18 January 1923Death of Wallace ReidWallace Reid
Death of Wallace Reid
Historical records for United States of America in 1923, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Death of Wallace Reid
Birth of Norman Kingsley Mailer
Writes the opinion requiring federal review of mob-dominated state criminal proceedings.
Takes his seat as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Writes the opinion denying naturalization eligibility to Bhagat Singh Thind under racial citizenship rules.
Urges United States participation in the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Resigns amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Veterans Bureau.
Signs the Agricultural Credits Act, expanding federal credit facilities for farmers.
Signs the Classification Act, standardising federal civil-service grades and pay schedules.
Leaves office as Secretary of the Interior before the Teapot Dome scandal fully emerges.
Writes the majority opinion invalidating a District of Columbia minimum-wage law for women.
Birth of Joseph Heller
Takes office as Comptroller of the Currency during the Harding administration.
Birth of Bea Arthur, actress in the "Golden Girls"
Birth of Henry Alfred Kissinger
Writes the majority opinion protecting language instruction against a Nebraska restriction.
Begins a western speaking tour intended to explain administration policies and promote national unity.
Drives the ceremonial golden spike completing the Alaska Railroad during his western tour.
Visits Canada during his final tour, becoming the first sitting United States president to visit the country.
Is present when President Harding dies during the western tour.
Dies suddenly in San Francisco while serving as President of the United States.
Warren Harding dies and Vice President Coolidge succeeds to the presidency.
Sworn in as the 30th President of the United States by his father, John C. Coolidge.
Begins his first presidential term after succeeding Warren Harding.
The vice presidency becomes vacant after Coolidge succeeds to the presidency.
Repeats the presidential oath before a federal judge after returning to Washington.
The United States recognizes the government of Alvaro Obregon after negotiations over claims and property rights.
Supports negotiations leading to improved relations with Mexico and recognition of the Obregon government.
Keeps Harding's cabinet in office temporarily to signal continuity after the presidential succession.
Birth of Charlton Heston
Photographs M31 with the 100-inch Hooker telescope and records the star later recognized as Cepheid variable V1 on the famous VAR photographic plate.
Birth of Maria Callas
Is reelected Speaker after Progressive Republican opposition delays House organization.
Delivers his first annual message to Congress, emphasizing economy, tax reduction and limited government.
Introduces the proposed Equal Rights Amendment in Congress.
Supports continued reduction of federal expenditure and public debt.
Backs Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's programme for lower taxes and federal economy.
Continues support for American participation in the World Court.
Supports federal agricultural credit measures during a period of farm distress.
Serves as United States ambassador to Great Britain before later becoming Secretary of State.
George David Birkhoff proves that the Schwarzschild spacetime geometry is the unique spherically symmetric solution of the Einstein vacuum field equations
Publication of "Cane"
Hubble identifies Cepheid variables in Andromeda and shows it lies beyond the Milky Way
Promotes business cooperation, standardisation and federal support for economic data collection.
Shows that X-rays scattered by electrons lose energy and momentum as expected from photon-electron collisions.
Continues efforts to stabilize postwar diplomacy while keeping the United States outside the League of Nations.
Begins work with international experts on the German reparations problem.
Leads the reparations expert committee that prepares the Dawes Plan; he does not become Vice President until 1925.
Discovers a class of variable stars known as cephids existing outside our own galaxy
Discovers X-Rays exhibit both wave & particle behaviour
Serves as Republican floor leader in the House of Representatives.
Leads House Democrats as minority leader in the 68th Congress.
Invents the liquid fuel rocket
Remains Attorney General as criticism of Harding administration scandals grows.
Continues as Secretary of Labor during the Harding-Coolidge transition.
Faces rising scrutiny over naval oil reserve leases connected with Teapot Dome.
Publication of "New Hampshire"
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the elementary electric charge and the photoelectric effect.
Serves as Postmaster General under Harding and then Coolidge.
Serves as president pro tempore of the Senate during the vice-presidential vacancy.
Advocates budget surpluses to reduce the federal public debt after World War I.
Presses for clearer federal authority over the rapidly expanding radio industry.
Chosen to chair the committee reviewing German reparations after European deadlock.
Appointed to chair the expert committee studying German reparations; the later Dawes Plan is submitted in 1924.
Serves as a major Republican Senate organizer and party whip.
Continues as Senate Republican leader during the Harding-Coolidge transition.
Represents the federal government before the Supreme Court during the Harding-Coolidge transition.
Continues as Chief Justice while the Court hears major due process and citizenship cases.
Promotes tax reduction and debt retirement as central Treasury policies.
Supports Senate investigation into naval oil reserve leases and executive-branch corruption.
Leads Senate scrutiny of oil reserve leases that become known as the Teapot Dome scandal.
Is appointed to restore administration of the Veterans Bureau after scandal.
Continues postwar management of the Army and military demobilisation policy.
Becomes Coolidge's secretary and helps manage the White House after Harding's death.
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