The following events occurred inNovember 1923:

• Imprisoned steel industrialistGustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach signed an agreement with the French government establishing conditions under which theKrupp mines in theRuhr would resume work.^[2] Krupp was released from prison 14 days later.
• The governments ofEstonia andLatvia signed a mutual defense treaty and military alliance. Latvia renounced all claims it had made onRuhnu island in theGulf of Riga.^[3][4]
• The Finnish airlineFinnair was founded by Bruno Lucander under the name "Aero Osakeyhtiö" (Aero Joint Stock Company), abbreviated to Aero O/Y. Lucander's sole aircraft at first was a single-engine Junkers F.13 seaplane, used for flying a route between Helsinki and Tallinn. In 1947, the company would be renamed Finnish Airlines, shortened to Finnair in 1949.^[5]
• Born:
  • Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish singer; inBarcelona,Spain (d.2005)^{[citation needed]}
  • Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian science fiction writer; inEdmonton,Canada (d.2001)^{[citation needed]}
• Died:Bill Lovett, 29, Irish-American gangster and retired leader of New York'sWhite Hand Gang; murdered while sleeping in an abandoned store at 25 Bridge Street inBrooklyn, after a night of drinking at Sand's Saloon (b.1894)^[6][7]

• Silent film starMargaret Gibson was arrested at her home in Los Angeles on federal charges of operating a blackmail and extortion ring, charges that were later dropped.^{[citation needed]} She performed under her own name from 1913 to 1917, and later as Patricia Palmer from 1918 to 1929.
• U.S. Navy Lieutenant Harold J. Brow set a newflight airspeed record at the Mineola airfield on New York's Long Island, becoming the first person to fly faster than 400 kilometers per hour and the first of more than 250 miles per hour. Brow, competing against Navy Lieutenant Alford J. Williams, averaged 417.07 kilometres per hour (259.16 mph) over a three-kilometer course.^[8]
• Three Socialist members of theGustav Stresemann cabinet resigned in protest of the government's refusal to curb the powers of the dictatorial regime inBavaria.^[9][10]
• TheReichsbank issued a 100 trillion-mark banknote.^[11]
• David Lloyd George gave a final speech at theMetropolitan Opera House as he ended his tour of North America. Lloyd George defended theTreaty of Versailles as "the best treaty that could have been negotiated under the circumstances at that time" and said it was not the treaty that was responsible for the present problems of Europe, but "the completeness of the victory. It was the most complete victory that has almost ever been won in wars between great nations. Germany-Austria were shattered, demoralized, disarmed, prostrated; we left them like broken backed creatures on the road for any chariot to run over."^{[This quote needs a citation]} He added that Europe must be given "the conviction that right is supreme over force. Who is to do it? There are only two countries on Earth which can establish that conviction, and those are the United States of America and the British Empire. Unless it is done, I do not know what is going to happen."^[12][13][14]
• Born:
  • Cesare Rubini, Italian professional basketball player and coach, won 15 national championships from 1950 to 1972 as the coach ofOlimpia Milano; inTrieste,Kingdom of Italy (present-dayItaly) (d.2011)
  • Dr.Charles Kamalam Job, Indian surgeon and medical researcher in the study ofleprosy; inPalliyadi,Madras Province,British India (present-dayTamil Nadu state,India) (d.2012)
• Died:
  • Lim Chin Tsong, 56, Chinese-Burmese businessman and philanthropist (b.1867)
  • Stevan Aleksić, 46, Serbian Romanian painter (b.1876)

• Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden marriedLouise Mountbatten atSt James's Palace.^[15]
• U.S. Army CaptainHarold Kullberg performed the first arrest in the United States for violation of air traffic rules. While flying, Kullberg noticed a plane that was stunt flying overAkron, Ohio. When the plane landed at Stowe airfield, Kullberg did as well and arrested pilot Howard Calvert and passenger Frank O'Neill.^[16]
• TheNew York Renaissance the first all-black professional basketball team, commonly called "The Rens", played its first game, defeating the "Collegiate Five", a group of white former college basketball players, 28 to 22. The game took place at the Renaissance Casino and Ballroom in theHarlem section of New York City.^[17]
• German PresidentFriedrich Ebert refused the request of GeneralHans von Seeckt for dictatorial powers in law enforcement inBavaria.^[10]
• InAustralia, two people were killed, and 150 injured in rioting as a result of theVictorian Police strike inMelbourne.^[18]
• Born:
  • Violetta Prokhorova Elvin, Russian prima ballerina and actress; as Violetta Prokhorova, inMoscow,Russian SFSR (present-dayRussia) (d.2021)
  • Tomás Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Armagh and a Cardinal from 1979 until his death; inCullyhanna,County Armagh,Northern Ireland (d.1990)
  • Moreno de Souza, Portuguese Jesuit priest in the Portugal'sGoa colony, translator of the Holy Bible into theKonkani language; inPilerne,Goa,Portuguese India (present-dayIndia) (d.2007)

• Nationalist groups including monarchists andNazis paraded inMunich during a memorial ceremony for war dead in which a corner stone was laid for a new monument.Crown Prince Rupprecht,Otto von Lossow andEugen von Knilling were among those in attendance.^[19]Adolf Hitler plotted to use this occasion to launch aputsch by kidnapping the Bavarian leaders and declaring a revolution from the reviewing stand, but he abandoned the plan after seeing the large police presence on the scene.^[20]
• The Australian government issued an appeal to fit men of military age to enroll as special constables as theVictorian Police strike entered its fourth full day.^[18] The strike gradually petered out with the hiring of these Specials.^[21]
• United States Navy Lieutenant Alford J. Williams broke theflight airspeed record just two days after it has been set, flying at 429.02 kilometres per hour (266.58 mph) at Mineola.^[22]
• Born:
  • John Powell, British physicist who created theEMIbrain scanner andbody scanner; inIslip, Oxfordshire,England (d.1996)
  • Freddy Heineken, Dutch billionaire who built theHeineken International beer brewing company into a worldwide organization; as Alfred Henry Heineken, inAmsterdam,Netherlands (d.2002)
  • Eugene Sledge, U.S. Marine and later a historian whose combat experiences were chronicled in thePBS documentaryThe War, and theHBO drama seriesThe Pacific; inMobile, Alabama,United States (d.2001)

• Aplebiscite on prohibition was held in the Canadian province ofAlberta on whether to retain the1916 prohibition of sales of liquor. Voters opted overwhelmingly in favor of the sale of liquor by government-licensed stores, with 57.7% of the vote.^[23]
• Voters in theScottish town ofFalkirk,Stirlingshire, opted overwhelmingly in favor of the local sale of liquor as the first of 26 Scot towns to vote on the issue.^[24]
• Representatives of Germany and the Soviet Union signed an extension of the 1922Treaty of Rapallo that had been made with the Russian SFSR alone. The new agreement extended the same terms between Germany and the other members of the U.S.S.R., theUkrainian SSR,Byelorussian SSR,Armenian SSR,Georgian SSR, and theAzerbaijani SSR.^[25]
• A mob of poor and unemployedBerliners stormed theGrenadierstrasse and attacked Jews whom they blamed for the high prices of food.^[26]
• The trial ofMaurice Conradi, who had assassinated Soviet peace conference delegateVatslav Vorovsky on May 10, began inSwitzerland atLausanne.^[27]
• ProminentKu Klux Klan figure William S. Coburn was shot dead in his office inAtlanta by a member of a rival Klan faction.^[28]

• A coal mine explosion killed 27 miners of the Raleigh-Wyoming Coal Company inGlen Rogers, West Virginia. Another 36 survived because the mine had been equipped with the most modern ventilation system available at that time.^[29]
• A least 18 striking workers, and 14 soldiers, were killedin a riot in Kraków inPoland. The uprising started when a policeman fired into a crowd of demonstrators as they entered Main Market Square.^[30]
• Born:Nizoramo Zaripova, Soviet Tajik feminist and acting head of state of theTadzhik SSR in 1984; in Pusheni,Uzbek SSR (present-dayTajikistan) (d.2024)

• TheImperial Conference approved aprotectionist tariff plan that would give favorable treatment to Empire goods.^[31]
• The Imperial Conference also accepted, in modified form, an American plan to thwartrum-running by British vessels. It would give the United States authority to search and seize British ships suspected of containing contraband alcohol within a certain proximity to American shores, while British ships in return would be allowed to bring liquor to American ports under seal when intended for outbound consumption.^[32]
• Heavyweight boxerBilly Miske, despite being terminally ill with kidney disease, fought his final bout, ending in an upset ofBill Brennan with a fourth round knockout. Both Miske and Brennan had fought championship bouts withJack Dempsey in 1920. Miske died less than eight weeks after his retirement from the ring.^{[citation needed]}

• TheBeer Hall Putsch began inMunich asAdolf Hitler and 603 members of his Nazi Party'sStorm Troopers surrounded a large beer hall,Der Bürgerbräukeller, where Bavaria's State CommissionerGustav Ritter von Kahr was making a speech to 3,000 people. Hitler announced that the Bavarian government ofEugen von Knilling had been deposed and that GeneralErich Ludendorff would form a new government.^{[33][34][35][36]}
• TheImperial Conference ended with an agreement that Dominions would be allowed to sign their own treaties with foreign countries.^[37]
• Born:
  • Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and 2000Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his role in inventing the firstintegrated circuit, as well as the handheld calculator and the thermal printer; inJefferson City, Missouri,United States (d.2005)
  • Józef Hen, Polish novelist, playwright and screenwriter; as Józef Henryk Cukier, inWarsaw,Poland
• Died:
  • John Davey, 77, English-born American agriculture specialist, environmentalist and pioneer oftree surgery (b.1846)
  • Fusakichi Omori, 55, Japanese seismologist who formulatedOmori's law for the prediction of the timing ofaftershocks following an initial earthquake; died of a brain tumor (b.1868)^[38]

• Gustav Ritter von Kahr revoked his support of Hitler, issuing a statement at 7:45 a.m. on behalf of himself, Lossow and von Seisser that their pledges the day before had been extorted under duress and were "null and void".^[34][39] With the putsch having stalled, Ludendorff led a hastily arranged 11:00 a.m. march with 2,000 men on the center ofMunich, until police fired on the putschists and dispersed them. Four police officers, 15 Nazis, and one bystander were killed in the gun battle. Ludendorff was arrested, butHermann Göring and Hitler were among those who escaped.^[34][35][40]
• TheNazi Party was banned throughout Germany after its members had attempted the coup d'etat.^[41]
• David Lloyd George disembarked inSouthampton and walked right into the fight onStanley Baldwin'sprotectionist tariff policy, which Lloyd George called "an unutterable, unintelligible folly."^[42]
• Born:
  • Alice Coachman, American high jump athlete and the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in 1948; inAlbany, Georgia,United States (d.2014)
  • Sugiura Shigemine, Japanese fighter pilot celebrated as a supernatural figure inTaiwan asFeihu Jiangjun since his death; inMito, Ibaraki Prefecture,Empire of Japan (present-dayJapan) (d.1944, killed in plane crash)
  • Katarina Josipi, Albanian-Yugoslavian actress; as Katë Dulaj, inZym,Yugoslavia (present-dayKosovo) (d.1969)
  • James Schuyler, American poet; inChicago, United States (d.1991)
• Died:
  • Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, 39, leader of theAufbau Vereinigung and associate of Adolf Hitler in the Nazi Party; shot and killed in the course of the "Beer Hall Putsch" attempt to overthrow the government ofMunich (b.1884)^[43]
  • John Koren, 62, American clergyman and statistician, served as the U.S. International Prison Commissioner; jumped overboard from the linerNieuw Amsterdam while the ship was sailing to New York (b.1861)^[44]

• In a radio broadcast, former U.S. PresidentWoodrow Wilson called the U.S.isolationist policy after the war "cowardly and dishonorable."^[45]
• Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany ended his exile in the Netherlands and crossed back onto German soil. Dutch authorities had informed him that he would not be allowed to return to Holland as a refugee again. Wilhelm went straight toHanover and visited retired Field MarshalPaul von Hindenburg.^[46]
• Erich Ludendorff was released on parole when he gave his word that he would not participate in any more revolutionary activities.^[47]
• Born:
  • Anne Shelton, English singer; as Patricia Sibley, inDulwich,London,England (d.1994)
  • Hachikō, JapaneseAkita dog known for his nine year loyalty to his deceased owner (d.1935)

• Three days after the attemptedBeer Hall Putsch, Bavarian police foundAdolf Hitler hiding in the attic of the country home of his friendErnst Hanfstaengl and arrested him on charges of high treason. Hitler, who would be incarcerated for 13 months, appointed his colleagueAlfred Rosenberg to be the temporary leader of the Nazi Party.^[34][35][36]
• A World Requiem, Opus 60 of British composerJohn Foulds, was performed for the first time. The premiere was carried out by a group of 1,250 instrumentalists, including the Cenotaph Choir, in a concert at theRoyal Albert Hall inLondon.^{[citation needed]}
• Germany's ChancellorGustav Stresemann said that the return ofCrown Prince Wilhelm was a matter of internal policy and could not be refused.^[10]
• Born:Alfred Schreiber, GermanLuftwaffe fighter pilot who was the first jet pilot to claim an aerial victory in aviation history; inNeplachowitz (d.1944)
• Died:
  • Tommy Ball, 23, English footballer forAston Villa F.C.; shot and killed by his landlord (b.1900)^[48]
  • Tom Butler, English footballer forPort Vale F.C.; died of tetanus from a game injury sustained on November 3 againstClapton Orient
  • Robert C. Murdoch, 62, Australian zoologist and expert onmalacology, the study of mollusks (b.1861)

• The newflag of the Soviet Union was adopted. Its design of a solid red field with a gold hammer, sickle and star in the upper hoist corner would be used with only a couple of minor variations until the USSR's dissolution in 1991.^[49]
• TheU.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of U.S. states to ban non-U.S. citizens from owning or leasing agricultural land, in its decision inTerrace v. Thompson. The case had arisen from a challenge to California'sAlien Land Law of 1913 and to a similar law in the state of Washington, both passed to discourage Japanese immigration.^[50]
• The historical drama filmUnder the Red Robe, starringRobert B. Mantell asCardinal Richelieu, was released.^{[citation needed]}
• The drama filmFlaming Youth, starringColleen Moore andMilton Sills, was released.^{[citation needed]}
• Born:
  • Charlie Mariano, American jazz saxophonist; as Carmine Mariano, inBoston,United States (d.2009)
  • Richard Venture, American actor; as Richard Venturella, inNew York City, United States (d.2017)

• Former British Prime MinistersDavid Lloyd George andH. H. Asquith, opposing members with in Britain'sLiberal Party, reached an agreement on a manifesto for free trade in order to present a united front for the party prior to theDecember 6 elections for the House of Commons.^{[citation needed]}
• France agreed to allow for the appointment of an experts' committee to investigate Germany's capability to pay itsreparations.^[37][51]
• TheArgonne Cross Memorial was dedicated atArlington National Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}
• Born:Linda Christian; Mexican-born American film actress; as Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer, inTampico,Mexico (d.2011)

• Germany suspended the payment of itsreparations, explaining that France and Belgium had broken theTreaty of Versailles byoccupying the Ruhr and that payment would not resume until they left.^[52][53][54]
• GeneralHans von Seeckt ordered that all Berlin cafés, halls and cabarets must freely admit the city's poor and cold in order to warm themselves. Failure to comply would mean the government would use the establishments exclusively as warming halls.^[55]
• The laws ofNew Zealand were formally extended toAntarctica asGovernor-GeneralJohn Jellicoe issued an order applying jurisdiction to theRoss Dependency.^{[citation needed]}
• Died:Ernst Augustus of Hanover, 78, Crown Prince of Hanover from 1851 until the kingdom's 1866 annexation by Prussia (b.1845). He had been the BritishDuke of Cumberland until he sided with Germany inWorld War I. Ernst, a great-grandson of Britain'sKing George III, had served as the head of the House of Hanover since 1878 after the death of the formerKing George V.^{[This paragraph needs citation(s)]}

• Germany stopped printing the essentially worthless "papiermark", which had been trading at the rate of 4,200,000,000,000 (4.2 trillion) marks to one U.S. dollar by mid-November^[58] and issued the newRentenmark, backed by the value of semi-annual property taxes and tied to the U.S. dollar with a 4.2 RM to US$1. The old marks were exchangeable at the rate of one new mark for every one trillion old marks.^{[citation needed]}
• California U.S. SenatorHiram Johnson announced that he would challenge PresidentCalvin Coolidge for the 1924Republican nomination for U.S. president. Johnson, unlike Coolidge, was staunchly opposed to U.S. entry into theWorld Court.^[59]
• The Soviet Union's Presidium approved the creation ofOGPU (Obyedinyonnoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye or Joint State Political Directorate), taking direct control of the Soviet domestic and foreign intelligence services from theNKVD and its GPU agency.^{[citation needed]}
• Wealthy arms manufacturerGustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, incarcerated by France during the occupation of the Ruhr, was released from prison after seven months confinement.^[53]
• Thefirst census ofAlbania was taken, limited to a numerical count without individual household details, was taken and showed that the Balkan kingdom had 814,380 residents, almost 52 percent of whom (421,618) were male.^{[citation needed]}
• Died:
  • Mohammad Yaqub Khan, 73-74,Emir of Afghanistan in 1879, known for surrendering the kingdom to the United Kingdom to end theSecond Anglo-Afghan War (b.1849)
  • George Neilson, 64, Scottish historian (b.1858)

• The British House of Commons was dissolved by King George V as Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin calleda snap election to be held on December 6, explaining he wanted a mandate before implementing a newprotectionist tariff policy.^[60][61]
• A Swiss jury acquittedMaurice Conradi on charges arising from the assassination ofVatslav Vorovsky. The verdict angered the Soviet Union.^[3]
• Benito Mussolini said in a Senate speech that "The Italian government cannot give its approval to any further occupation of German territory. One must have the courage to say that the German people cannot be destroyed. They are a people which has known civilization and which may tomorrow be an integral part of European civilization."^[62]
• Born:Kantha Rao, Indian film actor in more than 400 films, and producer; as Tadepalli Lakshmi Kantha Rao, inKodad,princely state of Hyderabad,British India (present-dayTelangana state,India) (d.2009)

• At least 17 crew were killed after theGerman steamerKronos struck a sea mine off of the coast of theEstonian island ofSaaremaa while sailing fromStettin toSaint Petersburg.^[63]
• Zev was awarded a controversial win over In Memoriam in a $30,000 horse race atChurchill Downs. Photographs and newsreel footage of the extremely close finish suggest that In Memoriam actually won by a nose.^[64][65]
• France'sCompagnie générale transsaharienne (CGT), charged with determining the best routes for travel across theSahara desert in North Africa, began its first expedition, traveling fromAdrar in French Algeria, toTessalit in theFrench Sudan (in what is nowMali, a distance of 550 miles (890 km). Led by LieutenantGeorges Estienne for the French Foreign Legion, the group of 11 reached its destination on November 30.^{[citation needed]}
• Born:
  • Aristides Pereira, Cape Verdean politician, served as the firstPresident of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991; inBoa Vista,Portuguese Cape Verde (present-dayCape Verde) (d.2011)
  • Mike Garcia, American baseball pitcher andERA leader in theAmerican League in 1949 and 1954; as Edward Miguel Garcia, inSan Gabriel, California,United States (d.1986)
  • Franz Kurowski, German author of histories and novels aboutWorld War II; in Hombruch,Dortmund,Germany (d.2011)
  • Margareta Sjöstedt, Swedish-born Austrian opera contralto; inStockholm,Sweden (d.2012)
• Died:Lewis H. Nash, 70-71, American engineer and inventor of theliquid-ring-vacuum pump (b. c.1852)

• Elections were held in theKingdom of Bulgaria for the 247 seats of the unicameral parliament, theNarodnо Sabranie. The newDemokraticheski Sgovor Party ("Democratic Alliance"), founded after theJune 9 overthrow of the government and led by Prime MinisterAleksandar Tsankov, won 200 seats and theBulgarian Agrarian National Union was second with 19 seats.^[66]
• TheParliament of Italy passed theAcerbo Law, automatically giving the first-place party in an election a two-thirds majority of seats as long as it received at least 25 percent of the vote. The remaining one-third of seats were to be shared among the other parties proportionally.^[67]
• All 14 of the crew of the American schoonerGrace N. Pendleton were killed when the ship broke up in a gale in the North Sea after departing Hamburg. Rescue boats were unable to reach crewmembers whom they saw clinging to the remains of the ship.^[68]
• Born:
  • Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut; inDerry, New Hampshire,United States (d.1998)
  • Ong Poh Lim, Malayan badminton star; inKuching,Sarawak,British Malaya (present-dayMalaysia) (d.2003)

Oklahoma's Governor Walton convicted, succeeded by Trapp

• In the U.S.,Oklahoma GovernorJack C. Walton was convicted by the state senate on eleven charges of corruption and abuse of power and removed from office.^[69][70]Martin E. Trapp, who had been acting governor while the trial had been conducted, was sworn in to fill the remainder of Walton's term.
• Born:
  • František Sláma, Czech cellist, inHerálec,Czechoslovakia (present-dayCzech Republic) (d.2004)
  • Jane Trahey, American businesswoman and advertising executive; inChicago,United States (d.2000)
• Died:John Wesley Gilbert, 60, African American archaeologist and Methodist missionary; died after a long illness (b.1863)

• The German mark was pegged to theRentenmark at a trillion to one, solving thehyperinflation crisis and returning Germany to thegold standard.^[58]
• U.S. patent no. 1,475,024 was granted to African-American inventorGarrett Morgan for the firstthree-position traffic light (with a red-amber-green signal for stop, caution and go respectively) still in use a century later. Morgan had applied for the patent on February 27, 1922.^[71]
• Born:
  • Nadine Gordimer, South African writer and 1991Nobel Prize laureate; inSprings,Transvaal Province,Union of South Africa (present-daySouth Africa) (d.2014)
  • Claude Lebey, French food critic who published the annualGuide Lebey of restaurants and bistros in Paris; inFontenay-le-Comte,Vendée département,France (d.2017)
• Died:
  • Rudolf Havenstein, 66, German lawyer and president of theReichsbank (b.1857)
  • Denny Barry, 40, Irish Republican and inmate at theCurragh Camp prison; died on the 35th day of ahunger strike (b.1883)

• Three weeks after having been removed from office by German ChancellorGustav Stresemann as premier of Germany'sFree State of Saxony,Erich Zeigner was arrested on charges of corruption while in office.^{[citation needed]}
• Frank Goddard defeatedJack Bloomfield at theRoyal Albert Hall to reclaim the vacantBritish heavyweight boxing title.^[72]
• Born:Big John Greer, American blues saxophonist and singer; inHot Springs, Arkansas, United States (d.1972)^{[citation needed]}

• Stage performerMabelle Corey was granted a divorce from industrialistWilliam Ellis Corey in a Paris court.^[73]
• Born:
  • Arthur Hiller, Canadian television and film director known forLove Story (1970),Silver Streak (1976) andOutrageous Fortune (1987); inEdmonton,Canada (d.2016)
  • Hanna Maron, German-born Israeli actress and comedian who had the longest career in acting, working for 87 years between 1927 and 2014; as Hanna Meierzak, inBerlin,Germany (d.2014)
  • Victor Papanek, Austrian-born American designer, author of the influentialDesign for the Real World; inVienna,Austria (d.1998)
• Died:Andy O'Sullivan, Irish Republican Army intelligence officer, became the third, and last prisoner to die after participating in thehunger strikes in Irish prisons. O'Sullivan's death atMountjoy Prison, after 40 days of not eating, followed those ofJoseph Whitty at Mountjoy on September 2 andDenny Barry on November 21 atCurragh Camp. The strike was called off the next day and the 22 survivors received medical attention.

• Regular radio broadcasting began inAustralia as the station2SB launched its services at 8:00 in the evening inSydney.^[74] The station, now with the call letters 2BL, is now branded as ABC Radio Sydney and is the flagship station of theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation's radio network.
• Gustav Stresemann resigned as German Chancellor after losing avote of confidence, 230 to 155.^[75]
• TheCommunist Party of Germany was banned following theHamburg Uprising, along with the National Socialist Party and the Nationalist Party.^[76][77][78]
• Born:
  • Krzysztof Boruń, Polish physicist and science fiction author; inCzęstochowa,Poland (d.2000)
  • Peter Elias, U.S. pioneer ininformation theory who introduced theconvolutional code and thebinary erasure channel; inNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United States (d.2001)^{[citation needed]}
  • Billy Haughton, American harness racing driver and horse trainer, known for winning theHambletonian Stakes four times; as William Haughton, inGloversville, New York, United States (d.1986)^{[citation needed]}
  • Robert Zajonc, Polish social psychologist; inŁódź,Poland (d.2008)^{[citation needed]}
  • Julien J. LeBourgeois, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, served as thePresident of the Naval War College from 1974 to 1977; inSouthern Pines, North Carolina, United States (d.2012)^{[citation needed]}
• Died:
  • Urmuz, 40, Romanian avant-garde author; committed suicide by shooting himself (b.1883)^{[citation needed]}
  • Oscar Marx, 57, American politician, served as theMayor of Detroit from 1913 to 1918; died after an illness of several months (b.1866)^[79]

• Foreign ministers of the kingdoms ofRomania andYugoslavia reached an agreement inBelgrade for an exchange of territories, with Romania cedingPardanj,Modoš,Šurjan,Crivobara andVeliki Gaj to the Serbian SR in Yugoslavia, and Yugoslavia ceding Cherestur,Beba Veche,Ciorda,Iam andJimbolia to Romania.^{[citation needed]}
• The1923 college football season came to an end in the United States as two teams from theBig Nine Conference (now the Big Ten) both finishing unbeaten, untied, and later to be recognized retroactively by the NCAA as national champions. TheFighting Illini of the University of Illinois, with star halfbackRed Grange, defeated Ohio State University, 9 to 0, at Columbus, Ohio to finish with a record of 8-0-0. TheWolverines of the University of Michigan, who had beaten Ohio State 23-0 earlier in the season, beat Minnesota at home, 10 to 0 to finish 8-0-0 as well. Michigan and Illinois, despite being in the same conference, had not been scheduled to play each other. Illinois would later be recognized retroactively (in 1943) by theHelms Athletic Foundation as the best team of 1923, while theNational Championship Foundation would select Illinois and Michigan together in 1980.
• TheArmy–Navy Game ended in a 0–0 tie before 66,000 fans came out to watch the game which was played under muddy conditions at thePolo Grounds in New York City.^[80]
• The newGovernor of Oklahoma,Martin E. Trapp, came out in support of an act regulating secret organizations such as theKu Klux Klan.^[81]
• Born:Anthony Carollo, American mobster and head of theNew Orleans crime family from 1990 until his death; inNew Orleans,United States (d.2007)

• German PresidentFriedrich Ebert askedHeinrich Albert to become chancellor and form a cabinet.^[82] Nationalist members of the Reichstag responded by announcing that they would not approve him as Chancellor.^[83]
• The first, and only NFL game in which a team finished with exactly four points was played, as theRacine Legion ofRacine, Wisconsin) defeated theChicago Cardinals, 10 to 4. The Cardinals' scoring came on twosafeties, and they had a 2 to 0 lead at half time.^[84]
• Born:Mauno Koivisto, Finnish politician, served as thePresident of Finland from 1982 to 1994, and as Prime Minister from 1968 to 1970 and 1979 to 1982; inTurku,Finland (d.2017)

• The comedy playMeet the Wife, starringMary Boland, opened on Broadway.^{[citation needed]}
• Born:
  • Pat Phoenix, English actress and sex symbol known for being in the original cast ofCoronation Street; as Patricia Manfield, inFallowfield,Lancashire,England (d.1986)
  • V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer; as Venkatarama Pandit Krishnamurthy, inMysore,Kingdom of Mysore,British India (present-dayKarnataka,India) (d.2014)
  • Tom Hughes, Australian barrister and politician, served as theAttorney-General of Australia from 1969 to 1971; inRose Bay, New South Wales,Australia (d.2024)

• George H. Greenhalgh filed the patent application for the first automotiveoil filter. Greehalgh said in his application, "This invention relates to filters and particularly to filters adapted to be used for removing deleterious matter from oil or other liquids, as for example from lubricants in the lubricating systems of internal combustion engines or other devices." Ernest J. Sweetland, the patent assignee, would market the device as the Purolator (a trademark based on the phrasepureoillater), d. U.S. patent No. 1,721,250 would be awarded on July 16, 1929.^[85]
• In theMadras Presidency, a province ofBritish India that had been granted limited self-rule by the imperial government in 1920, opposition leaderC. R. Reddy introduced a motion of no confidence in an attempt to dislodge Chief MinisterPanaganti Ramarayaningar, whose Justice Party had won theNovember 10 elections for the 98-memberMadras Legislative Council. The motion failed, with only 44 in favor and 65 against.^{[citation needed]}
• Friedrich Ebert turned toAdam Stegerwald to become chancellor afterHeinrich Albert was unable to form a government.^[86]
• Born:
  • Antonie Hegerlíková, Czech stage, film and television actress whose career spanned more than 60 years from 1943 to 2004; inBratislava,Czechoslovakia (present-daySlovakia) (d.2012)
  • Duilio Marzio, Argentine stage and film actor; as Duilio Bruno Perruccio La Stell, inBuenos Aires,Argentine (d.2013)
  • J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., African American child prodigy and nuclear scientist; inChicago,United States (d.2011)

• TheRhine Republic came to an end asJosef Friedrich Matthes announced that he had dissolved the separatist government that had first been proclaimed in the occupied Rhineland on October 21.^[87]
• TheAndhra Bank began operations after being founded byBhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya and the RajaYarlagadda Sivarama Prasad. It was one of the largest Indian-owned banks inIndia until it was acquired by theUnion Bank of India in 2020. The original location was inMachilipatnam in theMadras Presidency (now the state ofAndhra Pradesh).^[88]
• Adam Stegerwald notified PresidentEbert that he was unable to form a cabinet.^[89]
• TheDavid Belasco andTom Cushing stage productionLaugh, Clown, Laugh! opened at theBelasco Theatre on Broadway, starringLionel Barrymore andIrene Fenwick.^[90]
• Born:GeneralSosthène Fernandez, Cambodian officer and politician, served as the Commander-in-Chief of theKhmer National Armed Forces from 1970 to 1975; inPhnom Penh,French protectorate of Cambodia,French Indochina (present-dayCambodia) (d.2006)^{[citation needed]}

• Wilhelm Marx accepted an offer from PresidentEbert to form a cabinet.^[91]
• The German comedy filmThe Little Napoleon was released.^{[citation needed]}Marlene Dietrich made her film debut in a small role.
• Born:Frank Reynolds, American TV journalist, anchorman forABC Evening News and later forABC World News Tonight; inEast Chicago, Indiana,United States (d.1983)

Chancellor picks Albert, Stegerwald and Marx

• Wilhelm Marx became the newChancellor of Germany after neither Heinrich Albert or Adam Stegerwald were able to form a government.^[92]
• Warren T. McCray, Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana, was indicted on 192 charges of corruption by a grand jury inIndianapolis.^[93]
• Two committees were established to examine Germany's capability to payreparations.^[3]
• Died:
  • Martha Mansfield, 24, American stage and silent film actress; died one day after suffering third-degree burns after her costume caught fire (b.1899).^[94][95][96]
  • John Maclean, 44, Scottish nationalist and socialist; collapsed while giving a speech outdoors inGlasgow and died of pneumonia (b.1879)
  • Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn, 77, British lawyer, judge and politician, served asLord Chancellor of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1912 (b.1846)

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