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January[edit] Main article: January 1923

January 1 – The Grouping: All major British railway companies are grouped into four larger companies, under terms of the Railways Act 1921.

January 1–7 – Rosewood massacre: In a violent, racially motivated attack, at least 8 people are killed, and the town of Rosewood, Florida is abandoned and destroyed.

January 17 – Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor.

January 18 – Elon College's campus in North Carolina is destroyed by a fire.

February[edit] Main article: February 1923 February 5 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class cricket score for the first time in his third match at this level, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, giving the Victoria cricket team an innings total of 1,059.

February 8 – Norman Albert calls the first live broadcast of an ice hockey game, the third period of an Ontario Hockey League Intermediate playoff game, on Toronto radio station CFCA.[1][2]

February 9 – Billy Hughes, having resigned as Prime Minister of Australia, after the Country Party refuses to govern in coalition with him as the leader of the Nationalist Party, is succeeded by Stanley Bruce. A Liberal–National Coalition will persist in the politics of Australia for at least 95 years.

February 23 The American Law Institute is incorporated in the United States.

Albert Einstein visits Barcelona, Spain, at the invitation of scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa.

March[edit] Main article: March 1923 March 1 The USS Connecticut is decommissioned.

Eskom, the largest electricity producer in Africa, is established in South Africa.

Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.

March 3 – Cover date of the first issue of Time Magazine. Retired U.S. Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon appears on the first cover.

March 6 – The Egyptian Feminist Union (Arabic: الاتحاد النسائي المصري), the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt, is founded at the home of activist Huda Sha'arawi.[3][4][5]

March 14 – Pete Parker calls the play-by-play of the first ice hockey game ever broadcast on the radio in its entirety, between the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League.[6]

March 28 – Regia Aeronautica, the air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.

April[edit] Main article: April 1923

April 1 – Safety Last!, a silent romantic comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, is released.

April 4 – Warner Bros. Film Studio is formally incorporated in the United States, as Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.

April 6 Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, "Chimes Blues", with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed, in Victoria Institution, Federated Malay States.

April 12 – The Kandersteg International Scout Centre comes into existence in Switzerland.

April 18

Yankee Stadium opens its doors, as the home park of the New York Yankees baseball team, in The Bronx.

Russian professional sports society club, Dynamo Moscow, is founded.[7]

April 19 Hjalmar Branting leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after the Swedish Riksdag has rejected a government proposal regarding unemployment benefits. Right-wing academic and jurist Ernst Trygger succeeds him.

The Egyptian Constitution of 1923 is adopted, introducing a parliamentary system of democracy in the country.[8]

April 23 – The Gdynia seaport is inaugurated, on the Polish Corridor.

April 26 – Prince Albert, Duke of York (later George VI, King of the United Kingdom) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) in Westminster Abbey

April 28 – The original Wembley Stadium opens its doors for the first time to the British public, staging the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United.