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  • Munich, Germany
    1923
    BMW

    First successful motorcycle after the failed Helios and Flink

    Munich, Germany
    1923

    Their first successful motorcycle after the failed Helios and Flink, was the "R32" in 1923, though production originally began in 1921




  • Tokyo, Japan
    1923
    Hirohito

    The Rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the army

    Tokyo, Japan
    1923

    In 1923 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the army and Commander in the navy.




  • China
    1923
    Chinese Civil War

    Membership base

    China
    1923

    Communist members were allowed to join the KMT on an individual basis. The CPC itself was still small at the time, having a membership of 300 in 1922 and only 1,500 by 1925. As of 1923, the KMT had 50,000 members.




  • Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
    1923
    Harry S. Truman

    County Court judge

    Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
    1923

    Truman was elected in 1922 as County Court judge of Jackson County's eastern district—Jackson County's three-judge court included judges from the western district (Kansas City), the eastern district (the county outside Kansas City), and a presiding judge elected countywide.




  • Paris, France
    1923
    Marie Curie

    She Wrote a Biography of Her Late Husband

    Paris, France
    1923

    In 1923 she wrote a biography of her late husband, titled Pierre Curie.




  • Turkey
    1923
    Cypriot intercommunal violence

    Foundation of the Republic of Turkey

    Turkey
    1923

    After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, in 1923, the new Turkish government formally recognized Britain's sovereignty over Cyprus. Greek Cypriots believed it was their natural and historic right to unite the island with Greece (enosis), as many of the Aegean and Ionian islands had done following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.




  • Ireland
    1923
    Irish War of Independence

    Irish Civil War Ended

    Ireland
    1923

    Irish Civil War lasted until mid-1923 and cost the lives of many of the leaders of the independence movement, notably the head of the Provisional Government Michael Collins, ex-minister Cathal Brugha, and anti-treaty republicans Harry Boland, Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellows, Liam Lynch and many others: total casualties have never been determined but were perhaps higher than those in the earlier fighting against the British. President Arthur Griffith also died of a cerebral hemorrhage during the conflict.


  • Germany
    1923
    Weimar Republic

    The government defaulted on some payments

    Germany
    1923

    By 1923, the Republic claimed it could no longer afford the reparations payments required by the Versailles Treaty, and the government defaulted on some payments.


  • Moscow, U.S.S.R.
    1923
    Ho Chi Minh

    Quốc (Ho) left Paris for Moscow

    Moscow, U.S.S.R.
    1923

    In 1923, Quốc (Ho) left Paris for Moscow carrying a passport with the name Chen Vang, a Chinese merchant, where he was employed by the Comintern, studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.


  • Cannes, France
    1923
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill spent much of the next six months at the Villa Rêve d'Or

    Cannes, France
    1923

    Churchill spent much of the next six months at the Villa Rêve d'Or near Cannes, where he devoted himself to painting and writing his memoirs. He wrote an autobiographical history of the war, The World Crisis. The first volume was published in April 1923 and the rest over the next ten years.


  • Klaipėda, Lithuania
    Jan, 1923
    League of Nations

    Klaipėda Revolt

    Klaipėda, Lithuania
    Jan, 1923

    The Klaipėda Revolt took place in January 1923 in the Klaipėda Region . The region, located north of the Neman River, was detached from East Prussia, German Empire by the Treaty of Versailles and became a mandate of the League of Nations.


  • U.S.
    1923
    New York Stock Exchange

    Poor's Publishing introduced their "Composite Index"

    U.S.
    1923

    In 1923, Poor's Publishing introduced their "Composite Index", today referred to as the S&P 500, which tracked a small number of companies on the NYSE.


  • U.S.S.R.
    Thursday Jan 4, 1923
    Vladimir Lenin

    Retirement

    U.S.S.R.
    Thursday Jan 4, 1923

    Despite suffering from semi-paralysis, Lenin dictates a series of articles and his political "Testament" to his secretary, finishing on January 4, 1923. The "Testament" describes his fear that the party will destabilize under the leadership of Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, who is rapidly consolidating power as general secretary.


  • Germany
    1923
    Weimar Republic

    French and Belgian occupied the Ruhr region

    Germany
    1923

    French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr region, Germany's most productive industrial region at the time, taking control of most mining and manufacturing companies in January 1923.


  • Cologne, Germany
    1923
    Joseph Goebbels

    Bank clerk in Cologne

    Cologne, Germany
    1923

    The lack of income from his literary works (he wrote two plays in 1923, neither of which sold) forced him to take employment as a caller on the stock exchange and as a bank clerk in Cologne, a job he detested.


  • Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
    Wednesday Jan 24, 1923
    Treaty of Versailles

    American forces were withdrawn from the Rhineland

    Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
    Wednesday Jan 24, 1923

    On 24 January, the American garrison started their withdrawal from the Rhineland, with the final troops leaving in early February.


  • China
    Friday Jan 26, 1923
    Chinese Civil War

    Joint statement by Sun and Soviet representative Adolph Joffe in Shanghai pledged Soviet assistance to China's unification

    China
    Friday Jan 26, 1923

    In 1923, a joint statement by Sun and Soviet representative Adolph Joffe in Shanghai pledged Soviet assistance to China's unification. The Sun-Joffe Manifesto was a declaration of cooperation among the Comintern, KMT and CPC. Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin arrived in China in 1923 to aid in the reorganization and consolidation of the KMT along the lines of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The CPC joined the KMT to form the First United Front.


  • Queens and Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
    1923
    Donald Trump

    E. Trump & Son

    Queens and Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
    1923

    Their (Fred Trump and his mother) company, "E. Trump & Son", founded in 1923, was active in the New York boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, building and selling thousands of houses, barracks, and apartments.


  • Belfast, Northern Ireland
    Feb, 1923
    Irish War of Independence

    British were detaining 263 men on Argenta, which was moored in Belfast Lough

    Belfast, Northern Ireland
    Feb, 1923

    By February 1923, under the 1922 Special Powers Act the British were detaining 263 men on Argenta, which was moored in Belfast Lough. This was supplemented with internment at other land based sites such as Larne workhouse, Belfast Prison and Derry Gaol. Together, both the ship and the workhouse alone held 542 men without trial at the highest internment population level during June 1923.


  • Spain
    1923
    Spanish Civil War

    Military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera

    Spain
    1923

    In 1923, a military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power; as a result, Spain transitioned to government by military dictatorship.


  • Germany
    1923
    Weimar Republic

    Gustav Stresemann was appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Germany
    1923

    Gustav Stresemann was Reichskanzler for 100 days in 1923, and served as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929, a period of relative stability for the Weimar Republic, known in Germany as Goldene Zwanziger ("Golden Twenties").


  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Apr 5, 1923
    Louis Armstrong

    His first studio recordings were with Oliver for Gennett Records on April 5–6, 1923.

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Apr 5, 1923

    His first studio recordings were with Oliver for Gennett Records on April 5–6, 1923.


  • U.S.
    May, 1923
    Marcus Garvey

    The trial finally came to court

    U.S.
    May, 1923

    Having been postponed at least three times, in May 1923, the trial finally came to court, with Garvey and three other defendants accused of mail fraud. The judge overseeing the proceedings was Julian Mack, although Garvey disliked his selection on the grounds that he thought Mack an NAACP sympathizer.


  • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1923
    Mao Zedong

    The Third Congress of the Communist Party

    Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1923

    At the Third Congress of the Communist Party in Shanghai in June 1923, the delegates reaffirmed their commitment to working with the KMT. Supporting this position, Mao was elected to the Party Committee, taking up residence in Shanghai.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Monday Jun 18, 1923
    Marcus Garvey

    The jurors found Garvey himself guilty

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Monday Jun 18, 1923

    On 18 June, the jurors retired to deliberate on the verdict, returning after ten hours. They found Garvey himself guilty, but his three co-defendants not guilty. Garvey was furious with the verdict, shouting abuse in the courtroom and calling both the judge and district attorney "damned dirty Jews". Imprisoned in The Tombs jail while awaiting sentencing, he continued to blame a Jewish cabal for the verdict; in contrast, prior to this he had never expressed anti-semitic sentiment and was supportive of Zionism.


  • U.S.
    1923
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    The circulation of The Crisis had declined to 60,000

    U.S.
    1923

    When Du Bois sailed for Europe in 1923 for the third Pan-African Congress, the circulation of The Crisis had declined to 60,000 from its World War I high of 100,000, but it remained the preeminent periodical of the civil rights movement.


  • U.S.
    1923
    Marcus Garvey

    Du Bois described Garvey as "a little fat black man"

    U.S.
    1923

    Their relationship became acrimonious; in 1923, Du Bois described Garvey as "a little fat black man, ugly but with intelligent eyes and big head".


  • Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Jul, 1923
    Walt Disney

    Moving To Hollywood

    Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Jul, 1923

    Disney moved to Hollywood in July 1923. Although New York was the center of the cartoon industry, he was attracted to Los Angeles because his brother Roy was convalescing from tuberculosis there, and he hoped to become a live-action film director.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1923
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla moved to Hotel Pennsylvania

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1923

    Tesla's unpaid bills, as well as complaints about the mess made by pigeons, led to his eviction from the St. Regis in 1923, and moved to Hotel Pennsylvania.


  • Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
    Friday Jul 20, 1923
    Mexican Revolution

    Villa's Assassination

    Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
    Friday Jul 20, 1923

    Villa was assassinated in July 1923.


  • Munich, Germany
    1923
    Heinrich Himmler

    Joining The Nazi Party

    Munich, Germany
    1923

    Himmler joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in August 1923, receiving Party number 14303. As a member of Röhm's paramilitary unit, Himmler was involved in the Beer Hall Putsch—an unsuccessful attempt by Hitler and the NSDAP to seize power in Munich. This event would set Himmler on a life of politics. He was questioned by the police about his role in the putsch but was not charged because of insufficient evidence. However, he lost his job, was unable to find employment as an agronomist, and had to move in with his parents in Munich. Frustrated by these failures, he became ever more irritable, aggressive, and opinionated, alienating both friends and family members.


  • Wiszniew, Poland (now Vishnyeva, Belarus)
    Thursday Aug 2, 1923
    Shimon Peres

    Birth

    Wiszniew, Poland (now Vishnyeva, Belarus)
    Thursday Aug 2, 1923

    Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski, on 2 August 1923, in Wiszniew, Poland (now Vishnyeva, Belarus).


  • Wiemar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Monday Aug 13, 1923
    Gustav Stresemann

    Becoming Chancellor and Foreign Minister

    Wiemar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Monday Aug 13, 1923

    On 13 August 1923, Stresemann was appointed Chancellor and Foreign Minister of a grand coalition government in the so-called year of crises (1923). In social policy, a new system of binding arbitration was introduced in October 1923 in which an outside arbitrator had the final say in industrial disputes.


  • Yucatán, Mexico
    1923
    Chichen Itza

    Excavation and restoration of Chichen Itza

    Yucatán, Mexico
    1923

    In 1923, the Mexican government awarded the Carnegie Institution a 10-year permit (later extended another 10 years) to allow U.S. archaeologists to conduct extensive excavation and restoration of Chichen Itza. Carnegie researchers excavated and restored the Temple of Warriors and the Caracol, among other major buildings. At the same time, the Mexican government excavated and restored El Castillo (Temple of Kukulcan) and the Great Ball Court.


  • Cologne, Germany
    Aug, 1923
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels was dismissed from the bank

    Cologne, Germany
    Aug, 1923

    Goebbels was dismissed from the bank in August 1923 and returned to Rheydt.


  • Japan
    Tuesday Sep 11, 1923
    02:58:00 AM
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1923 Great Kantō Earthquake

    Japan
    Tuesday Sep 11, 1923
    02:58:00 AM

    The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震 Kantō dai-jishin) struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:44 JST (02:58:44 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. Estimated casualties totaled about 142,800 deaths, including about 40,000 who went missing and were presumed dead.


  • Madrid, Spain
    1923
    Severo Ochoa

    Joining University of Madrid

    Madrid, Spain
    1923

    In 1923, he went to the University of Madrid Medical School, where he hoped to work with Cajal, but Cajal retired. He studied with father Pedro Arrupe, and Juan Negrín was his teacher.


  • Edinburgh, Scotland
    1923
    Albrecht Kossel

    The Honorary Degree

    Edinburgh, Scotland
    1923

    In 1923, Kossel was honored by being named Germany's representative to the Eleventh Physiological Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he appeared before the assembled scientists, they gave him an ovation that lasted several minutes. At the congress, he was conferred an honorary degree by the University of Edinburgh.


  • U.S.
    Sep, 1923
    Marcus Garvey

    Judge Martin Manton awarded Garvey bail for $15,000

    U.S.
    Sep, 1923

    In September, Judge Martin Manton awarded Garvey bail for $15,000—which was duly raised by UNIA—while he appealed his conviction. Again a free man, he toured the U.S., giving a lecture at the Tuskegee Institute. In speeches given during this tour he further emphasized the need for racial segregation through migration to Africa, calling the United States "a white man's country".


  • Wiemar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Wednesday Sep 26, 1923
    Gustav Stresemann

    The passive resistance against the Occupation

    Wiemar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Wednesday Sep 26, 1923

    On the 26 September 1923, Stresemann announced the end to the passive resistance against the Occupation of the Ruhr by the French and Belgians, in tandem with an Article 48 (of the Weimar Constitution) state of emergency proclamation by President Ebert that lasted until February 1924.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1923
    Bank of America

    Bank of America name first appeared

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1923

    The Bank of America name first appeared in 1923, with the formation of Bank of America, Los Angeles.


  • 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Oct 16, 1923
    Walt Disney

    Founding the Disney Brothers Studio‍

    500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Oct 16, 1923

    Disney and his brother Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studio‍—‌which later became The Walt Disney Company‍—‌to produce the films; they persuaded Davis and her family to relocate to Hollywood to continue production, with Davis on contract at $100 a month.In July 1924, Disney also hired Iwerks, persuading him to relocate to Hollywood from Kansas City.


  • Liberia
    1923
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Envoy Extraordinary

    Liberia
    1923

    President Coolidge designated Du Bois an "Envoy Extraordinary" to Liberia and – after the third congress concluded – Du Bois rode a German freighter from the Canary Islands to Africa, visiting Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal.


  • Spain
    Monday Oct 22, 1923
    Francisco Franco

    Marriage

    Spain
    Monday Oct 22, 1923

    On 22 October 1923, Franco married María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdès.


  • Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Monday Oct 29, 1923
    Gustav Stresemann

    Removing SPD/KPD governments

    Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Monday Oct 29, 1923

    In October 1923, the Stresemann government used Article 48 to replace the legally elected SPD-Communist coalition government of Saxony on 29 October, and that of Thuringia on 6 November, by commissioners. By this time, Stresemann was convinced that accepting the republic and reaching an understanding with the Allies on the reparations issue was the only way for Germany to gain the breathing room it needed to rebuild its battered economy.


  • Turkey
    Monday Oct 29, 1923
    Ottoman Empire

    Republic of Turkey was established

    Turkey
    Monday Oct 29, 1923

    The Republic of Turkey was established in its place on 29 October 1923, in the new capital city of Ankara.


  • Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Nov, 1923
    Gustav Stresemann

    Hyperinflation and a new currency

    Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Nov, 1923

    Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic would reach its peak in November 1923. Stresemann introduced a new currency, the Rentenmark, to end hyperinflation. He also persuaded the French to pull back from the Ruhr in return for a promise that reparations payments would resume. That was part of his larger strategy of "fulfillment".


  • Munich, Germany
    Thursday Nov 8, 1923
    Adolf Hitler

    Bürgerbräukeller

    Munich, Germany
    Thursday Nov 8, 1923

    On 8 November 1923 Hitler and the SA stormed a public meeting of 3,000 people organised by Kahr in the Bürgerbräukeller, a beer hall in Munich.


  • Munich, Germany
    Thursday Nov 8, 1923
    Joseph Goebbels

    Hitler's trial for treason began in the wake of his failed attempt to seize power

    Munich, Germany
    Thursday Nov 8, 1923

    In February 1924, Hitler's trial for treason began in the wake of his failed attempt to seize power in the Beer Hall Putsch of 8–9 November 1923.


  • Ōdate, Akita Prefecture, Japan
    Saturday Nov 10, 1923
    Hachikō

    Birth

    Ōdate, Akita Prefecture, Japan
    Saturday Nov 10, 1923

    Hachiko, a golden brown Akita, was born on November 10, 1923, at a farm located in Ōdate, Akita Prefecture, Japan.


  • Germany
    Sunday Nov 11, 1923
    Adolf Hitler

    Arrested

    Germany
    Sunday Nov 11, 1923

    He was depressed but calm when arrested on 11 November 1923 for high treason.


  • Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Nov, 1923
    Gustav Stresemann

    Stresemann's cabinet resignation

    Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Nov, 1923

    In early November 1923, partly because of the reaction to the overthrowing of the SPD/KPD governments in Saxony and Thuringia, the Social Democrats withdrew from his reshuffled government and after a motion of confidence was voted down on 23 November 1923 Stresemann and his cabinet resigned.


  • Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Friday Nov 30, 1923
    Gustav Stresemann

    Assuming the position as Foreign Minister

    Weimar Republic (Present Day Germany)
    Friday Nov 30, 1923

    Stresemann remained as Foreign Minister in the government of his successor, Centrist Wilhelm Marx. He remained foreign minister for the rest of his life in eight successive governments ranging from the centre-right to the centre-left.


  • United kingdom
    Thursday Dec 6, 1923
    Winston Churchill

    1923 United Kingdom general election

    United kingdom
    Thursday Dec 6, 1923

    After the 1923 general election was called, seven Liberal associations asked Churchill to stand as their candidate, and he selected Leicester West, but he did not win the seat. A Labour government led by Ramsay MacDonald took power. Churchill had hoped they would be defeated by a Conservative-Liberal coalition. He strongly opposed the MacDonald government's decision to loan money to Soviet Russia and feared the signing of an Anglo-Soviet Treaty.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1923
    Mother's Day

    Protesting "Philadelphia"

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1923

    Jarvis protested this idea (the companies had misinterpreted and exploited the idea of Mother's Day) at a candy makers' convention in Philadelphia in 1923.


  • Czech Republic
    1923
    Mother's Day

    Mother's Day (Czech Republic)

    Czech Republic
    1923

    In the Czech Republic, Mother's Day is celebrated every second Sunday in May. It started in former Czechoslovakia in 1923.


  • Greece
    1923
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini sent Italian forces to invade Corfu

    Greece
    1923

    In 1923, Mussolini sent Italian forces to invade Corfu during the Corfu incident. In the end, the League of Nations proved powerless, and Greece was forced to comply with Italian demands.


  • Rheydt, Germany
    Dec, 1923
    Joseph Goebbels

    Diary entries of mid-December 1923 forward show Goebbels was moving towards the Völkisch nationalist movement

    Rheydt, Germany
    Dec, 1923

    During this period, he read avidly and was influenced by the works of Oswald Spengler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany. He also began to study the "social question" and read the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, August Bebel, and Gustav Noske. According to German historian Peter Longerich, Goebbels's diary entries from late 1923 to early 1924 reflected the writings of a man who was isolated, preoccupied with "religious-philosophical" issues, and lacked a sense of direction. Diary entries of mid-December 1923 forward show Goebbels was moving towards the Völkisch nationalist movement.


  • Berlin, Germany
    1923
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels had a lack of income from his literary works

    Berlin, Germany
    1923

    He wrote two plays in 1923, neither of which sold. which caused a lack of income from his literary works.


  • Germany
    1923
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels began his diaries

    Germany
    1923

    Goebbels continued for several years to try to become a published author. His diaries, which he began in 1923 and continued for the rest of his life, provided an outlet for his desire to write.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Thursday Dec 27, 1923
    Hirohito

    Daisuke Namba attempted to assassinate Hirohito

    Tokyo, Japan
    Thursday Dec 27, 1923

    On 27 December 1923, Daisuke Namba attempted to assassinate Hirohito in the Toranomon Incident but his attempt failed. During interrogation, he claimed to be a communist and was executed, but some have suggested that he was in contact with the Nagacho faction in the Army.


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