Notable Historical Events - 1923
1923 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established |
Jan 1 |
Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR. |
Jan 2 |
Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995) |
Jan 4 |
1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Fort Worth Texas) |
Jan 4 |
Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin |
Jan 7 |
Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan |
Jan 8 |
Typography strike in Amsterdam |
Jan 9 |
Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain |
Jan 10 |
Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany) |
Jan 10 |
Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel |
Jan 11 |
1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters) |
Jan 11 |
French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations |
Jan 17 |
Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied |
Jan 17 |
Origin of Brown lunation numbers |
Jan 18 |
1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies |
Jan 19 |
WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions |
Jan 23 |
Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th) |
Jan 24 |
Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established |
Jan 25 |
NVV donates 100,000 gulden to mine workers of Ruhrgebied |
Jan 28 |
1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich |
Jan 28 |
Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent |
Jan 28 |
NSDAP 1st election in Munich |
Jan 29 |
1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain) |
Feb 1 |
Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel |
Feb 1 |
Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini |
Feb 1 |
Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London |
Feb 2 |
Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio |
Feb 2 |
US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries |
Feb 3 |
The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University. |
Feb 5 |
General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar |
Feb 5 |
Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy |
Feb 8 |
Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120 |
Feb 8 |
German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily |
Feb 9 |
Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms |
Feb 10 |
Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company |
Feb 10 |
Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in NYC |
Feb 10 |
SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of the Ruhr |
Feb 13 |
1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes |
Feb 16 |
Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory |
Feb 16 |
Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb and finds the sarcophagus |
Feb 16 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
Feb 16 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
Feb 17 |
Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals) |
Feb 18 |
Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages |
Feb 19 |
Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres |
Feb 19 |
Philip Barry's "You & I," premieres in NYC |
Feb 20 |
Christy Mathewson becomes pres of Boston Braves |
Feb 21 |
Andre Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London |
Feb 22 |
1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California) |
Feb 22 |
Transcontinental airmail service begins |
Feb 23 |
German Republic day with laws against worker |
Feb 23 |
Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5% |
Feb 24 |
Flying Scotsman goes into service |
Feb 24 |
Mass arrests in US of mafia |
Feb 25 |
Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark |
Feb 26 |
Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts) |
Feb 28 |
Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands |
Mar 1 |
Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker |
Mar 3 |
Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of US House of Representatives) |
Mar 3 |
US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague |
Mar 4 |
Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) |
Mar 5 |
Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws |
Mar 6 |
Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms |
Mar 9 |
Amsterdam taxi strike ended |
Mar 9 |
Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine" premieres in NYC |
Mar 9 |
NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2 |
Mar 13 |
Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC) |
Mar 14 |
Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicia in Poland |
Mar 14 |
German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party) |
Mar 14 |
Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes |
Mar 15 |
Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke |
Mar 16 |
Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche" premieres in Vienna |
Mar 20 |
Bavarian minister of interior refuses to forbid Nazi Sturm Abteilung |
Mar 20 |
Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent |
Mar 21 |
US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition |
Mar 22 |
The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt. |
Mar 23 |
Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas" |
Mar 25 |
British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy |
Mar 26 |
Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1 |
Mar 30 |
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates |
Mar 31 |
1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs |
Mar 31 |
French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die |
Mar 31 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edm Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games |
Apr 3 |
2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary |
Apr 5 |
Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production |
Apr 6 |
The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia. |
Apr 7 |
1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney |
Apr 7 |
Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party |
Apr 9 |
Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman" premieres in Dublin |
Apr 10 |
Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin |
Apr 13 |
Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships |
Apr 14 |
Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters |
Apr 15 |
1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC) |
Apr 15 |
Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics |
Apr 17 |
Longest NL opening game, Phillies & Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14 |
Apr 18 |
74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium |
Apr 18 |
Poland annexes Central Lithuania |
Apr 19 |
27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:23:37.4 |
Apr 19 |
New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers |
Apr 23 |
Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter. |
Apr 24 |
General harbor strike begins in NYC |
Apr 28 |
Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup) |
May 2 |
Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0 |
May 3 |
1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed |
May 4 |
Bloody street battles between nazis, socialist & police in Vienna |
May 4 |
NY state revokes Prohibition law |
May 7 |
Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad |
May 8 |
Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* v Somerset at Bath |
May 11 |
10 HRs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cards |
May 12 |
49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6 |
May 13 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours) |
May 15 |
Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms |
May 17 |
Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC) |
May 19 |
49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4 |
May 19 |
KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies |
May 20 |
Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK |
May 22 |
Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier |
May 23 |
Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline: first flight from Brussels to Lympne, England |
May 25 |
Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader |
May 26 |
1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run |
May 26 |
Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg |
May 28 |
Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere |
May 28 |
US unemployment has nearly ended |
May 30 |
Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Tommy Milton wins in 5:31:19.618 (145.718 km/h) |
May 31 |
China & USSR exchange diplomats |
May 31 |
The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President. |
Jun 1 |
NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning |
Jun 6 |
Gangster Albert Anastasia is convicted of illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years in prison |
Jun 9 |
55th Belmont: Earl Sande riding Zev wins in 2:19 |
Jun 9 |
Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans |
Jun 9 |
Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown |
Jun 12 |
Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC |
Jun 14 |
Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane) |
Jun 15 |
Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post & railroad strike |
Jun 15 |
58th British Golf Open: Arthur Havers shoots a 295 at Troon Golf Club |
Jun 16 |
Sun Yat Sen founds military academy |
Jun 19 |
Comic Strip "Moon Mullins" debuts |
Jun 19 |
Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war |
Jun 21 |
Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud |
Jun 24 |
Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied |
Jun 27 |
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane |
Jun 28 |
Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th |
Jun 28 |
Queen Wilhelmina & Prince Henry of the Netherlands state visit to London |
Jun 30 |
New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica |
Jul 1 |
1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF NY & WMAF Mass) |
Jul 3 |
Dockers' strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London |
Jul 4 |
Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jul 6 |
36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (6-2 6-2) |
Jul 6 |
Rail crash on New Zealand's main trunk line; 17 killed and 28 injured |
Jul 7 |
43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61) |
Jul 7 |
Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning |
Jul 7 |
University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne) |
Jul 8 |
Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) |
Jul 8 |
Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland |
Jul 10 |
2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia) |
Jul 10 |
All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy |
Jul 11 |
Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M |
Jul 13 |
Draft law passes |
Jul 13 |
The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. |
Jul 15 |
27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in NY |
Jul 15 |
Italian parliament accepts new constitution |
Jul 17 |
Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians |
Jul 18 |
British House of Lords accepts new divorce law |
Jul 19 |
WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions |
Jul 20 |
Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2 |
Jul 21 |
Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4 |
Jul 22 |
Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508) |
Jul 24 |
Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne |
Jul 25 |
German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1 |
Jul 29 |
Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin |
Jul 29 |
KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany |
Jul 30 |
New Zealand claims Ross Dependency |
Jul 31 |
Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University |
Aug 3 |
Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding |
Aug 3 |
VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of President Warren G. Harding |
Aug 5 |
1st American to swim English Channel (Henry Sullivan) |
Aug 9 |
NY State Golf Association formed |
Aug 11 |
Dutch Premier de Geer resigns |
Aug 12 |
Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances |
Aug 12 |
Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward |
Aug 13 |
Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of German coalition government |
Aug 13 |
Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja as president |
Aug 13 |
US Steel Corp initiates 8-hour work day |
Aug 15 |
Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State |
Aug 15 |
Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917 |
Aug 18 |
37th US Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Mallory (6-2 6-1) |
Aug 20 |
London dock strike ends |
Aug 22 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4) |
Aug 23 |
Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours. |
Aug 24 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2) |
Aug 31 |
League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German) |
Aug 31 |
Mussolini's troops occupy Corfu |
Sep 1 |
18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1), for their 4th straight Davis Cup |
Sep 1 |
7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000 |
Sep 3 |
Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy" premieres in NYC |
Sep 4 |
A Charlot & N Coward's revue "London Calling" premieres in London |
Sep 4 |
NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila A's, 2-0 |
Sep 4 |
Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. |
Sep 5 |
Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously |
Sep 6 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee |
Sep 7 |
Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Phila A's, 4-0 |
Sep 7 |
Interpol forms in Vienna |
Sep 7 |
Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23 |
Sep 8 |
Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost. |
Sep 9 |
Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) |
Sep 10 |
Irish Free state joins League of Nations |
Sep 11 |
After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks |
Sep 11 |
Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run |
Sep 11 |
ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower |
Sep 12 |
Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
Sep 13 |
With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera |
Sep 14 |
Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 14 |
Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain |
Sep 14 |
Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play |
Sep 15 |
43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (6-4 6-1 6-4) |
Sep 15 |
Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open |
Sep 15 |
Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror |
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 24 |
Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin) |
Sep 26 |
Stresemann government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied |
Sep 27 |
Italian troops leave occupied Korfu |
Sep 27 |
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs |
Sep 28 |
Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations |
Sep 28 |
Radio Times 1st published |
Sep 28 |
Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4 |
Sep 29 |
6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY |
Sep 29 |
Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public |
Sep 30 |
Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season |
Oct 2 |
British occuping army leaves Constantinople |
Oct 2 |
Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403 |
Oct 3 |
Germany's Stresemann resigns |
Oct 4 |
Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision |
Oct 5 |
Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star |
Oct 6 |
1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies) |
Oct 6 |
2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms |
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 10 |
NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium |
Oct 11 |
Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game |
Oct 11 |
German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $ |
Oct 12 |
NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series |
Oct 13 |
Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital |
Oct 15 |
NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 |
Oct 16 |
Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded |
Oct 16 |
John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland) |
Oct 17 |
Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens |
Oct 19 |
Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks |
Oct 19 |
Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter |
Oct 21 |
1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich |
Oct 23 |
Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform |
Oct 23 |
Giants defeat Balt Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day |
Oct 24 |
Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship |
Oct 25 |
Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal |
Oct 26 |
Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote) |
Oct 26 |
Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns |
Oct 29 |
Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway, New York City |
Oct 29 |
Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon |
Oct 29 |
Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins |
Oct 29 |
Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire) |
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 Aken (pro-French separatists driven) |
Nov 2 |
Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down |
Nov 6 |
USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks" |
Nov 8 |
Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Muenchen (Munich) |
Nov 9 |
Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees |
Nov 10 |
German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany |
Nov 11 |
Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph |
Nov 12 |
In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8 |
Nov 14 |
Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna. |
Nov 19 |
Béla Bartòk's "Tancsuite" premieres |
Nov 20 |
Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic signal |
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 22 |
Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death |
Nov 23 |
German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD |
Nov 23 |
Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD |
Nov 24 |
Radio Belgium's 1st transmission |
Nov 30 |
Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms |
Dec 1 |
CFL Grey Cup: Queen's U beats Regina 54-0 at Toronto |
Dec 3 |
1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Wash DC) |
Dec 4 |
Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres |
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 14 |
Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings) |
Dec 17 |
Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic |
Dec 18 |
International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco |
Dec 21 |
Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation |
Dec 22 |
Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict |
Dec 23 |
Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000 |
Dec 25 |
Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St NYC |
Dec 27 |
Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan |
Dec 28 |
George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan," premieres in NYC |
Dec 31 |
1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester |
Dec 31 |
BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID |
Dec 31 |
H Tierney/J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in NYC |
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