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Events from the year1923 in the United States.

• President:

Warren G. Harding (R-Ohio) (until August 2)

Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts) (starting August 2)

• Vice President:

Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts) (until August 2)

vacant (starting August 2)

• Chief Justice:William Howard Taft (Ohio)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
• Senate Majority Leader:Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts)
• Congress:67th (until March 4),68th (starting March 4)

• January 1–7 – TheRosewood massacre, a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town, takes place inRosewood, Florida.
• January 15 –William W. Brandon is sworn in as the 37thgovernor of Alabama replacingThomas Kilby.^[1]
• January 18 –Elon College's campus inNorth Carolina is destroyed by a fire.
• February 5 –United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind: The Supreme Court decides thatBhagat Singh Thind cannot become a naturalized U.S. citizen because, as aPunjabiSikh, he is not a "white person".
• February 23 – TheAmerican Law Institute is incorporated.
• March 1 – TheUSSConnecticut is decommissioned.
• March 2 – The first issue ofTime magazine is published.
• March 23 – Thegovernor of Oklahoma signs House Bill 197 with the Montgomery amendment outlawing thetheory of evolution in public school textbooks purchased by the state, the first anti-Darwinian legislation passed in the U.S.^[2]

• April 1 –Safety Last!, a silent romantic comedy film starringHarold Lloyd, is released.
• April 4 –Warner Bros. Film Studio is formally incorporated in the United States, as Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., byJack L. Warner,Harry Warner,Sam Warner andAlbert Warner.
• April 6 –Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, "Chimes Blues", withKing 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 inSacramento, California, by an itinerant Mexican-American serial arsonist.^[3]
• April 18 – The firstYankee Stadium opens its doors inthe Bronx,New York City.
• May 9 – SoutheasternMichigan 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 atConey Island officially opened.^[5]
• May 27 – TheKu Klux Klan defies a law requiring publication of its members.

• July 13 – TheHollywood Sign is inaugurated inCalifornia (originally readingHollywoodland).
• August 2 – Vice PresidentCalvin Coolidge becomes the 30thpresident of the United States, upon the death of PresidentWarren G. Harding.
• September 3 –Illustrated Daily News first published inLos Angeles byCornelius Vanderbilt IV.
• September 4 – TheUnited States Navy's first home-built rigidairshipUSSShenandoah makes her first flight atNaval Air Station Lakehurst (New Jersey); she contains most of the world's extracted reserves ofhelium at this time (named and commissioned October 10).^[6]
• September 8 –Honda Point Disaster: SevenU.S. Navydestroyers run aground off theCalifornia coast.
• September 17 –1923 Berkeley Fire: Berkeley, California erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of theUniversity of California.
• September 18–26 – Newspaper printers strike inNew York City.
• September 24 –Rowan University opens.
• September 29 –First American Track & Field championships for women, in New Jersey

• October 1 – Mississippi something Road Signs Act came into effect.
• October 15 – TheNew York Yankees defeat theNew York Giants (baseball), 4 games to 2, to win their first World Series Title.
• October 16 –Roy andWalt Disney foundThe Walt Disney Company.
• October 19 –War Resisters League organized byJessie Wallace Hughan.^[7]
• December 10 – Sigma Alpha Kappa is founded atLoyola University New Orleans, making it the first social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the U.S.
• December 20 – BEGGARS Fraternity (the second social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded by nine men, who have secured permission to do so from the Pope.

• Soledad C. Chacón takes office asSecretary of State of New Mexico; all subsequent holders of this office until December 2015 will also be women.
• TheModeration League of New York becomes part of the movement for therepeal of Prohibition in the U.S.
• Rainbow trout introduced into the upperFirehole River inYellowstone National Park.

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)^[8]
• Prohibition (1920–1933)^[9]
• Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

• January 1 –Daniel Gorenstein, mathematician (died1992)
• January 3 –Hank Stram, American football coach and broadcaster (died2005)
• January 5
  • Virginia Halas McCaskey, American football executive (died2025)
  • Sam Phillips, record producer (died2003)
• January 16 –Anthony Hecht, poet (died2004)
• January 29
  • Jack Burke Jr., golfer and coach (died2024)
  • Paddy Chayefsky, writer (died1981)
• January 31 –Norman Mailer, writer (died2007)
• February 2
  • James Dickey, poet and author (died1997)
  • Red Schoendienst, baseball player (died2018)
  • Liz Smith, gossip columnist (died2017)
• February 13
  • James Abdnor, U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1981 to 1987 (died2012)
  • Chuck Yeager, pilot (died2020)
• February 18 –Perry J. Dahl, World War II flying ace (died2024)
• February 20 –Helen Murray Free, chemist and educator (died2021)
• February 28
  • Jean Carson, actress (died2005)
  • Charles Durning, actor (died2012)
• March 2 –Bob Chinn, restaurateur (d.2022)
• March 9
  • James L. Buckley, judge and U.S. Senator from New York from 1971 to 1977 (died2023)
  • Wayne B. Warrington Sr., Arizona civil servant (died1989)^[10]
• March 10 –Val Logsdon Fitch, nuclear physicist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physics (died2015)
• March 12
  • Helen Parrish, actress (died1959)
  • Mae Young, wrestler (died2014)
• March 14 –Diane Arbus, photographer (died1971)
• March 27 –Jack O'Neill, businessman (O'Neill surfwear & equipment) (died2017)
• April 1
  • Leora Dana, actress (died1983)
  • Bobby Jordan, actor (died1965)
• April 3 –Daniel Hoffman, poet (died2013)
• April 13
  • Don Adams, actor and director (died2005)^[11]
  • Stanley Tanger, businessman and philanthropist, founder of theTanger Factory Outlet Centers (died2010)
• April 23 –Walter Pitts, logician and cognitive psychologist (died1969)
• April 25
  • Timothy S. Healy, Jesuit priest and academic administrator (died1992)
  • Albert King, blues guitarist and singer (died 1992)
• May 1 –Joseph Heller, novelist (died1999)
• May 16 –Merton Miller, economist, recipient of theNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (died2000)
• May 27 –Henry Kissinger,United States Secretary of State, recipient of the1973 Nobel Peace Prize (died2023)
• June 2 –Lloyd Shapley, mathematician, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (died2016)
• June 8 –Malcolm Boyd, priest and author (died2015)
• June 19 –Geri M. Joseph, diplomat and political figure (died2023)
• June 22 –John Oldham, basketball player (died2020)
• July 13 –Ashley Bryan, children's book writer and illustrator (died2022)
• July 14 –Robert Zildjian, musical instrument manufacturer (Sabian) (died2013)
• July 22
  • Bob Dole, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1969 to 1996, presidential candidate (died2021)
  • The Fabulous Moolah, wrestler (died2007)
• July 31 –Stephanie Kwolek, polymer chemist (died2014)
• August 3 –Jean Hagen, actress (died1977)^[12]
• August 10
  • Rhonda Fleming, screen actress (died2020)
  • David H. Rodgers, politician (died2017)
• August 20 –Jim Reeves, country singer (died1964)
• September 1 –Rocky Marciano, boxer (died1969)
• September 3
  • Glen Bell, entrepreneur, founder ofTaco Bell (died2010)
  • Mort Walker, cartoonist, creator ofBeetle Bailey (died2018)
• September 9
  • Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, virologist (died2008)
  • Charles Grier Sellers, historian (died2021)^[13]
• September 17 –Hank Williams, country musician (died1953)
• September 18 –Al Quie, politician (died2023)
• September 26 –Jack Oliver, geophysicist (died2011)
• October 1 –Babe McCarthy, basketball coach (died1975)
• October 2 –Hershel W. Williams,Medal of Honour recipient (died2022)
• October 4 –Charlton Heston, film actor (died2008)
• October 20 –Robert Craft, orchestral conductor (died2015)
• October 23
  • Ned Rorem, composer (died2022)
  • Frank Sutton, actor (died2022)
• October 27 –Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist (died1997)
• November 1 –Ann B. Walker, journalist and radio broadcaster (died2025)
• November 3 –Charles Nolte, actor (died2010)
• November 6 –Robert P. Griffin, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1966 to 1979 (died2015)
• November 8 –Jack Kilby, electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died2005)
• November 9 –James Schuyler, poet (died1991)
• November 10 –Robert Carrier, chef (died2006 in France)
• November 18
  • Ted Stevens, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009 (died2010)
  • Alan Shepard, astronaut (died1998)
• November 23
  • Daniel Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1963 to 1969 (died2007)
  • Billy Haughton, harness racer and trainer (died1986)
• November 26 –Nat Allbright, sports commentator (died2011)
• December 2 –Maria Callas, singer (died1977)
• December 10 –Harold Gould, actor (died2010)
• December 11
  • Betsy Blair, film actress (died2009)
  • Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-American businesswoman, co-founder ofCoach, Inc. (died2013)
• December 12 –Bob Barker, game show host (died2023)
• December 13
  • Philip W. Anderson, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died2020)
  • Larry Doby, baseball player (died2003)
• December 23 –James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral and vice presidential candidate (died2005)
• December 24 –George Patton IV, U.S. Army general (died2004)
• December 29
  • Dina Merrill, actress, heiress, socialite and philanthropist (died2017)
  • Mike Nussbaum, actor and director (died2023)

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• January 1 –Willie Keeler, baseball player (born1872)
• January 18 –Wallace Reid, actor (born1891)
• February 6 –Edward Emerson Barnard, astronomer (born1857)
• February 14 –Charles Henry Turner, African American entomologist (born1867)
• February 15 –Minnie Willis Baines, author (born1845)^[14]
• February 24 –Edward W. Morley, scientist (born1838)
• February 26
  • Walter B. Barrows, naturalist (born1855)
  • George Clement Perkins, U.S. Senator from California from 1893 to 1915 (born1839)
• March 3 –Melancthon J. Briggs, lawyer and politician (born1846)
• March 6 –Joseph McDermott, actor (born1878)
• March 15 –Goat Anderson, baseball player (born1880)
• April 6 –Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist and anthropologist (born 1838)
• April 11 –Mary Treat, naturalist (born1830)
• April 28 –Knute Nelson, Governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1895 to 1923 (born1843 in Norway)
• August 2 –Warren G. Harding, 29thpresident of the United States from 1921 to 1923 (born1865)
• August 10 –Laura Redden Searing, deaf poet and journalist (born1839)
• October 19 –Eleanor Norcross, painter (born1854)
• October 23 –Hannah Johnston Bailey, temperance advocate and suffragist (born 1839)
• November 11 –Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, biographer (born1858)
• November 17 –Mary Bigelow Ingham, author, educator, and religious worker (born1832)
• December 28 –Frank Hayes, actor (born1871)

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