WHAT HAPPENED IN 1923.
Look what happened the 1923.

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

Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. (9. 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)

Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel. (10. January 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)

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

TIME magazine is published for the first time. (3. March 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 first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt. (22. March 1923)

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires. (5. April 1923)

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

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

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

In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego. (24. April 1923)

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

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

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

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

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