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1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1923 - Events. January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments 1923 - February. February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the ...

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia II - 1923 - Events 1923 - January. January 1 - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies January 10 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel January 11 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments 1923 - February. February 16 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun February 22 - Barcelona (Catalonia): Albert Einstein visits ...

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Antony Flew

Professor Antony Garrard Newton Flew (born February 11, 1923) is a British philosopher, known principally as a supporter of libertarianism and atheism. Antony Flew - Biography. Flew was born in London in 1923, the son of a Methodist minister. He was educated at St. Faith's Preparatory School, Cambridge followed by Kingswood School, Bath. During the Second World War he studied Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and was a Royal Air Force intelligence officer. After the war, Flew achieved ...

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia - C. Turner Joy

Charles Turner Joy (17 February 1895 – 13 June 1956) was an admiral of the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. C. Turner Joy was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 17 February 1895. Commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1916, he served in the battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38) for more than four years, including the period of the United States' participation in the First World War. In 1923, after receiving a graduate education in engineering, he began two ...

1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Buddy DeFranco

Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (born February 17, 1923 in Camden, New Jersey) is a jazz clarinet player. DeFranco had the bad fortune to begin his professional career just as Swing Music and Big Bands – so many of which were led by clarinet players like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman – were fading in popularity. DeFranco was perhaps the only major jazz clarinet player to adapt to this change, and until the 1980's, he was the only notable jazz musician who played clarinet exclusively. H ...

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (in English: "William Conrad Roentgen") (March 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen Rays. Röntgen's name is usually given as "Roentgen" (an alternative German spelling) in English; therefore most scientific and medical references to him are found under this spelling. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - Early life and educationIncluding:

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Wilhelm Killing

Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing (1847 May 10 – 1923 February 11) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and non-Euclidean geometry. Killing invented Lie algebras independently of Sophus Lie around 1880. He made important contributions to the classification of simple Lie algebras, inventing the notions of a Cartan subalgebra and the Cartan matrix. He also introduced the notion of a root system. He is the discoverer of the exceptional Lie algebra g2 (in 1887); his root system classification showed up all the exc ...

1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Alfred P. Sloan

Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966), long-time president and chairman of General Motors, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied electrical engineering and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892. He became president of a machine shop making ball bearings in 1899. In 1916 and 1918, his company merged with United Motors Corporation and with another company to form General Motors Corporation, which started making cars. He became Vice-President, then President (1923), an ...

1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Völkischer Beobachter

The Völkischer Beobachter ("Völkisch Observer") was the newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1920. It first appeared weekly, then daily from February 8, 1923. The "fighting paper of the National Socialist movement of Greater Germany" (Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands) had its origin in the Münchner Beobachter ("Munich Observer"), which in 1918 was acquired by the Thule Society and in August 1919 was renamed Völkischer Beobachter. The NSDAP purchased it in December 1920 on th ...

1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad (October 7, 1897–February 25, 1975) led the largely African-American spiritual and political organization, the Nation of Islam from 1934 to 1975. Elijah Muhammad - Muhammad's Rise. Elijah was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia as one of 13 children of tenant farmers (share croppers) who were former slaves. At the age of 16 he left home and traveled about America, and in 1917 would be wedded to Clara Evans, later to be known as Mother Clara Muhammad. In 1923 he finally settled in De ...

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Brendan Behan

Brendan Francis Behan (Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin) (9 February 1923 - 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also a committed Irish Republican and a member of the Irish Republican Army. Behan was one of the most successful Irish dramatists of the 20th century. Brendan Behan - Biography. Brendan Behan - Early life. Behan was born in inner-city Dublin into an educated working class family. The ho ...

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Annie Glenn

Annie Glenn (born Anna Margaret Castor on February 17, 1920) is the wife of former astronaut and Senator John Glenn. Annie Glenn - Private Life. Annie was born in 1920 to Homer and Margaret Castor of Columbus, Ohio. In 1923, Dr. Castor and his family moved to New Concord, Ohio, where they became friends with the family of John Hershel Glenn, Sr. Annie and John Glenn, Jr., were childhood playmates, then high school sweethearts, and after John received his commission in the Marine Corps, they were marr ...

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia - Chuck Yeager

Brigadier General Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923 in Myra, Lincoln County, West Virginia) is a World War II ace and test pilot, considered a living legend of aviation. He is most famous for being the first human to undeniably travel faster than sound. Yeager's flying career has spanned more than sixty years and taken him to every corner of the globe, even into the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Chuck Yeager - Biography. Yeager was born into a poor family in West Virgin ...

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1923 - February: Encyclopedia II - USS West Virginia BB-48 - 7 December 1941

On Sunday, 7 December 1941, West Virginia lay moored outboard of Tennessee (BB-43) at berth F-6 with 40 feet (12 m) of water beneath her keel. Shortly before 08:00, Japanese planes, flying from a six-carrier task force, commenced their well-planned attack on Pearl Harbor. West Virginia took five 18 inch (457 mm) aircraft torpedoes in her port side and two bomb hits, those bombs being 15 inch (381 mm) armor-piercing shells fitted with fins. The first bomb penetrated the superstructure deck, wrecking the port casemates and ...

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