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1923 Calendar

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•  January 9, 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
•  February 10, 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
•  February 16, 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
•  March 24, 1923 – Greece becomes a republic.
•  April 18, 1923 – Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opens.
•  July 24, 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.
•  August 23, 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.
•  September 9, 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
•  October 6, 1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul

•  January 5, 1923 – Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
•  March 2, 1923 – Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, England (d. 1999)
•  June 20, 1923 – Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Danish actor (d. 1998)
•  June 25, 1923 – Sam Francis, America painter (d. 1994)
•  July 22, 1923 – Bob Dole, American politician, 1996 Republican Presidential candidate
•  August 3, 1923 – Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of Coptic Christianity
•  September 30, 1923 – Donald Swann, member of the group Flanders and Swann (d. 1994)
•  October 10, 1923 – Murray Walker, British motorsport commentator
•  October 20, 1923 – Robert Craft, American conductor
•  October 23, 1923 – Aslam Farrukhi, Pakistani scholar and poet