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Popular Culture 1923

U.S.
  • Time Magazine is launched
U.S.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame , starring Lon Chaney is Released
U.S.
  • Women's One Piece Swimming Suits Begin to be worn.
U.S.
  • The Ten Commandments directed by Cecil B. DeMille
U.S.
  • The Explosion of recordings of African American musicians including the great Louis Armstrong





What News Events Happened in 1923

Sicily
  • Mount Etna volcano erupts on June 19th - 60,000 made homeless
France
  • First Le Mans 24 hour race run in 1923 in France
Egypt
  • King Tutankhamun Burial Chamber Opened
U.S.
  • Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president following the death of President Warren Harding
Japan
  • The Great Kanto earthquake devastate the Cities of Tokyo and Yokohama on September 1st leaving over 100,000 fatalities
U.S.
  • Rosewood , Fla Massacre and town burnt to the ground by members of the Ku Klux Klan
U.S.
  • Series of Tornado's strike Iowa and Nebraska killing 20
U.S.
  • First baseball game played at Yankee Stadium
UK
  • Royal Wedding of Albert Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Rowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey
Scotland
  • Colliery disaster when 70 miners are drowned when mine wall caves in
Canada
  • Insulin is Introduced for treatment of Diabetes
Australia
  • Construction Starts on Sydney Harbour Bridge
Germany
  • Adolf Hitler leads the Nazi Party in failed coup d'état attempt in Germany





Technology

Sweden
  • The worlds first domestic refrigerator sold in Sweden
U.S.
  • The worlds first portable radio is developed in the US

Inventions Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Television Scotland by John Logie Baird
Hearing Aid England
Ultracentrifuge Sweden by The Suedberg - separates proteins




Major World Political Leaders

Australia Prime Minister Billy Hughes Till 9 February
Australia Prime Minister Stanley Bruce From 9 February

Brazil President Artur Bernardes

Canada Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

Italy Prime Minister Benito Mussolini

Japan Prime Minister Tomosaburō Katō Till 24 August
Japan Prime MinisterGonbee Yamamoto From 2 September

Mexico President Álvaro Obregón

Russia / Soviet Union
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Lenin

South Africa Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts

United States President Warren G. Harding Till August 2
United States President Calvin Coolidge From August 2

United Kingdom Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law Till 20 May
United Kingdom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin From 23 May

Political Elections


British General Election 1923 Stanley Baldwin ( Conservative ) defeats Ramsay MacDonald ( Labour ) and H. H. Asquith ( Liberal )


The Information above is taken from our new page that gives world leaders from 1920 to current.

Political World Leaders From 1920 To Current