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The Left Opposition ( Russian: Левая оппозиция, romanized : Levaya oppozitsiya) was a faction within the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1923 to 1927 [1] headed de facto by Leon Trotsky. The Left Opposition was formed by Trotsky to mount a struggle against the bureaucratic degeneration that began within the party ...
550 Madison Avenue is a postmodern skyscraper on Madison Avenue between 55th Street and 56th Street in New York City. Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee with associate architect Simmons Architects, the building was completed in 1984. It is a 647-foot-tall (197-meter), 37-story office tower with a facade made of pink granite.
1924–25 →. The 1923–24 British Home Championship was an international football tournament played during the 1923–24 season between the British Home Nations. It was won by the excellent Welsh team of the early 1920s who achieved a whitewash of the other three home nations over the tournament, scoring five goals for just one in return.
The year 1923 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Aeronautics [ edit ] January 17 (or 9) – First stable flight of the first rotorcraft , Juan de la Cierva 's Cierva C.4 autogyro , in Spain.
The mass hunger strikes of October/November 1923 saw several thousand of the Irish republican prisoners on hunger strikes in Irish prisons/internment camps across Ireland, protesting the continuation of internment without charge/trial, demanding immediate release or status as political prisoners. Previously, the Irish Free State government had ...
from the BBC programme Great Lives, 13 May 2008. [1] Christopher Nicholas Parsons CBE (10 October 1923 – 28 January 2020) was an English actor, straight man and radio and television presenter. He was the long-running presenter of the comedy radio show Just a Minute and hosted the game show Sale of the Century during the 1970s and early 1980s.
1978 – Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923) 1983 – Otto Messmer, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1892) 1986 – John Braine, English author (b. 1922) 1987 – André Masson, French soldier and painter (b. 1896) 1989 – Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
