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The Republic of Turkey was created after the overthrow of Sultan Mehmed VI by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1922 by the new Republican Parliament in 1923. This new regime delivered the coup de grâce to the Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the First World War .
Republican. At the opening of the 68th United States Congress, the members-elect of the House of Representatives held an election for Speaker of the House on December 3–5, 1923. Republican Frederick H. Gillett received a majority of the votes cast in the 9th ballot and was re-elected speaker. This was the first multiple ballot speaker ...
1923 – Aslam Farrukhi, Indian-Pakistani linguist, author, and scholar (d. 2016) 1923 – Ned Rorem, American composer and author (d. 2022) 1923 – Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974) 1924 – Arthur Brittenden, English journalist (d. 2015) 1925 Fred Shero, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1990)
July 1 – The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 comes into effect, banning all Chinese from entering Canada except for businessmen, diplomats, foreign students, and "special circumstances". July 16 – Howard Ferguson becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Ernest Charles Drury. August 18 – The Home Bank of Canada fails.
July 22, 1923 (Sunday) All but one the 32-member crew of the American oil tanker SS Swiftstar disappeared after the ship exploded and sank near the Colombian island of San Andrés while en route from the U.S. city of San Pedro, California to Fall River, Massachusetts, after passing through the Panama Canal.
Jack Trice. John G. Trice (May 12, 1902 – October 8, 1923) was an American college football player who became the first African-American athlete for Iowa State College. Trice died due to injuries suffered during a game against the University of Minnesota on October 6, 1923.
Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917 Bolshevik (1920) by Boris Kustodiev The New York Times headline from 9 November 1917. The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, or Bolshevik coup was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger ...
