September 1923 in History

Events in History

Sep 6 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee

Sep 7 Interpol forms in Vienna
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 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 Miguel Primo de Rivera leads a military coup with the support of King Alfonso XIII to become dictator and Prime Minister of Spain

Sep 15 Governor Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of Ku Klux Klan terror
Sep 15 Military officer Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator and Prime Minister of Spain after launching a coup d'état
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 26 Gustav Stresemann government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied

Sep 26 The Commonwealth Conference is held in London, where Britain recognizes the right of the Dominions to make treaties with foreign powers
Sep 27 Italian troops leave occupied Corfu
Sep 28 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations
Sep 28 Radio Times 1st published
Sep 29 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public

Sep 1 Theo Joekes, Dutch journalist, writer, and politician (VVD), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1999)
Sep 2 Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
Sep 3 Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois), born in El Dorado, Kansas (d. 2018)
Sep 6 Peter II Karadjordjevic, last King of Yugoslavia (1934-45), born in Belgrade, Serbia (d. 1970)
Sep 9 Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, (1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on transmissibility of kuru), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 2008) [1]
Sep 13 Édouard Boubat, French photographer, born in Montmartre, Paris (d. 1999)

Sep 16 Founding father of modern Singapore and 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-90), born in Singapore

Sep 17 John Rigby Hale, British linguist and historian, born in Ashford, Kent (d. 1999)
Sep 18 Bertha Wilson, Canadian lawyer and the 1st woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland (d. 2007)
Sep 18 Jur Mellema, Dutch politician (CHU), born in Nieuw-Scheemda, Netherlands (d. 2017)
Sep 18 Peter Smithson, English architect, born in Stockton-on-Tees, England (d. 2003)
Sep 18 Queen Anne of Romania [Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma], wife of Michael I King of Romania, born in Paris (d. 2016)
Sep 20 Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish poet (A Little Bouquet), born in Northern Ireland (d. 1997)
Sep 22 Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer, born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 2014)
Sep 23 Samuel V. Wilson, American ex-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former Army lieutenant general, born in Rice, Virginia (d. 2017)
Sep 24 Ladislav Fuks, Czech writer, born in Prague (d. 1994)
Sep 24 Mervyn Brown, British diplomat and historian of Madagascar
Sep 28 Fred Robbins, American DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Sep 28 John Scott, Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish peer, then largest landowner in Scotland, 1st MP in a wheelchair (d. 2007)
Sep 29 Stan Berenstain, American children's author (The Berenstain Bears), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2005)

Sep 3 Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)

Sep 12 Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor, dies at 81
Sep 22 Marquess of Ripon, English aristocrat and game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse in one morning at 71