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Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1923
January-February
January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies.
January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
January 17 - Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor.
January 18 - Elon College's campus is destroyed by a fire.
February 28 - Barcelona (Spain): Albert Einstein visits the city, at the invitation of scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa.
March-April
March - Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias.
March 1 - USS Connecticut decommissioned.
March 1 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.
March 2 - Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time.
March 9 - Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke, his third, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
March 28 - Regia Aeronautica, air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.
April 28 - End of Irish Civil War.
April 6 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
April 12 - Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.
April 23 - Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia seaport.
April 23 - The House that Ruth Built: Yankee Stadium opens in New York City.
April 24 - Angora is discovered in Derbyshire.
April 26 - Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey. (...) more....

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