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Popular Culture 1923

  • Time Magazine is launched


  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney is Released


  • The Ten Commandments directed by Cecil B. DeMille


  • Explosion of recordings of African American musicians including the great Louis Armstrong




What Events Happened in 1923

  • Mount Etna volcano erupts - 60,000 made homeless


  • First Le Mans 24 hour race run


  • King Tutankhamen Burial Chamber Opened


  • The Great Kanto earthquake devastate the Cities of Tokyo and Yokohama leaving over 100,000 fatalities


  • Rosewood, Fla Massacre and town burnt to the ground by members of the Ku Klux Klan


  • First baseball game played at Yankee Stadium


  • Royal Wedding of Albert Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Rowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey


  • Insulin is Introduced for treatment of Diabetes


  • Construction Starts on Sydney Harbour Bridge





Technology 1923

  • The worlds first domestic refrigerator sold in Sweden
  • 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