WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1923
Find out what all happened February to December 1923

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

The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. (16. October 1923)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816. (21. December 1923)

24 Hours of Le Mans, was first held, and has since been run annually in June. (26. May 1923)

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

The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC. (31. December 1923)

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

The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul. (6. October 1923)