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Casualties. 105,385–142,800 deaths [9] [10] The Great Kantō earthquake (関東大地震, Kantō dai-jishin, Kantō ō-jishin) also known in Japanese as Kantō daishinsai (関東大震災) [11] [12] struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts ...
Kuok Khoon Hong (first cousin once removed) [1] Robert Kuok Hock Nien ( simplified Chinese: 郭鹤年; traditional Chinese: 郭鶴年; pinyin: Guō Hènián; Foochow Romanized: Guóh Hŏk-nièng; born 6 October 1923) is a Malaysian business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Since 1973, Kuok has lived in Hong Kong. [2]
Displays of fireworks, such as these over the Bosporus in 2007, take place across Turkey on Republic Day. Republic Day ( Turkish: Cumhuriyet Bayramı) is a public holiday in Turkey commemorating the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey, on 29 October 1923. The annual celebrations start at 1:00 pm on 28 October and continue for 35 hours.
Ralph Gordon Stanton (21 October 1923 – 21 April 2010) was a Canadian mathematician, teacher, scholar, and pioneer in mathematics and computing education. As a researcher, he made important contributions in the area of discrete mathematics; and as an educator and administrator, was also instrumental in founding the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, and for establishing ...
Thomas Noel (born 9 March 1958 – 16 November 2022), FRICS. Edward Andrew Noel (born 22 October 1960); he married, firstly, Lavinia Jane Bingham, daughter of Commander George Edward Bingham, but divorced with no issue. He married, secondly, Sarah Kate Yeats-Brown, great-granddaughter of Montague Yeats-Brown. They have one son. Lord ...
September 16, 1923 (Sunday) The Amakasu Incident occurred in Japan when two anarchists, Sakae Ōsugi and Noe Itō, were beaten to death, along with Sakae's 6-year-old nephew Munekazu Tachibana, by a detachment of the Japanese military police, the Kenpeitai, under the command of Masahiko Amakasu.
Rudolf Oeser (DDP), Minister of Transport. The second Stresemann cabinet, headed by Chancellor Gustav Stresemann of the German People's Party (DVP), was the ninth democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic. It took office on 6 October 1923 when it replaced the first Stresemann cabinet, which had resigned on 3 October over internal ...
