Historical Events in October 1923

September 29, 2024

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October1923 Calendar

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

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

German Hyperinflation

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

Oct 19 Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter

Ruth's Exhibition Game

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

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