the Japanese 2nd Infantry Regiment.
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01 Dec 1923
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Isoroku Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of captain.
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01 Dec 1923
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Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander.
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01 Dec 1923
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West Virginia was commissioned into service.
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01 Dec 1923
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Nobutake Kondo was promoted to the rank of commander.
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01 Dec 1923
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Shinichi Oguri was promoted to the rank of captain, and he was formally named the commanding officer of Tenryu.
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01 Dec 1923
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Masafumi Arima was assigned to Iwate.
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08 Dec 1923
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history
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Joseph Rochefort's request to the United States Navy Mine Force was denied.
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13 Dec 1923
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S-28 was commissioned into service.
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25 Dec 1923
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In Washington, D.C., during Calvin Coolidge's first Christmas as president, the first electrically_lit Christmas tree appeared in the White House.
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28 Dec 1923
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George Bernard Shaw's play St. Joan premiered at the Garrick theatre, New York, New York, United States.
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