Historical Events in 1923 (Part 2)

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• Sep 14 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
• Sep 15 Governor Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of Ku Klux Klan terror
• Sep 15 Military officer Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator and Prime Minister of Spain after launching a coup d'état
• Sep 17 Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London
• Sep 19 Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig
• Sep 23 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law

• Sep 26 The Commonwealth Conference is held in London, where Britain recognizes the right of the Dominions to make treaties with foreign powers
• Sep 27 Italian troops leave occupied Corfu

• Sep 28 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations
• Sep 28 New York Yankees overwhelm Boston Red Sox 24-4
• Sep 28 Radio Times 1st published
• Sep 29 Steinhart Aquarium opens to public in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California [1]
• Oct 2 British occuping army leaves Constantinople
• Oct 4 Young Stribling ostensibly beats Mike McTigue on points in Columbus, Georgia for world light-heavyweight boxing title; referee Harry Ertle later calls fight a draw, claims coerced by promoters to award fight to Stribling; McTigue retains title

• Oct 6 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
• Oct 6 US Lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
• Oct 6 USSR adopts experimental calendar
• Oct 7 Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
• Oct 10 Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
• Oct 11 German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
• Oct 13 Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
• Oct 15 American pianist Henry Cowell sparks a riot among audience members at Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, Germany - some tried to physically stop his avant-garde performance, while others defended him

• Oct 16 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
• Oct 16 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
• Oct 17 Catholic University of Nijmegen opens in the Netherlands

• Oct 19 Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter

• Oct 23 US patent is issued to American inventor Sebastian Hinton for playground climbing structure popularly known as 'monkey bars' (No, 1471465) [1]
• Oct 24 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship

• Oct 26 Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
• Oct 26 Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
• Oct 29 Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxony
• Oct 29 Gibbs, Grey and Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild" (introducing "The Charleston") opens on Broadway, New York City
• Oct 29 Kemal Atatürk declares Turkey a republic (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
• Oct 29 Mustafa Kemal officially confirms Turkey as a republic (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), now commemorated annually as the Republic Day of Turkey
• Oct 29 Textile strike against lower wages begins in Enschede, Netherlands
• Oct 31 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees F begin at Marble Bar, Australia
• Nov 1 Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
• Nov 2 Bloody street fights in Aachen led to establishment of the ill-fated Rhenish Republic
• Nov 2 Gustav Stresemann's German coalition Government collapses after Social Democrat ministers step down
• Nov 6 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"

• Nov 9 Beer Hall Putsch's second day in Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die and Adolf Hitler flees
• Nov 10 German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
• Nov 11 Eternal flame lit for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
• Nov 12 Dr Hjalmar Schacht is appointed special commissioner to deal with the currency problem in Germany; by November 1924 the currency will have been restored
• Nov 12 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power during "Beer Hall Putsch" coup
• Nov 14 Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.

• Nov 19 The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures
• Nov 20 American inventor Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, adding a caution between 'stop and 'go', an important development in automobile safety [1]
• Nov 20 Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark

• Nov 23 German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD
• Nov 23 Germany's Gustav Stresemann's government falls to the SPD
• Nov 24 Radio Belgium's 1st transmission
• Nov 29 The Dawes Commission, chaired by the American Banker Charles G. Dawes, is set up to look into the German economic situation and make recommendations that the US can accept
• Nov 30 Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms
• Dec 3 First Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington, D.C.)
• Dec 4 WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
• Dec 6 1st US Presidential address broadcast on radio by President Calvin Coolidge
• Dec 8 German-US friendship treaty signed
• Dec 8 Labour/Liberals win British parliament
• Dec 8 Salary & price freeze in Germany
• Dec 10 Polish government of Grabski forms
• Dec 18 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
• Dec 19 King George II of Greece moves in exile to Romania while the National Assembly deliberates over future of government
• Dec 21 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation

• Dec 23 Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
• Dec 25 Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St NYC

• Dec 31 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
• Dec 31 BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID
• Dec 31 Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in New York City

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