
1923
- Earthquake in Japan destroys the centers of Tokyo and Yokohama
- Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich fails
- Willy Messerschmitt establishes his aircraft factory
- Warren G. Harding dies - succeeded by Calvin Coolidge
- Dance marathons
- The Charleston dance craze
- Felis Salten's Bambi
- Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id
- Emily Post's book of etiquette
- Jacob Schick patents the electric razor
- 1st TB vaccine
- 1st whooping-cough vaccine
- George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
- Film - "Robin Hood" with Douglas Fairbanks
- Norman Mailer, Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres, Charleton Heston, Roy Lichtenstein,
Alan B. Shepard, and Maria Callas born
- Gustave Eifel, Pancho Villa, Warren G. Harding, and Sarah Bernhardt die
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