July 1923 in History

Events in History

Jul 8 Walter Mittelholzer flies a Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland

Jul 8 Warren G. Harding becomes 1st sitting US President to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)

Jul 10 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle in Rostov, Russia
Jul 10 All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
Jul 13 American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first recognised dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Jul 15 Italian parliament accepts new constitution
Jul 17 Carl Mays gives up 13 runs and 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
Jul 18 British House of Lords accepts new divorce law
Jul 19 WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
Jul 24 Allied Powers and 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 2 Wislawa Szymborska, Prowent, Polish poet referred to as the 'Mozart of Poetry' (Nobel 1996), (d. 2012)
Jul 3 Bankole Timothy, Sierra Leonean journalist, born in Sierra Leone (d. 1994)
Jul 3 Sue Ryder, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw & Cavendish, British volunteer with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England (d. 2000)
Jul 3 William Mills, British painter (d. 1997)
Jul 4 Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1982-84), born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 2013)
Jul 5 Arno Motulsky, German-born founder of medical genetics, known as the "father of pharmacogenomics", born in Fischhausen, East Prussia, Weimar Germany (d. 2018)

Jul 6 Polish general and 1st President of Poland (1989-90), born in Kurów, Poland

Jul 7 Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire
Jul 10 Earl Hamner Jr., American creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons", born in Schuyler, Virginia (d. 2016)
Jul 10 G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (RamalKhuna), born in Examba, Karnataka (d. 1987)
Jul 10 Jean Kerr, Irish-American novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
Jul 10 John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima), born in Antigo, Wisconsin (d. 1994)
Jul 12 James E. Gunn, American sci-fi author (The Listeners, Station in Space, Immortal), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 2020)
Jul 14 Frances Lear, American Woman's magazine publisher (Lears), born in Larchmont, New York (1995)
Jul 16 Chris Argyris, American business theorist and educator, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2013)
Jul 16 Reg Prentice, British government minister, born in Croydon, Surrey (d. 2001)
Jul 17 John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
Jul 18 Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor, (held more than 600 patents), born in Staten Island, New York (d. 1997)
Jul 19 William A. Rusher, American lawyer and columnist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2011)
Jul 20 Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)

Jul 22 American politician (Senate Republican leader, 1985-96, Presidential candidate in 1996), born in Russell, Kansas

Jul 23 Cyril M. Kornbluth, American sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), born in NYC, New York (d. 1958)
Jul 25 Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (Josephine), born in Vaxholm, Uppland, Sweden (d. 2007)
Jul 26 Jan Berenstain [Janice Marian Grant], American author (The Berenstain Bears), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
Jul 26 Peter Carey, British civil servant and permanent secretary (DTI), born in Portsmouth (d. 2011)
Jul 27 Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate, born in Gimje, Jeollabuk-do, Japanese Korea (d. 1994)
Jul 28 Kent Lee, American vice-admiral (WW II-Marianas, Korea and Vietnam), born in Florence County, South Carolina (d. 2017)
Jul 28 Mary Jane Odell, American politician and journalist, Iowa Secretary of State, born in Algona, Iowa (d. 2010)
Jul 28 Michio Watanabe, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister, born in Ōtawara, Japan (d. 1995)
Jul 30 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist leader of PKI (1951-65), born in Belitung Island, Dutch East Indies (d. 1965)

Jul 4 Florimond Fonteyne, Belgian priest and politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
Jul 9 William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at 74
Jul 16 Louis Couperus, Dutch poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60
Jul 20 Pancho Villa [José Doroteo Arango Arámbula], Mexican revolutionary general and guerrilla leader,, murdered at 55
Jul 23 Charles Dupuy, French statesman, 3 times Prime Minister of France (1893, 1894-95, 1898-99), dies at 71