1923
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Years: | 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 |
[edit] Events
- January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies
- January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel
- January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments
- February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun
- February 22 - Barcelona (Catalonia): Albert Einstein visits the city, invited by the scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa, as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya and conducted by Rafael de Campalans.
- March - Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias.
- March 1 - USS Connecticut decommissioned
- March 2 - Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time
- March 9 - Vladimir 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.
- April - End of Irish Civil War
- April 12 - Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.
- April 23 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport
- April 26 - Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey
- May 23 - Launch of Belgium's SABENA Airlines
- May 27 - Ku Klux Klan defies law requiring publication of its members
- June 9 - Military coup in Bulgaria - prime minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski is ousted (he is killed June 14)
- June 18 - Etna volcano erupts - 60.000 made homeless
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent (d. 1944)
- January 7 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director
- January 5 - Sam Phillips, country music producer (d. 2003)
- January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (d. 1999)
- January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)
- January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, French actress
- January 16 - Anthony Hecht, poet
- January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress
- January 25 - Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize winning scientist
- January 26 - Anne Jeffreys, actress
- January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer (d. 1981)
- January 31 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist
- February 2 - James Dickey, poet, author (d. 1997)
- February 2 - Liz Smith, gossip columnist
- February 9 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964)
- February 11 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
- February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director
- February 13 - Chuck Yeager, pilot
- February 13 - Yfrah Neaman, violinist and teacher
- February 27 - Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophone player (d. 1990)