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Stefanos Dragoumis was a judge, writer and the Prime Minister of Greece from January to October 1910. He was the father of Ion Dragoumis.
Stefanos Dragoumis, Greek judge and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1842)
Walther Penck was a geologist and geomorphologist known for his theories on landscape evolution. Penck is noted for criticizing key elements of the Davisian cycle of erosion, concl…
Walther Penck, German geologist and geomorphologist (born 1888)
"Damat" Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha, known simply as Damat Ferid Pasha, was an Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the de facto prime minister of the Ottoma…
Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1853)
Alfred Perry "Bunny" Lucas was an English first-class cricketer from 1874 to 1907, playing for Cambridge University, Surrey, Middlesex and Essex. He also played five Test matches f…
Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (born 1857)
Marcellus Emants was a Dutch novelist whose work is considered one of the few examples of Dutch Naturalism. His writing is seen as a first step towards the renewing force of the Ta…
Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (born 1848)
Andrew Bonar Law was a British Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. He was the first prime minister born outside of Britain or Ir…
Bonar Law, Canadian-English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1858)
André Ernest Paul Lagache was a French racing driver who, along with René Léonard, won the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923.
French drivers André Lagache and René Léonard completed the most laps during the first edition of the sports car race th
Andrés Avelino Cáceres Dorregaray was a Peruvian politician and general who served as the President of Peru, from 1886 to 1890 as the 27th president, and again from 1894 to 1895 as…
Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Peruvian general, President of Peru (born 1836)
The 1923 FA Cup final was an association football match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United on 28 April 1923 at the original Wembley Stadium in London. The showpiece match…
The FA Cup final (crowd and police pictured) between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was held on the opening day of
In June 1923, British settler Jasper Abraham was tried for the murder of African labourer Kitosh in the Kenya Colony. Kitosh had died after a flogging administered by Abraham and h…
Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to re
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 was signed to settle part of the partition of the Ottoman Empire, establishing the boundaries…
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…
Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
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 came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Mandatory Palestine under British…
Roy Oliver Disney was an American entrepreneur. He co-founded with his younger brother Walt what is now the Walt Disney Company in October 1923. Disney also served as the company's…
Roy and Walt Disney (pictured) founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, which eventually grew to…
Seamus Woods commanded a division of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during a period of intense conflict and was a senior leader of the newly formed Irish Free State army.
Seamus Woods leads an Irish Republican Army attack on the headquarters of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast
The Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, shortened to the Young Pioneers, was a youth organization of the Soviet Union for children and adolescents ages 9–14 that existed…
The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established
The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force of Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) f…
The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded
The Portuguese Naval Aviation constituted the air component of the Portuguese Navy, from 1917 to 1957. The Portuguese Air Force maritime patrol units and the Navy's Helicopter Squa…
Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic
The Irish Civil War was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United King…
The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, or the Railway Shopmen's Strike, was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States. Launched on July 1, 1922, by seven of the sixt…
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre and public park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. It was named one of the ten best live music venues in the United States by …
The Hollywood Bowl opens.
The Japanese Communist Party is a major political party in Japan. Founded in 1922, it is the oldest active political party in the country. It had 250,000 members as of January 202…
The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed on 16 April 1922 between Germany and Soviet Russia under which both renounced all territorial and financial claims against each other …
The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.…
The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR