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next turn year 1923

events

May[edit] Main article: May 1923 May 1 – Rahula College is established in Ceylon, with the name of "Parakramabhahu Vidyalaya".

May 8 – The Liseberg amusement park opens in Gothenburg, Sweden.

May 9 Southeastern Michigan receives a record 15 centimetres (5.9 in) of snow, after temperatures plummeted from 17 to 1 degrees between 1 and 6 pm on the previous day.[9]

The premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle (Im Dickicht), at the Residenztheater in Munich, is interrupted by Nazi demonstrators.

May 20 – British Prime Minister Bonar Law resigns, due to ill health.

May 23 Stanley Baldwin is appointed British Prime Minister.

Belgium's Sabena Airlines is created.

May 26 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race is held, and is won by André Lagache and René Léonard.

May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan in the United States defies a law requiring publication of its members.

June[edit] Main article: June 1923

June 9: Aleksandar Stamboliyski June 9 – A military coup in Bulgaria ousts prime minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski (he is killed June 14).

June 12 – William Walton's Façade is performed for the first time, in London.

June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless.

June 25 – FC Rapid București is formed, on the initiative of the Grivița railroad workers (first named CFR București).

July[edit] Main article: July 1923

July 13 The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading Hollywoodland).

American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first dinosaur eggs near Flaming Cliffs, Mongolia.

July 20 – Pancho Villa is assassinated at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua.

Main article: August 1923

August 2: Calvin Coolidge is 30th President of the United States.

August 2 – President Warren G. Harding dies of a heart attack, and is succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge, who becomes the 30th President of the United States.

August 3 – President Calvin Coolidge is sworn in.

August 13 . August 18 – The first British Track & Field championships for women are held in London.

August 21 – Mexican Association football Club Necaxa is founded by engineer William H. Frasser.

August 30 – Hurricane season begins, with a tropical storm northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands.