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List of events
Events from the year 1923 in the United States .
Warren G. Harding (R -Ohio ) (until August 2)Calvin Coolidge (R -Massachusetts ) (starting August 2)Calvin Coolidge (R -Massachusetts ) (until August 2)vacant (starting August 2)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : Thomas Kilby (Democratic ) (until January 15), William W. Brandon (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of Arizona : Thomas Edward Campbell (Republican ) (until January 1), George W. P. Hunt (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of Arkansas : Thomas Chipman McRae (Democratic )Governor of California : William Stephens (Republican ) (until January 9), Friend Richardson (Republican ) (starting January 9)Governor of Colorado : Oliver Henry Shoup (Republican ) (until January 9), William Ellery Sweet (Democratic ) (starting January 9)Governor of Connecticut : Everett J. Lake (Republican ) (until January 3), Charles A. Templeton (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of Delaware : William D. Denney (Republican )Governor of Florida : Cary A. Hardee (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : Thomas W. Hardwick (Democratic ) (until June 30), Clifford Walker (Democratic ) (starting June 30)Governor of Idaho : D. W. Davis (Republican ) (until January 1), Charles C. Moore (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of Illinois : Len Small (Republican )Governor of Indiana : Warren T. McCray (Republican )Governor of Iowa : Nathan E. Kendall (Republican )Governor of Kansas : Henry J. Allen (Republican ) (until January 8), Jonathan M. Davis (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of Kentucky : Edwin P. Morrow (Republican ) (until December 11), William J. Fields (Democratic ) (starting December 11)Governor of Louisiana : John M. Parker (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Percival Proctor Baxter (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Channing H. Cox (Republican )Governor of Michigan : Alex Groesbeck (Republican )Governor of Minnesota : J. A. O. Preus (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Lee M. Russell (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Arthur M. Hyde (Republican )Governor of Montana : Joseph M. Dixon (Republican )Governor of Nebraska : Samuel R. McKelvie (Republican ) (until January 3), Charles W. Bryan (Democratic ) (starting January 3)Governor of Nevada : Emmet D. Boyle (Democratic ) (until January 1), James G. Scrugham (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of New Hampshire : Albert O. Brown (Republican ) (until January 4), Fred H. Brown (Democratic ) (starting January 4)Governor of New Jersey : Edward I. Edwards (Democratic ) (until January 15), George Sebastian Silzer (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of New Mexico : Merritt C. Mechem (Republican ) (until January 1), James F. Hinkle (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of New York : Al Smith (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of North Carolina : Cameron Morrison (Democratic )Governor of North Dakota : Ragnvald A. Nestos (Republican )Governor of Ohio : Harry L. Davis (Republican ) (until January 8), A. Victor Donahey (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of Oklahoma :
Governor of Oregon : Ben W. Olcott (Republican ) (until January 8), Walter M. Pierce (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of Pennsylvania : William Cameron Sproul (Republican ) (until January 16), Gifford Pinchot (Republican ) (starting January 16)Governor of Rhode Island : Emery J. San Souci (Republican ) (until January 2), William S. Flynn (Democratic ) (starting January 2)Governor of South Carolina : Wilson Godfrey Harvey (Democratic ) (until January 16), Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic ) (starting January 16)Governor of South Dakota : William H. McMaster (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Alfred A. Taylor (Republican ) (until January 16), Austin Peay (Democratic ) (starting January 16)Governor of Texas : Pat Morris Neff (Democratic )Governor of Utah : Charles R. Mabey (Republican )Governor of Vermont : James Hartness (Republican ) (until January 4), Redfield Proctor, Jr. (Republican ) (starting January 4)Governor of Virginia : Elbert Lee Trinkle (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Louis Folwell Hart (Republican )Governor of West Virginia : Ephraim F. Morgan (Republican )Governor of Wisconsin : John J. Blaine (Republican )Governor of Wyoming : Robert D. Carey (Republican ) (until January 1), William B. Ross (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Nathan Lee Miller (Democratic ) (until January 15), Charles S. McDowell (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Lieutenant Governor of California : Clement Calhoun Young (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Earl Cooley (Republican ) (until January 9), Robert F. Rockwell (Republican ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Charles A. Templeton (Republican ) (until January 3), Hiram Bingham (Republican ) (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : J. Danforth Bush (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Charles C. Moore (Republican ) (until January 1), H. C. Baldridge (Republican ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Fred E. Sterling (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Emmett Forrest Branch (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : John Hammill (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Charles S. Huffman (Republican ) (until January 9), Ben Sanford Paulen (Republican ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : S. Thruston Ballard (Republican ) (until December 11), Henry Denhardt (Democratic ) (starting December 11)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Hewitt Bouanchaud (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Alvan T. Fuller (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Thomas Read (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Louis L. Collins (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Homer H. Casteel (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Hiram Lloyd (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Nelson Story Jr. (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Pelham A. Barrows (Republican ) (until January 3), Fred G. Johnson (Republican ) (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : William H. Duckworth (Republican ) (until January 1), Jose A. Baca (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of New York : George R. Lunn (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : William B. Cooper (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Howard R. Wood (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Frank H. Hyland (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Clarence J. Brown Sr. (Republican ) (until January 8), Earl D. Bloom (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : Martin E. Trapp (Democratic ) (until November 19), vacant (starting November 19)Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Edward E. Beidleman (Republican ) (until January 20), David J. Davis (Republican ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Harold Gross (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Felix A. Toupin (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : vacant (until January 16), E. B. Jackson (Democratic ) (starting January 16)Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Carl Gunderson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : William West Bond (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Eugene J. Bryan (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Lynch Davidson (Democratic ) (until January 16), Thomas Whitfield Davidson (Democratic ) (starting January 16)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Abram W. Foote (Republican ) (until January 4), Franklin S. Billings (Republican ) (starting January 4)Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Junius Edgar West (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : William J. Coyle (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : George F. Comings (Republican )
August 2: Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th U.S. president following the death of President Warren G. Harding April 1 – Safety Last! Harold Lloyd , is released.
April 4 – Warner Bros. Film Studio is formally incorporated in the United States, as Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., by Jack L. Warner , Harry Warner , Sam Warner and Albert Warner .
April 6 – Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, "Chimes Blues", with King Oliver 's Creole Jazz Band.
April 15 – Nihon Shōgakkō fire : 10 Japanese-American children are killed in a racially motivated arson attack on a Japanese Buddhist mission school in Sacramento, California , by an itinerant Mexican-American serial arsonist.[ 3]
April 18 – The first Yankee Stadium opens its doors in the Bronx , New York City .
May 9 – Southeastern Michigan receives a record 6 inches (15 cm) of snow after temperatures plummeted from 62 °F (17 °C) to 34 °F (1 °C) degrees between 13:00-18:00 on the previous day.[ 4]
May 15 – Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island officially opened.[ 5]
May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan defies a law requiring publication of its members. Bob Dole January 1 – Daniel Gorenstein , mathematician (died 1992 )
January 3 – Hank Stram , American football coach and broadcaster (died 2005 )
January 16 – Anthony Hecht , poet (died 2004 )
January 29
January 31 – Norman Mailer , writer (died 2007 )
February 2
February 13
February 20 – Helen Murray Free , chemist and educator (died 2021 )
February 28
March 2 – Bob Chinn , restaurateur (d. 2022 )March 9
March 10 – Val Logsdon Fitch , nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 2015 )
March 12 – Mae Young , wrestler (died 2014 )
March 14 – Diane Arbus , photographer (died 1971 )
March 27 – Jack O'Neill , businessman (O'Neill surfwear & equipment) (died 2017 )
April 1
April 3 – Daniel Hoffman , poet (died 2013 )
April 13
April 23 – Walter Pitts , logician and cognitive psychologist (died 1969 )
April 25
May 1 – Joseph Heller , novelist (died 1999 )
May 16 – Merton Miller , economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (died 2000 )
May 27 – Henry Kissinger , United States Secretary of State , recipient of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize (died 2023 )
June 2 – Lloyd Shapley , mathematician, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016 )
June 8 – Malcolm Boyd , priest and author (died 2015 )
June 19 – Geri M. Joseph , diplomat and political figure (died 2023 )
June 22 – John Oldham , basketball player (died 2020 )
July 13 – Ashley Bryan , children's book writer and illustrator (died 2022 )
July 14 – Robert Zildjian , musical instrument manufacturer (Sabian ) (died 2013 )
July 22
July 31 – Stephanie Kwolek , polymer chemist (died 2014 )
August 3 – Jean Hagen , actress (died 1977 )[ 12]
August 10
August 20 – Jim Reeves , country singer (died 1964 )
September 1 – Rocky Marciano , boxer (died 1969 )
September 3
September 9 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , virologist (died 2008 )
September 17 – Hank Williams , country musician (died 1953 )
September 18 – Al Quie , politician (died 2023 )
September 26 – Jack Oliver , geophysicist (died 2011 )
October 1 – Babe McCarthy , basketball coach (died 1975 )
October 2 – Hershel W. Williams , Medal of Honour recipient (died 2022 )
October 4 – Charlton Heston , film actor (died 2008 )
October 20 – Robert Craft , orchestral conductor (died 2015 )
October 23
October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein , pop artist (died 1997 )
November 6 – Robert P. Griffin , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1966 to 1979 (died 2015 )
November 8 – Jack Kilby , electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 2005 )
November 9
November 18
November 23
November 26 – Nat Allbright , sports commentator (died 2011 )
December 2 – Maria Callas , singer (died 1977 )
December 10 – Harold Gould , actor (died 2010 )
December 11
December 12 – Bob Barker , game show host (died 2023 )
December 13
December 23 – James Stockdale , U.S. Navy admiral and vice presidential candidate (died 2005 )
December 24 – George Patton IV , U.S. Army general (died 2004 )
December 29
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Warren G. Harding January 1 – Willie Keeler , baseball player (born 1872 )
January 18 – Wallace Reid , actor (born 1891 )
February 6 – Edward Emerson Barnard , astronomer (born 1857 )
February 14 – Charles Henry Turner , African American entomologist (born 1867 )
February 15 – Minnie Willis Baines , author (born 1845 )[ 14]
February 24 – Edward W. Morley , scientist (born 1838 )
February 26
March 3 – Melancthon J. Briggs , lawyer and politician (born 1846 )
March 6 – Joseph McDermott , actor (born 1878 )
March 15 – Goat Anderson , baseball player (born 1880 )
April 6 – Alice Cunningham Fletcher , ethnologist and anthropologist (born 1838)
April 11 – Mary Treat , naturalist (born 1830 )
April 28 – Knute Nelson , Governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1895 to 1923 (born 1843 in Norway )
August 2 – Warren G. Harding , 29th president of the United States from 1921 to 1923 (born 1865 )
August 10 – Laura Redden Searing , deaf poet and journalist (born 1839 )
October 19 – Eleanor Norcross , painter (born 1854 )
October 23 – Hannah Johnston Bailey , temperance advocate and suffragist (born 1839)
November 11 – Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye , biographer (born 1858 )
November 17 – Mary Bigelow Ingham , author, educator, and religious worker (born 1832 )
December 28 – Frank Hayes , actor (born 1871 )
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