WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1923
Find out what all happened January to November 1923

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

Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets. (18. June 1923)

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

Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey. (13. October 1923)

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

The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. (13. July 1923)

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

The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. (1. July 1923)

Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel. (10. January 1923)

Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. (9. January 1923)

The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic. (15. November 1923)

Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS. (1. January 1923)

The first of 160 consecutive days of 100º Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia. (31. October 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)

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

In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis. (9. November 1923)

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

Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments. (11. January 1923)

Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. (13. September 1923)