WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1923
Find out what all happened February to September 1923

The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia. (6. April 1923)

Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. (4. September 1923)

The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States. (20. March 1923)

The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. (26. April 1923)

The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I. (24. July 1923)

Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar. (15. February 1923)

Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. (16. February 1923)

Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas (10. February 1923)

The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine. (29. September 1923)

Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. (8. September 1923)

TIME magazine is published for the first time. (3. March 1923)

Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. (9. June 1923)

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party. (9. September 1923)

Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations. (26. September 1923)

The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt. (22. March 1923)

Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens. (18. April 1923)

Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified. (13. May 1923)

Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. (15. April 1923)

Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane (25. June 1923)

As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding (2. August 1923)

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