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News and Events of 1923

World Events

population by decade

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Adolf Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich fails; in 1924 he is sentenced to five years in prison where he writes Mein Kampf. He is released after eight months.
Earthquake destroys one-third of Tokyo.
Occupation of Ruhr by French and Belgian troops to enforce reparations payments. Background: Holocaust Reparations

President: Warren G. Harding
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge
Population: 111,947,000

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President Warren G. Harding suddenly falls ill (July 28) while returning from a trip to Alaska and is rushed to San Francisco, where he dies on Aug. 2.
The second Ku Klux Klan movement in U.S. history grows, stirring widespread controversy and violence.

Federal spending:   $3.14 billion
Consumer Price Index:   17.1
Unemployment:   2.4%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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NY Yankees d. NY Giants (4-2)

Ottawa d. Vancouver (3-1)
Ottawa d. Edmonton (2-0)

Women: Suzanne Lenglen d. K. McKane (6-2 6-2)
Men: Bill Johnston d. F. Hunter (6-0 6-3 6-1)

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Illinois (CFRA, HF) (8-0-0) & Michigan (NCF) (8-0-0)

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: One of Ours, Willa Cather
Drama: Icebound, Owen Davis

Nobel Prize for Literature: William B. Yeats (Ireland)

Miss America: Mary Campbell (OH)

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Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube. He patents the first color tube in 1925.
A.C. Nielsen Company is founded and provides measurements of radio audiences for advertisers.
"Queen of the Blues" Bessie Smith records her first song, "Down Hearted Blues," which becomes an immediate success.
Harlem's Cotton Club opens and presents all-black performances to white-only audiences. Entertainers will include Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, and Cab Calloway.
German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin becomes film's first canine star.
Time Magazine debuts.

Chemistry: Fritz Pregl (Austria), for method of microanalysis of organic substances discovered by him

Physics: Robert A. Millikan (US), for work on elementary charge of electricity and photoelectric phenomena

Physiology or Medicine: Sir Frederick Banting (Canada) and John J. R. Macleod (Scotland), for discovery of insulin

A whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine is developed.
Harry Steenbock discovers that radiating food with ultraviolet light adds vitamin D.
Scopolamine, previously used as a childbirth anesthetic, is found to act as a "truth" serum after tests on convicts at San Quentin Prison.