What Happened in October 1923

Historical Events

Oct 2 British occuping army leaves Constantinople
Oct 4 Young Stribling ostensibly beats Mike McTigue on points in Columbus, Georgia for world light-heavyweight boxing title; referee Harry Ertle later calls fight a draw, claims coerced by promoters to award fight to Stribling; McTigue retains title

Cepheid Variable

Oct 5 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star

Oct 6 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
Oct 6 US Lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
Oct 6 USSR adopts experimental calendar
Oct 7 Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
Oct 10 NY Giants & NY Yankees become first teams to play each other in 3 consecutive Baseball World Series; Giants win Game 1, 5-4; first WS game played at Yankee Stadium
Oct 10 Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
Oct 11 A pair of Babe Ruth home runs in the 4th and 5th innings is the difference; NY Yankees beat NY Giants, 4-2 at the Polo Grounds to tie World Series, 1-1
Oct 11 German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
Oct 13 Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
Oct 15 American pianist Henry Cowell sparks a riot among audience members at Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, Germany - some tried to physically stop his avant-garde performance, while others defended him
Oct 15 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat NY Giants, 6-4 in Game 6 at the Polo Grounds for a 4-2 series win; Yankees first World Series victory

Event of Interest

Oct 15 Hans Luther presents a plan for currency reform to stabilize the German Mark during hyperinflation.

Oct 16 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
Oct 16 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
Oct 17 Catholic University of Nijmegen opens in the Netherlands

AL Prohibits Boxing

Oct 19 Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks

Founder of Baseball's American League Ban Johnson

Oct 19 Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter

Sports History

Oct 23 Legendary Yankees slugger Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a rival Giants uniform as NY beats Baltimore Orioles, 9-0 in a benefit game for former Giants owner John Day

Oct 23 US patent is issued to American inventor Sebastian Hinton for playground climbing structure popularly known as 'monkey bars' (No, 1471465) [1]
Oct 24 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship

Teapot Dome Scandal

Oct 25 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal

Oct 26 Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
Oct 26 Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
Oct 29 Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxony
Oct 29 Gibbs, Grey and Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild" (introducing "The Charleston") opens on Broadway, New York City
Oct 29 Kemal Atatürk declares Turkey a republic (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
Oct 29 Mustafa Kemal officially confirms Turkey as a republic (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), now commemorated annually as the Republic Day of Turkey
Oct 29 Textile strike against lower wages begins in Enschede, Netherlands
Oct 31 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees F begin at Marble Bar, Australia

Events in 1923

Famous Birthdays

Oct 2 Jack Dellal, British property investor and multi-millionaire (Allied Commercial Holdings), born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, (d. 2012)
Oct 3 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician, born in Vieille Case, Dominica (d. 2004)
Oct 3 Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Polish-American conductor (Minnesota Orchestra, 1960-79) and composer (Passacaglia Immaginaria), born in Lwów, Second Polish Republic (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 2017)

Charlton Heston (1923-2008)

Oct 4 American actor (The Ten Commandments; Ben-Hur; Planet of Apes), born in Wilmette, Illinois,

Oct 5 Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (Minister of Finance), born in Reykjavík, Iceland (d. 1994)
Oct 5 Bill Wirtz, American longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
Oct 5 Glynis Johns, British stage and screen Tony Award-winning actress and singer (Mary Poppins; A Little Night Music - "Send In The Clowns"; The Sundowners), born in Pretoria, South Africa (d. 2024) [1]
Oct 5 Philip Berrigan, American peace activist and Roman Catholic priest, born in Two Harbors, Minnesota (d. 2002)
Oct 5 Stig Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child), born in Älvkarleby, Uppsala County, Sweden (d. 1954)
Oct 6 Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (Memed, My Hawk), born in Hemite, Osmaniye, Ottoman Empire (d. 2015)
Oct 7 Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz", and convicted war criminal, born in Wrechen, Prussia, German Republic (d. 1945)
Oct 7 Jean-Paul Riopelle, French-Canadian painter (Vent du nord), sculptor (La Défaite), and Québécois member of Les Automatistes, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2002)
Oct 9 Donald Sinden, English actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba), born in St Budeaux, Plymouth, (d. 2014)
Oct 9 Helen Jones Woods, American jazz and swing trombone player (International Sweethearts of Rhythm), born in Meridian, Mississippi (d. 2020) [some sources give birthday as 14 November]
Oct 9 Ronald Tremain, New Zealand composer, born in Feilding, New Zealand (d. 1998)
Oct 10 Louis Gottlieb, American musician (The Limeliters), born in La Crescenta, California (d. 1996)
Oct 10 Murray Walker, English motorsport commentator and journalist (Formula 1: BBC 1976-96, ITV 1997-2001), born in Birmingham, England (d. 2021)
Oct 10 Nicholas Parsons, British presenter and actor described as "the ultimate quiz show host", born in Grantham, England (d. 2020)
Oct 12 Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager, born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
Oct 12 Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman and founder of Weight Watchers, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
Oct 13 Cyril Shaps, British actor, producer and voice artist (The Pianist), born in Highbury, London (d. 2003)
Oct 13 Dorothy Bolden, American civil and women's rights activist, and founder of the National Domestic Worker's Union of America, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2005)
Oct 13 Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2006)
Oct 15 Italo Calvino, Italian author (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba (d. 1985)
Oct 16 Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader, songwriter ("Strangers in the Night"; "Danke Schoen"), and record producer (The Beatles first recordings), born in Hamburg (d. 1980)
Oct 16 Linda Darnell, American actress (Unfaithfully Yours, A Letter to Three Wives), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1965)
Oct 17 Barney Kessel, American jazz and session guitarist (The Wrecking Crew), born in Muskogee, Oklahoma (d. 2004)
Oct 18 Eileen Sheridan, English cyclist (record road cyclist - Land’s End-John O’Groats time stood for 36 years), born in Coventry, England (d. 2023) [1]
Oct 18 Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian-Dutch artist, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2020)
Oct 20 Herschel Bernardi, American actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front), born in New York City (d. 1986)
Oct 20 Joe Minogue, British journalist (Guardian) (d. 1996)
Oct 20 Robert Craft, American conductor, writer and friend of Stravinsky, born in Kingston, New York (d. 2015)
Oct 22 Bert Trautmann, German soccer goalkeeper (Manchester City 508 games; FWA Footballer of the Year 1956), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 2013)
Oct 22 Pete Pihos, American Pro/College Football HOF end (Indiana University; 6 x Pro Bowl; 6 × First-team All-Pro; Philadelphia Eagles), born in Orlando, Florida (d. 2011)
Oct 23 Frank Sutton, American actor (Marty; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - "Sgt. Carter"), born in Clarksville, Tennessee (d. 1974)
Oct 23 Harold P. Warren, American film director (Manos: The Hands of Fate), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1985)
Oct 23 Ned Rorem, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra; Evidence of Things Not Seen), and author (The Paris Diary), born in Richmond, Indiana (d. 2022) [1]
Oct 24 Denise Levertov, American poet and essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin), born in Ilford, Essex, England (d. 1997)
Oct 25 Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2010)
Oct 25 Don Banks, Australian orchestral, jazz, and film score composer, born in South Melbourne, Australia (d. 1980)
Oct 25 Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (Mon oncle Antoine), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1990)
Oct 27 Ned Wertimer, American actor (The Jeffersons), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2013)
Oct 27 Roy Lichtenstein, Pop art painter (painted comic book panels), born in New York City (d. 1997)

Carl Djerassi (1923-2015)

Oct 29 Austrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill, born in Vienna, Austria

Oct 29 Dietrich Manicke, German composer, born in Wurzen, Saxony, Germany (d. 2013)
Oct 30 William Campbell, American character actor (Cannonball - "Jerry"; Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte: Dementia 13), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2011)
Oct 31 Hicks B. Waldron, Chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., born in Amsterdam, New York (d. 2017)

Born in 1923

Famous Weddings

Erich Maria Remarque

Oct 14 German "All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds German actress Ilse Jutta Zambona; divorce in 1930, remarry in 1938, re-divorce in 1957

Francisco Franco

Oct 16 General Francisco Franco (30) marries María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés (23) at Church of San Juan el Real in Oviedo

Famous Deaths

Oct 12 A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies
Oct 14 George Elbridge Whiting, American composer, dies at 83
Oct 14 Marcellus Emants, Dutch writer and poet (Refrained from Confession), dies at 75
Oct 26 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-American electrical engineer (development of alternating current), dies at 58

Bonar Law (1858-1923)

Oct 30 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1922-23), dies of throat cancer at 64

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