1923 in the United States

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Events from the year 1923 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

Federal Government[]

  • President: Warren G. Harding (R-Ohio) (until August 2), Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts) (starting August 2)
  • Vice President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts) (until August 2), vacant (starting August 2)
  • Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
  • Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts)
  • Congress: 67th (until March 4), 68th (starting March 4)

Events[]

August 2: Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th U.S. President following the death of President Warren G. Harding

January–March[]

  • January 1–7 – The Rosewood massacre, a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town, takes place in Rosewood, Florida.
  • February 5 – United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind: The Supreme Court decides that Bhagat Singh Thind cannot become a naturalized U.S. citizen because, as a Punjabi Sikh, he is not a "white person".
  • February 23 – The American Law Institute is incorporated.
  • March 1 – The USS Connecticut is decommissioned.
  • March 2 – The first issue of Time magazine is published.
  • March 23 – The governor of Oklahoma signs House Bill 197 with the Montgomery amendment outlawing the theory of evolution in public school textbooks purchased by the state, the first anti-Darwinian legislation passed in the U.S.[1]

April–June[]

  • April 4 – Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Sam Warner and Albert Warner founds Warner Bros.
  • April 18 – The first Yankee Stadium opens its doors in the Bronx, New York City.
  • May 9 – Southeastern Michigan receives a record 6 inches (15 cm) of snow after temperatures plummeted from 62 °F (17 °C) to 34 °F (1 °C) degrees between 13:00-18:00 on the previous day.[2]
  • May 15 – Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island officially opened.[3]
  • May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan defies a law requiring publication of its members.

July–September[]

  • July 13 – The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading Hollywoodland).
  • August 2 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States, upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
  • September 3 – Illustrated Daily News first published in Los Angeles by Cornelius Vanderbilt IV.
  • September 4 – The United States Navy's first home-built rigid airship USS Shenandoah makes her first flight at Naval Air Station Lakehurst (New Jersey); she contains most of the world's extracted reserves of helium at this time (named and commissioned October 10).[4]
  • September 8 – Honda Point Disaster: Seven U.S. Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.
  • September 17 – 1923 Berkeley Fire: Billy bob joe, California]] erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.
  • September 18–26 – Newspaper printers strike in New York City.
  • September 29 – First American Track & Field championships for women, in New Jersey

October–December[]

- October 1, Mississippi something Road Signs Act came into effect.

  • October 15 – The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants (baseball), 4 games to 2, to win their first World Series Title.
  • October 16 – Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company.
  • October 19 – War Resisters League organized by Jessie Wallace Hughan.[5]
  • December 10 – Sigma Alpha Kappa is founded at Loyola University New Orleans, making it the first social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the U.S.

Undated[]

  • Soledad C. Chacón takes office as Secretary of State of New Mexico; all subsequent holders of this office through 2011 will also be women.
  • The Moderation League of New York becomes part of the movement for the repeal of Prohibition in the U.S.
  • Rainbow trout introduced into the upper Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park.

Ongoing[]

  • Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
  • U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
  • Prohibition (1919–1933)
  • Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Births[]

  • January 1 – Daniel Gorenstein, mathematician (died 1992)
  • January 16 – Anthony Hecht, poet (died 2004)
  • January 29
    • Jack Burke, Jr., golfer and coach
    • Paddy Chayefsky, writer (died 1981)
  • January 31 – Norman Mailer, writer (died 2007)
  • February 2
    • James Dickey, poet and author (died 1997)
    • Liz Smith, gossip columnist (died 2017)
  • February 13
    • James Abdnor, U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1981 to 1987 (died 2012)
    • Chuck Yeager, pilot (died 2020)
  • February 20 – Helen Murray Free, chemist and educator (died 2021)
  • February 28
    • Jean Carson, actress (died 2005)
    • Charles Durning, actor (died 2012)
  • March 9 – James L. Buckley, judge and U.S. Senator from New York from 1971 to 1977
  • March 10 – Val Logsdon Fitch, nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 2015)
  • March 14 – Diane Arbus, photographer (died 1971)
  • March 27 – Jack O'Neill, businessman (O'Neill surfwear & equipment) (died 2017)
  • April 1
    • Leora Dana, actress (died 1983)
    • Bobby Jordan, actor (died 1965)
  • April 3 – Daniel Hoffman, poet (died 2013)
  • April 13
    • Don Adams, actor and director (died 2005)[6]
    • Stanley Tanger, businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (died 2010)
  • April 23 – Walter Pitts, logician and cognitive psychologist (died 1969)
  • April 25
    • Timothy S. Healy, Jesuit priest and academic administrator (died 1992)
    • Albert King, blues guitarist and singer (died 1992)
  • May 1 – Joseph Heller, novelist (died 1999)
  • May 16 – Merton Miller, economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (died 2000)
  • June 8 – Malcolm Boyd, priest and author (died 2015)
  • June 22 – John Oldham, basketball player (died 2020)
  • July 13 – Ashley Bryan, children's book writer and illustrator (died 2022)
  • July 14 – Robert Zildjian, musical instrument manufacturer (Sabian) (died 2013)
  • July 22
    • Bob Dole, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1969 to 1996, Presidential candidate (died 2021)
    • The Fabulous Moolah, wrestler (died 2007)
  • July 31 – Stephanie Kwolek, polymer chemist (died 2014)
  • August 3 – Jean Hagen, actress (died 1977)[7]
  • August 10
    • Rhonda Fleming, screen actress (died 2020)
    • David H. Rodgers, politician (died 2017)
  • August 20 – Jim Reeves, country singer (died 1964)
  • September 1 – Rocky Marciano, boxer (died 1969)
  • September 3
    • Glen Bell, entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell (died 2010)
    • Mort Walker, cartoonist, creator of Beetle Bailey (died 2018)
  • September 9 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, virologist (died 2008)
  • September 17 – Hank Williams, country musician (died 1953)
  • September 26 – John Ertle Oliver, geophysicist (died 2011)
  • October 4 – Charlton Heston, film actor (died 2008)
  • October 20 – Robert Craft, orchestral conductor (died 2015)
  • October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist (died 1997)
  • November 6 – Robert P. Griffin, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1966 to 1979 (died 2015)
  • November 8 – Jack Kilby, electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 2005)
  • November 9
    • Charles Grier Sellers, historian (died 2021)[8]
    • James Schuyler, poet (died 1991)
  • November 18
    • Ted Stevens, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009 (died 2010)
    • Alan Shepard, astronaut (died 1998)
  • November 23
    • Daniel Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1963 to 1969 (died 2007)
    • Billy Haughton, harness racer and trainer (died 1986)
  • November 26 – Nat Allbright, sports commentator (died 2011)
  • December 10 – Harold Gould, actor (died 2010)
  • December 11
    • Betsy Blair, film actress (died 2009)
    • Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-American businesswoman, co-founder of Coach, Inc. (died 2013)
  • December 12 – Bob Barker, game show host (The Price Is Right)
  • December 13
    • Philip Warren Anderson, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
    • Larry Doby, baseball player (died 2003)
  • December 23 – James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral and vice presidential candidate (died 2005)
  • December 24 – George Patton IV, U.S. Army general (died 2004)
  • December 29 – Dina Merrill, actress, heiress, socialite and philanthropist (died 2017)

Deaths[]

  • January 1 – Willie Keeler, baseball player (born 1872)
  • January 18 – Wallace Reid, actor (born 1891)
  • February 6 – Edward Emerson Barnard, astronomer (born 1857)
  • February 14 – Charles Henry Turner, African American entomologist (born 1867)
  • February 24 – Edward W. Morley, scientist (born 1838)
  • February 26
    • Walter B. Barrows, naturalist (born 1855)
    • George Clement Perkins, U.S. Senator from California from 1893 to 1915 (born 1839)
  • March 3 – Melancthon J. Briggs, lawyer and politician (born 1846)
  • March 6 – Joseph McDermott, actor (born 1878)
  • March 15 – Goat Anderson, baseball player (born 1880)
  • April 6 – Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist and anthropologist (born 1838)
  • April 28 – Knute Nelson, Governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1895 to 1923 (born 1843 in Norway)
  • August 2 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States from 1921 to 1923 (born 1865)
  • August 10 – Laura Redden Searing, deaf poet and journalist (born 1839)
  • October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, painter (born 1854)
  • October 23 – Hannah Johnston Bailey, temperance advocate and suffragist (born 1839)
  • November 11 – Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, biographer (born 1858)
  • December 28 – Frank Hayes, actor (born 1871)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ O'Dell, Larry. "Anti-Evolution Movement". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
  2. ^ "May Snow Storm". National Weather Service. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
  3. ^ "Crowds at Coney To Open Boardwalk". The New York Times. 1923-05-16. Archived from the original on 2019-07-24.
  4. ^ Hayward, John T. (August 1978). "Comment and Discussion". United States Naval Institute Proceedings.
  5. ^ Powers, Roger S. (2012). Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-76482-0.
  6. ^ Martin, Douglas (September 27, 2005). "Don Adams, Television's Maxwell Smart, Dies at 82". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "Jean Hagen". latimes.com. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  8. ^ Charles Sellers, 98, Historian Who Upset the Postwar Consensus, Dies

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