January 1923 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jan 13 Taking advantage of the chaotic condition of Germany, Hitler stages a demonstration of 5000 storm troopers and denounces the 'November crime'

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

Britain's War Debt

Jan 19 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin and US Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon agree to reschedule repayment of Britain's $4.5 billion war debt over 62 years

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 in New Mexico established
Jan 25 NVV donates 100,000 guilders to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
Jan 28 Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
Jan 29 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)

Birthdays in History

Jan 1 Chalmers Goodlin, US test pilot (XS-1)
Jan 1 Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
Jan 5 Robert L. Bernstein, American publisher (Random House), born in NYC, New York
Jan 6 Jacobo Timerman, Soviet-born Argentine writer, born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (d. 1999)
Jan 6 Leah Chase, New Orleans chef & author, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Jan 7 Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
Jan 8 Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer scientist & professor, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2008)
Jan 10 Ingeborg Drewitz, German writer & academic, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1986)
Jan 12 Ira Hayes, Pima Native American soldier, born in Sacaton, Arizona (d. 1955)
Jan 15 Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, born in Glasgow, United Kingdom (d. 2006)
Jan 15 Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese statesman (Taiwan's 1st popularly elected President 1988–2000), born in Sanzhi, Taiwan (d. 2020) [1]
Jan 16 Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
Jan 16 Willem Aantjes, Dutch political leader (CDA)
Jan 19 Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
Jan 21 Judith Merril [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer
Jan 23 Walter M. Miller Jr., American sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars), born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Jan 25 Arvid Carlsson, Swedish neuropharmacologist whose work with dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease earned him a Nobel Prize (2000), born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 2018)
Jan 25 Eva Zeller, German poet & novelist, born in Eberswalde, Brandenburg
Jan 25 Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil"), born in Dodge Center, Minnesota (d. 1998)

Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

Jan 31 American novelist (Naked & the Dead, The Executioner's Song), born in NYC, New York

Weddings in History

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Jan 29 President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (41) weds Latife Hanim; divorce in 1925

Deaths in History

Jan 2 Sam Carter, African American resident of Rosewood Florida, lynched in the Rosewood Massacre
Jan 3 Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (The Good Soldier Švejk), dies of heart failure at 39