WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1923
Find out what all happened June to December 1923

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. (8. November 1923)

Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. (29. October 1923)

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

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

The first of 160 consecutive days of 100º Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia. (31. October 1923)

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

The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. (22. October 1923)

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

Daisuke Namba, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito. (27. December 1923)