January 1923 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established.
• 02 Jan 1923 Ku Klux Klan makes surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood, Florida, USA; 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995).
• 04 Jan 1923 1st broadcast of Barn Dance Show
• 07 Jan 1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
• 08 Jan 1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam
• 09 Jan 1923 Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
• 10 Jan 1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany).
• 11 Jan 1923 Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
• 17 Jan 1923 Belgian Working People Party protests against occupied Ruhrgebied.
• 18 Jan 1923 Elon College's campus in North Carolina is destroyed by a fire.
• 19 Jan 1923 WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
• 23 Jan 1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins
• 24 Jan 1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument, in New Mexico, USA, is established.
• 28 Jan 1923 1st Reichs Party (NSDAP) forms in Munich
• 29 Jan 1923 1st flight of autogiro

Famous Birthday

• Jacqueline Maillan

  French singer and TV comedienne.

• Norman Mailer

  American novelist, journalist, poet, playwright, film maker, philosopher, lover and pugilist, considered a prodigious talent of the 20th...

• Alice Miller (psychologist)
• Santha Rama Rau

  East Indian writer and lecturer, conversant with both cultures and able to interpret the interaction between east and west, commuting easily...

• Valentina Cortese

  Italian actress who starred in over 40 U.S.

• Willem Aantjes

  Dutch political leader (CDA).

• Marguerite Dar Boggia

  American astrologer and mainstay for ISAR for many years, the winner of the ISAR Service Award on 7/17/1989.

• Anne Jeffreys

  North Carolina, United States -- Actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital).

• Geneviève Asse

  French artist, a modern abstract painter, she has exhibited widely.

• Jean Stapleton

  TV Actress.

• Eugénio de Andrade
• Carroll Shelby

  American automotive designer, racing driver and entrepreneur.

• Michel Droit

  French writer; a journalist, a war correspondent and reporter for press, radio and TV, holding editorial positions.

• Edith Custer

  American astrologer, founder and editor of the very popular and unique "Mercury Hour" 1974-1985, a magazine composed of letters from...

• Bernard Gersten

  American theater director.

• Ivor Cutler

  Scottish pianist songwriter and poet (d. 2006).

• Paul Mercey
• Giorgio Tozzi

  American singer who began a career as a biologist until detoured by army service.

• Jean-Jacques Roux
• Walter Miller

  American sci-fi writer and winner of the Hugo award for his novelette "Darfstellar," 1955.

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Famous Deaths

• Wallace Reid

  Actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31.

• King Constantine

  I of Greece (Born 1868).

• Zubeyde Han?m

  Mother of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (Born 1857).

• Katherine Mansfield

  Writer from New Zealand who was first published in 1911 with her novel, "In A German Pension.

• Alexandre Ribot

  French academic and politician Prime Minister of France (d. 1923).

• Max Nordau

  Hungarian physician author and critic co-founded the World Zionist Organization (d. 1923).

• Constantine I

  king of Greece (1913-17, 1920-22), dies at age 54.

• Eligiusz Niewiadomski

  Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (Born 1869).

• Jaroslav Hasek

  Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39.

• Sam Carter

  Black resident of Rosewood Florida, lynched by KKK.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Clyde Doerr & His Orchestra - Suez
2. Van & Schenck - Carolina in the Morning
3. Nora Bayes - Homesick
4. American Quartet - Nellie Kelly I Love You
5. Prince's Orchestra - Nellie Kelly, I Love You