What Happened in 1923

Agatha Christie publishes The Murder on the Links

The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1923 and in... Read more

William Butler Yeats is Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives... Read more

Theo van Doesburg Writes Brochure on Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily... Read more

Imperial Hotel Completed

Tokyo's Imperial Hotel was the best-known of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings in Japan. The original Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was built in 1890. To... Read more

Hollywood Sign Built

The Hollywood Sign is a famous landmark in the Hollywood Hills area of Mount Lee, Santa Monica Mountains, in Los Angeles, California, spelling out... Read more

Fritz Bruening Performs the First Sympathectomy Operation for Hypertension

The vasoconstrictor and cardioaccelerator properties of the sympathetic nervous system had long been known, but it was Kraus who urged the surgeon... Read more

Babe Ruth wins AL MVP

The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) award given to one outstanding player in each... Read more

Al Capone moves his gang's headquarters to Cicero, Illinois

After the 1923 election of reform mayor William Emmett Dever, Chicago's city government began to put pressure on the gangster elements inside the... Read more

Norman Mailer is Born

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and... Read more

"The Pilgrim" (film) is Released

The Pilgrim is a 1923 American silent film made by Charlie Chaplin for the First National Film Company, starring Chaplin and Edna Purviance. The... Read more

Ottawa Senators win Stanley Cup

The 1923 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the NHL champion Ottawa Senators and the WCHL champion Edmonton Eskimos. The previous WCHL-PCHA playoff... Read more

Joseph Heller is Born

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential... Read more

Charles Lindbergh's First Solo Flight

Lindbergh's first solo flight did not come until May 1923 at Souther Field in Americus, Georgia, a former Army flight training field to which he... Read more

Charles Lindbergh Crashes Plane

Lindbergh damaged his "Jenny" on several occasions over the summer, usually by breaking the prop on landing. His most serious accident came when he... Read more

Calvin Coolidge Takes The Presidential Oath

Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath of office on August 3, 1923, after the unexpected death in office of President Warren Harding. The new... Read more

Great Kantō Earthquake

On September 1, 1923, just before noon, an earthquake of magnitude 8.3 occurred near the densely populated, modern industrial cities of Tokyo and... Read more

Imperial Hotel Survives Earthquake

The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake struck the Kantō plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58:44 am JST on September 1, 1923. Varied... Read more

Honda Point Disaster

The Navy's greatest navigational tragedy took place in September 1923 at an isolated California coastal headland locally known as Honda Point.... Read more

"A Woman of Paris" (film) is Released

A Woman of Paris is a feature-length silent film that debuted in 1923. The film, an atypical drama film for its creator, was written, directed,... Read more

John James Richard Macleod and Frederick Grant Banting are Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the Discovery of Insulin

Determined to investigate this possibility, Banting discussed it with various people, among whom was J.J.R. Macleod, Professor of Physiology at the... Read more

1923 World Series

In the 1923 World Series, the New York Yankees beat the New York Giants in six games. This would be the first of the Yankees' 27 World Series... Read more

The Republic of Turkey Officially Proclaimed

General Mustafa Kemal, who had repelled the British at Gallipoli in 1915 and had just recently done likewise to invading Greeks, now planned a... Read more

The Beer Hall Putsch

A series of financial events unfolded in the years 1921 though 1923 that would propel the Nazis to new heights of daring and would even prompt... Read more

Wright Marries Miriam Noel

Immediately after the tragic death of Mamah Cheney on August 15, 1914, Miriam Noel sent condolences to Wright. Within weeks Wright became involved... Read more

Gleno's Dam Collapse

On December the 1st, 1923, the Gleno dam, located in the Scalve valley (Lombardy), collapsed. The dam, a multiple arches structure, was partially... Read more