July 1923 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1923 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF New York and WMAF Massachusetts)
• 03 Jul 1923 Harbor strike in Hull / Grimsby / Cardiff / Bristol over to London
• 04 Jul 1923 Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 06 Jul 1923 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
• 07 Jul 1923 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
• 08 Jul 1923 Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen / Oostland
• 10 Jul 1923 All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy.
• 11 Jul 1923 Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
• 13 Jul 1923 Draft law passes
• 15 Jul 1923 27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood Country Club - New York
• 17 Jul 1923 Carl Mays gives up 13 runs and 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Cleveland Indians.
• 19 Jul 1923 WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
• 21 Jul 1923 Phillies score 12 in 6th and beat Cubs 17-4
• 22 Jul 1923 Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000 in Major League Baseball.
• 24 Jul 1923 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne.
• 25 Jul 1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
• 29 Jul 1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
• 30 Jul 1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
• 31 Jul 1923 Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University

Famous Birthday

• Maria Pacôme

  French actress and playwright.

• Wislawa Szymborska

  Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

• Wojciech Jaruzelski

  Retired Polish military officer and communist politician.

• Estelle Getty

  American actress (d. 2008).

• Madame Claude
• Charles Hernu

  French Minister of Defense 1981-1985 who ordered the sabotage of the Greenpeace ship in which one person was killed.

• Alexandre Astruc

  French film director, novelist, literary and film critic.

• Bob Dole

  American politician; U.S.

• Eugène Dodeigne
• Mukesh
• Primo Nebiolo

  Italian President of the FIDAL as well as the Olympic Games Association.

• Ernst Issberner-Haldane
• Roland Casenave

  French ballet master and director.

• Louise Conte

  French actress, a member of the Comédie-Française, who died on 19 October 1995, aged 72, in Château-Thierry, Aisne, France.

• Michel Conil-Lacoste
• Dale Robertson

  American actor and singer (d. 2013).

• Charles Emerson

  American professional astrologer for 25 years and a founding father of NCGR.

• Wolfgang Thomassen

  German lyricist, author and pro astrologer, an astrological lecturer since 1975.

• Oreste Kirkop

  Maltese tenor and actor (Born 1923).

• Claude Luter

  French jazz clarinetist who doubled on soprano saxophone.

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Famous Deaths

• Pancho Villa [Doroteo Arango]

  Mexican rebel, murdered at 55.

• Louis M A Couperus

  Poet / writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60.

• Florimond Fonteyne

  Flemish priest / politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67.

• Louis Ganne

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Pancho Villa

  Mexican bandito chieftain who sought to control Mexico in 1910 and again in 1914 during revolutionary upheavals.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Nora Bayes - Dearest
2. Ray Miller & His Orchestra - Bambalina
3. Al Jolson - Coal Black Mammy
4. Bessie Smith - Gulf Coast Blues
5. Benson Orchestra of Chicago - Trot Along