1923: On this day in history

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Birthdays

January 1 - Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
January 1 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach (d. 2005)
January 3 - Charles Tingwell, Australian actor
January 5 - Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
January 6 - Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
January 7 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
January 8 - Larry Storch, American actor
January 8 - Giorgio Tozzi, American bass
January 8 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
January 8 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008)
January 11 - Carroll Shelby, American race car driver
January 12 - Ira Hayes, American soldier (d. 1955)
January 13 - Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
January 15 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
January 15 - Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician
January 16 - Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer
January 16 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
January 17 - Carol Raye, Australian actress
January 19 - Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
January 19 - Jean Stapleton, American actress
January 20 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
January 21 - Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995)
January 23 - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
January 23 - Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach
January 25 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
January 25 - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998)
January 26 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress
January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
January 29 - Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
January 31 - Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
February 2 - James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997)
February 2 - Bonita Granville, American actress (d. 1988)
February 2 - Red Schoendienst, American baseball player and manager
February 2 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
February 3 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer
February 4 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor
February 5 - Claude King, American musician
February 7 - Martha Holmes, American photographer (d. 2006)
February 9 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)
February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director and designer
February 12 - Chaskel Besser, Orthodox rabbi
February 13 - Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician (d. 2002)
February 13 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese violinist (d. 2003)
February 13 - Chuck Yeager, American fighter and test pilot
February 15 - Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist
February 20 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (d. 1985)
February 23 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
February 24 - David Soyer, American cellist
February 27 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
February 28 - Charles Durning, American actor
March 1 - Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer and editor (d. 1999)
March 2 - Orrin Keepnews, American writer and critic
March 2 - Robert H. Michel, American politician
March 3 - Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005)
March 3 - Doc Watson, American musician
March 4 - Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer
March 5 - Laurence Tisch, American investor
March 6 - Ed McMahon, American television personality
March 9 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist
March 10 - Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel Prize laureate
March 12 - Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater
March 12 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005)
March 12 - Wally Schirra, American astronaut (d. 2007)
March 12 - Mae Young, American professional wrestler
March 13 - William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989)
March 14 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
March 15 - Charles Wheeler, British journalist (d. 2008)
March 18 - Andy Granatelli, American motorsports entrepreneur
March 19 - Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974)
March 19 - Henry Morgentaler, Canadian gynecologist
March 20 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani Author
March 21 - Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
March 21 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yogav
March 22 - Marcel Marceau, world renown French Mime (d. 2007)
March 24 - Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
March 25 - Bonnie Guitar, American singer
March 26 - Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
March 26 - Bob Elliott, American comedian
March 27 - Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)
March 27 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
April 2 - G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician
April 2 - Clifford Scott Green, American Federal Judge (d. 2007)
April 2 - Gloria Henry, American actress
April 5 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995)
April 5 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)
April 8 - George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
April 8 - Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997)
April 10 - Roger Gaillard, Haitian historian and novelist (d. 2000)
April 11 - George J. Maloof, Sr.
April 12 - Ann Miller, American actor and dancer (d. 2004)
April 13 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
April 14 - Roberto DeVicenzo, Argentine golf player
April 17 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (d. 1994)
April 17 - Harry Reasoner, American journalist (d. 1991)
April 17 - Solly Hemus, American baseball player
April 20 - Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
April 20 - Tito Puente, American musician (d. 2000)
April 21 - John Mortimer, English barrister and writer
April 22 - Avis Bunnage, English actress (d. 1990)
April 22 - Bettie Page, American model
April 22 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006)
April 23 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
April 23 - Avram Davidson, American writer (d. 1993)
April 23 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler
April 25 - Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006)
April 25 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
April 30 - Percy Heath, American jazz musician (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2005)
April 30 - Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)
April 30 - Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (d. 2008)
May 1 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (d. 1999)
May 3 - Ralph Hall, American politician
May 3 - George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor
May 4 - Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit)
May 4 - Stanley Biber, American physician
May 4 - Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian
May 4 - Godfrey Quigley, British actor (d. 1994)
May 4 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author
May 5 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (d. 2003)
May 6 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor
May 7 - Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
May 9 - Johnny Grant, American radio personality
May 10 - Heydar Aliyev, Ex-President and Leader of Azerbaijan Republic (d. 2003)
May 14 - Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
May 14 - Mrinal Sen, Indian film director
May 15 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
May 15 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
May 15 - Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
May 16 - Merton Miller, American economist
May 18 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
May 18 - Jean-Louis Roux, French Canadian actor and artistic director
May 21 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
May 21 - Ara Parseghian, American football coach
May 23 - Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist
May 23 - Walter Wolfrum, German fighter pilot
May 24 - Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986)
May 26 - James Arness, American actor
May 26 - Roy Dotrice, British actor
May 27 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State
May 27 - Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
May 28 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
May 28 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1998)
May 31 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
June 3 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
June 4 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
June 5 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
June 5 - Daniel Pinkham, American composer
June 6 - V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
June 7 - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
June 8 - Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author
June 10 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991)
June 12 - Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007)
June 16 - Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962)
June 17 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)
June 21 - Jacques Hébert, French Canadian author
June 25 - Nicholas Mosley, British writer
June 26 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
June 27 - Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994)
June 28 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
June 29 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
July 2 - Wis³awa Szymborska, Polish writer
July 4 - Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
July 6 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland
July 8 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
July 10 - Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
July 10 - Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
July 10 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
July 10 - John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman
July 14 - Dale Robertson, American actor
July 14 - Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (d. 1989)
July 16 - Chris Argyris, American educator
July 17 - John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
July 18 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
July 19 - William A. Rusher, American columnist
July 20 - Stanis³aw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
July 21 - Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist
July 22 - Bob Dole, American politician
July 22 - Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
July 22 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
July 23 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
July 23 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)
July 23 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
July 25 - Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
July 25 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
July 26 - Jan Berenstain, American author
July 26 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (d. 2002)
July 27 - Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
July 29 - Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification
July 29 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
July 31 - Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born record company executive (d. 2006)
July 31 - Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
August 2 - Shimon Peres, Israeli politician.
August 3 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity
August 4 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
August 4 - Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer
August 5 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore
August 6 - Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
August 10 - Rhonda Fleming, American actress
August 10 - Fred Ridgway, Former England cricketer
August 11 - Stan Chambers, American television reporter
August 12 - John Holt, West Indian cricketer (d. 1997)
August 15 - Rose Marie, American actress
August 16 - Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian playwright
August 18 - Jenni Irani, Indian cricketer (d. 1982)
August 18 - Sadashiv Shinde, Indian cricketer (d. 1955)
August 20 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
August 23 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
August 24 - Arthur Jensen, American psychologist
August 26 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
August 29 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
August 29 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
August 29 - Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
August 30 - Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
August 30 - Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969)
August 30 - Vic Seixas, American tennis player
September 1 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
September 1 - Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
September 2 - Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
September 3 - Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey)
September 5 - Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia, (d. 1970)
September 7 - Peter Lawford, British-born American actor (d. 1984)
September 9 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist
September 13 - Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
September 15 - Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979)
September 16 - Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore
September 17 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
September 18 - Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
September 18 - Queen Anne of Romania,
September 20 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
September 22 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
September 24 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
September 24 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
September 26 - Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
September 28 - John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch
September 28 - William Windom, American actor
September 29 - Stan Berenstain, American children's author (d. 2005)
October 3 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
October 4 - Charlton Heston, American actor and former president of the NRA (d. 2008)
October 5 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
October 5 - Philip Berrigan, American peace activist (d. 2002)
October 5 - Glynis Johns, British actress
October 5 - Bill Wirtz, longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner (d. 2007)
October 7 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
October 7 - Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps (d. 1945)
October 9 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor
October 10 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor
October 12 - Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager
October 13 - Cyril Shaps, English actor (d. 2003)
October 13 - Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
October 15 - Italo Calvino. Italian writer, (d. 1985)
October 16 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
October 16 - Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
October 17 - Charles McClendon, American football coach (d. 2001)
October 17 - Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)
October 20 - Robert Craft, American conductor
October 22 - Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
October 23 - Aslam Farrukhi, Pakistani scholar and poet
October 23 - Ned Rorem, American composer
October 23 - Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
October 24 - Denise Levertov, English-born poet (d. 1997)
October 25 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
October 27 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
October 29 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
October 29 - Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete
November 1 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
November 1 - Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
November 3 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
November 4 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
November 8 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer
November 9 - Alice Coachman, American athlete
November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965)
November 12 - Vicco von Bülow, German film director
November 17 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
November 17 - Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm
November 17 - Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
November 18 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
November 18 - Ted Stevens, American politician
November 20 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
November 22 - Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
November 22 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
November 23 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
November 23 - Daniel Brewster, American democrat (d. 2007)
November 23 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
November 25 - Mauno Koivisto, former president of Finland
November 26 - Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
November 28 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
December 1 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral and CIA director
December 1 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
December 2 - Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
December 7 - Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986)
December 8 - Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
December 10 - Harold Gould, American actor
December 11 - Betsy Blair, American actress
December 12 - Bob Barker, American television game show host
December 12 - Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver
December 13 - Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist
December 13 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003)
December 14 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
December 15 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist
December 15 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (d. 2002)
December 15 - Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and statesman
December 17 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
December 19 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
December 21 - Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan
December 23 - Günther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
December 23 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
December 23 - James Stockdale, American admiral (d. 2005)
December 23 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (d. 1954)
December 24 - George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
December 24 - Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969)
December 25 - Rene Girard, French historian

Deaths

January 3 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
January 9 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
January 11 - King Constantine I of Greece, (b. 1868)
January 13 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
January 14 - Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
January 18 - Wallace Reid, Actor (b. 1891)
January 23 - Max Nordau, Austrian author
January 31 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869)
February 10 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist
February 11 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847)
February 22 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
March 8 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
March 8 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
March 27 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
April 4 - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
April 5 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
April 25 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
May 14 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
June 10 - Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
July 23 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
August 2 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
August 5 - Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
August 19 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
September 12 - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
October 30 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
November 5 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist (b. 1880)
November 23 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
December 1 - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
December 12 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
December 26 - Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (b. 1868)
December 27 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832)

Events

January 1 - Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR.
January 2 - United States Interior Secretary Albert Fall resigns over the Teapot Dome scandal.
January 9 - Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its reparation payments.
February 3 - The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
March 3 - TIME magazine is published for the first time.
March 22 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
March 24 - Greece becomes a republic.
April 5 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
April 6 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
April 15 - Insulin becomes generally available for use by diabetics.
April 18 - Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
April 23 - Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter.
May 23 - Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.
June 9 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
June 18 - Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
June 27 - Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
July 13 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
July 24 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
August 3 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.
August 6 - Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
August 23 - Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
September 1 - The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
September 4 - Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
September 8 - Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
September 9 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).
September 13 - Military coup in Spain
September 14 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
October 13 - Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
October 16 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
October 29 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
October 31 - The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia.
November 8 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
November 9 - In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
November 14 - Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.
November 20 - Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
December 27 - Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
December 31 - The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.

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