1923 in the United States

1923 in the United States
Decades:	1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s
Years:	1920 1921 1922 – 1923 – 1924 1925 1926
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Events from the year 1923 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Warren G. Harding (Republican) (until August 2), Calvin Coolidge (Republican) (starting August 2)
• Vice President: Calvin Coolidge (Republican) (until August 2), vacant (starting August 2)
• Chief Justice: William Howard Taft
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
• Congress: 67th (until March 4), 68th (starting March 4)

Events

August 2: Calvin Coolidge becomes President following the death of Warren G. Harding

January–March

• February 5 – United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind: The Supreme Court decides that Bhagat Singh Thind cannot become a naturalized U.S. citizen because, as a Punjabi Sikh, he is not a "white person".
• March 1 – The USS Connecticut is decommissioned.
• March 2 – The first issue of Time magazine is published.
• March 23 – The governor of Oklahoma signs House Bill 197 with the Montgomery amendment outlawing the theory of evolution in public school textbooks purchased by the state, the first anti-Darwinian legislation passed in the U.S.^[1]

April–June

• April 18 – The first Yankee Stadium opens its doors in the Bronx, New York City.
• May 9 – Southeastern Michigan receives a record 6 inches (15 cm) of snow after temperatures plummeted from 62 °F (17 °C) to 34 °F (1 °C) degrees between 1 and 6 pm on the previous day.^[2]
• May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan defies a law requiring publication of its members.

July–September

• August 2 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, dies in office and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.
• September 4 – In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
• September 8 – Honda Point Disaster: Seven U.S. Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.
• September 17 – A major fire in Berkeley, California erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.
• September 18–26 – Newspaper printers strike in New York.

October–December

• October 16 – Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company.
• December 20 – The Beggars Fraternity is founded at Loyola University New Orleans (making it the first social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) by nine men who secured permission to do so from the Pope.

Undated

• The Moderation League of New York becomes part of the movement for the repeal of Prohibition in the United States.
• Rainbow Trout is introduced into the upper Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park
• The American Law Institute is established.

Ongoing

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
• Prohibition (1919–1933)
• Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Births

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• September 26 – John Ertle Oliver, geophysicist (died 2011)
• November 26 – Nat Allbright, sports commentator (died 2011)

Deaths

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References

External links

• Media related to 1923 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons