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The original Wembley Stadium, ; originally known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, London, England, best known for hosting important football matches. It st…
Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is an endurance sports car race held annually near the city of Le Mans, France. First run in 1923, it is the oldest active endurance racing event in the wor…
The first 24 Hours of Le Mans is held in France
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of…
Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada. The Crown, along with two chambers, form the bicameral legislature.
The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
The 1923 WAAA Championships were the first national track and field championships for women in the United Kingdom. The tournament was held on 18 August 1923, at the Oxo Sport Groun…
The first British Track and Field championships for women are held in London, Great Britain.
An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power. Aerostats use buoyancy fr…
Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
The Treaty of Lausanne is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–1923 and signed in the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. The tr…
The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and…
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he served from 1921 to 1923 as the 29th vice preside…
U.S. Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° so…
The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the…
Captain in the U.S. Army (USA), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), U.S. Air Force (USAF), and U.S. Space Force (USSF) is a company-grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-3. It ranks ab…
Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting…
The Great Kantō Earthquake was a megathrust earthquake that struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshu at 11:58:32 JST on Saturday, 1 September 1923. It had an ap…
The Great Kantō Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, GE, was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last ye…
Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
The occupation of the Ruhr was the period from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925 when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr region of Germany.
The German government calls off the passive resistance to the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr.
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire concerning the terr…
The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon takes effect.
The Kantō Massacre was a mass murder in the Kantō region of Japan committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. With the explicit and implicit approval of parts o…
Kantō Massacre: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting acts of sabotage in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō…
The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (ICPO–INTERPOL), commonly known as Interpol, is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperatio…
The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in history. On the foggy and moonless night of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers traveling at 20 knots …
Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and statesperson who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked, self-governing colony of the British Empire in what is today the country of Zimbabwe. The colony's territory was initially conquered and adminis…
Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
The 1923 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships were organized by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and served as the national championships in outdoor track and field for the Un…
The First American Track and Field championships for women are held.
The 1923 Imperial Conference met in London in the autumn of 1923, the first attended by the new Irish Free State. While named the Imperial Economic Conference, the principal activi…
The 1923 Imperial Conference opened in London.
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of over 5.3 million residents in its urban center, out of 6 million residen…
Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
The Rentenmark was a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany, after the previously used Papiermark had become almost worth…
The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan – which had been part of the Ottoman Empire for…
The Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.