February 1923 in History

Events in History

Feb 1 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini

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 16 Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory

Feb 16 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus

Feb 18 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
Feb 19 Philip Barry's "You & I" premieres in NYC
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" locomotive of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), built at Doncaster Railway Works, goes into service [1]
Feb 24 Mass arrests in US of mafia
Feb 25 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 marks
Feb 26 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
Feb 28 Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands

Feb 2 James Dickey, American poet, novelist and lecturer (Deliverance, Buckdancer's Choice), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1997)
Feb 4 Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, President of Colombia (1982-86), born in Amagá, Colombia (d. 2018)
Feb 5 Doris Bohrer [Sharrar], American WWII spy, born in Basin, Wyoming (d. 2016)
Feb 7 Martha Holmes, American photographer (d. 2006)
Feb 8 Andrew MacElhone, famous bar owner (Harry's New York Bar in Paris)

Feb 9 Irish author and poet (Borstal Boy, The Hostage), born in Dublin, Ireland

Feb 9 Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
Feb 11 Baroness Sharples, made a life peer after the assassination of her husband (Sir Richard Sharples)
Feb 11 Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
Feb 11 Sy Kattelson, American photographer, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 2018)
Feb 12 Chaskel Besser, Orthodox rabbi
Feb 12 Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director (Romeo & Juliet), born in Florence, Italy (d. 2019)
Feb 12 James Abdnor, (Sen-R-SD, 1981-87), (d. 2012)

Feb 12 Irish politician, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (1969-71), born in Moyola Park, Londonderry

Feb 13 American test pilot who was the 1st man to break the sound barrier, born in Myra, West Virginia [1]

Feb 15 Soviet dissident and wife of Andre Sakharov, born in Merv, Turkmenistan, Soviet Union [1]

Feb 17 Alden Winship Clausen, American banker (President of World Bank), born in Hamilton, Illinois (d. 2013)
Feb 20 Forbes Burnham, premier Guyana (1964-85)
Feb 23 Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet
Feb 23 Michael Bilandic, American lawyer, politician (Mayor of Chicago, 1976-79), and jurist (Illinois Supreme Court, 1990-2000), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1978)
Feb 23 Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
Feb 25 Roger Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
Feb 27 Peter Fowler, British physicist who studied cosmic rays and radiation, born in England (d. 1996)