March 1923 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied, killing railroad striker.
• 02 Mar 1923 Time magazine debuts
• 03 Mar 1923 US Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague.
• 05 Mar 1923 1st old age pension plans in US established by Montana and Nevada
• 09 Mar 1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
• 13 Mar 1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City, New York).
• 14 Mar 1923 President Warren G Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes
• 15 Mar 1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
• 20 Mar 1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent.
• 21 Mar 1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition.
• 22 Mar 1923 The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
• 23 Mar 1923 Frank Silver and Irving Conn release Yes, We Have No Bananas
• 24 Mar 1923 Greece becomes a republic.
• 25 Mar 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy.
• 26 Mar 1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), three games to one.
• 28 Mar 1923 ''Regia Aeronautica'', the air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.
• 30 Mar 1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates.
• 31 Mar 1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL) in two games.

Famous Birthday

• Diane Arbus

  American photographer.

• Marcel Marceau

  French pantomime artist, actor, author, and creator of the internationally acclaimed white-faced clown "Bip," Marceau was awarded two Emmys,...

• André Courrèges

  French fashion designer with the most influential impact on his field since Dior's "New Look.

• Ed McMahon

  American comedian game show host and announcer (d. 2009).

• François Renaud
• Patrick Moore

  British astronomer who has been on TV since the late 1950's.

• Wes Montgomery

  American guitarist and songwriter (Montgomery Brothers) (d. 1968).

• Jacques Denoël
• Robert Vigouroux
• Roddy MacMillan
• Roger Boom

  American physicist, the creator of the first cryogenic storage unit for a power company in 1989; the unit cost $14-$17 million.

• Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
• Walter Schirra

  American astronaut who flew on Mercury 8 in 1962, making six orbits of the Earth; pilot of Gemini 6 in the first outer space rendezvous...

• James Barber

  British-Canadian cookbook author and host of Urban Peasant, a CBC cooking show.

• Rita Quigley
• Don Abney
• Eiji Funakoshi
• Mario Schimberni

  Italian economist and financier.

• Kenneth Franklin

  American scientist, and educator and chief astronomer at Hayden Planetarium in New York City.

• Kleggie Hermsen
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Famous Deaths

• Sarah Bernhardt [Henriette]

  Actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77.

• Sir James Dewar

  Scottish chemist (Born 1842).

• Johannes S van der Waals

  Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1910), dies at age 85.

• Krisjanis Barons

  Latvian writer (Born 1835).

• Hovhannes Tumanyan

  Armenian-Russian poet and author (d. 1923).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Billy Murray - You Tell Her - I Stutter
2. Nora Bayes - Lovin' Sam (Sheik of Alabam')
3. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell - Carry Me Back to My Carolina Home
4. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Journey's End
5. Al Jolson - Who Cares?