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

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.
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.
March 2 - Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time.
April - End of Irish Civil War
April 23 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport
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.
August 2 - Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th President of the United States (1921 - 1923) dies in office and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929).
August 13 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.
September 1 - An earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing about 140,000 people. See Great Kanto earthquake for detail.
September 4 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American dirigible, the "USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
October 29 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
November 8 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. Policeman and troops crush the attempt the next day.
Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor
Finnish flag carrier Finnair airline started in Aero Oy

Year in topic

Births

January 1 - Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent executed by the Nazis (+ 1944)
January 7 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director
January 5 - Sam Phillips, county music producer
January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (d. 1999)
January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)
January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, French actress
January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress
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 27 - Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophone player (d. 1990)
March 6 - Ed McMahon, television personality
March 6 - Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist (d. 1994)
March 8 - Walter Jens, writer
March 9 - Walter Kohn, physicist, winner 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
March 12 - Wally Schirra, astronaut
March 22 - Marcel Marceau, mime
March 24 - Kermit Schafer, humorist (d. 1979)
March 26 - Bob Elliott, comedian
March 27 - Louis Simpson, poet
March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
April 22 - Bettie Page, pinup model
April 22 - Aaron Spelling, television producer, writer
May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (d. 1999)
May 2 - Patrick Hillery, sixth President of Ireland
May 7 - Anne Baxter, actress (d. 1985)
May 13 - Bea Arthur, actress
May 21 - Ara Parseghian, American football coach
May 27 - Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973
May 28 - György Ligeti, composer
May 31 - Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later Prince Rainer III of Monaco
July 2 - Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poetess, the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1996
September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia
September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
September 22 - Dannie Abse, English poet
October 5 - Glynis Johns, British actress
December 2 - Maria Callas, opera Diva († 1977)
December 14 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
December 23 - James Stockdale, United States Navy admiral
December 25 - Sonia Olschanezky, WW II heorine executed by the Nazis (+ (1944)

Deaths

February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen, physicist, dicoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate
March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
March 27 - Sir James Dewar, chemist
June 9 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen Victoria, aunt of King George V

Nobel Prizes

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