WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1923
Find out what all happened August to September 1923

The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people. (1. September 1923)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours. (23. August 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)