What Happened In December 1923 In History

Historical Events for December, 1923

• 21st » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816.
• 27th » Daisuke Namba, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
• 31st » The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1923

• 1st » Morris (comics) known as Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
• 1st » William F. House, American otologist and physician (d. 2012)
• 1st » Dick Shawn, American actor and singer (d. 1987)
• 1st » Stansfield Turner, American admiral, 12th Director of Central Intelligence
• 2nd » Maria Callas, American-Greek soprano (d. 1977)
• 3rd » Dede Allen, American film editor (d. 2010)
• 3rd » Stjepan Bobek, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2010)
• 3rd » Moyra Fraser, Australian-English actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2009)
• 4th » Charles Keating, American lawyer and financier (d. 2014)
• 4th » John Krish, English screenwriter and director
• 4th » Eagle Keys, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2012)
• 7th » Intizar Hussain, Indian-Pakistani author and scholar
• 7th » Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986)
• 8th » Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-American soldier and chemist
• 10th » Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010)
• 10th » Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel, Buenos Aires named Marriott Plaza Hotel (d. 2013)
• 11th » Betsy Blair, American-English actress and dancer (d. 2009)
• 11th » Lilian Cahn, Hungarian-American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013)
• 11th » Nikolai Matvejev, Estonian cyclist (d. 1984)
• 12th » Bob Barker, American game show host and producer
• 12th » Bob Dorough, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 12th » Ken Kavanagh, Australian race car driver and motorcycle racer
• 13th » Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate
• 13th » Terence Beckett, English businessman (d. 2013)
• 13th » Edward Clancy (cardinal) called Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (d. 2014)
• 13th » Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (d. 2003)
• 14th » Gerard Reve, Dutch-Belgian author and poet (d. 2006)
• 15th » Freeman Dyson, English-American physicist and mathematician
• 15th » Uziel Gal, German-Israeli firearm designer, designed the Uzi called Uzi gun (d. 2002)
• 15th » Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and politician (d. 2009)
• 16th » Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist (Beaux Arts Trio)
• 16th » Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (d. 2014)
• 17th » Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (d. 2006)
• 18th » Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall called Edwin Bramall, English field marshal
• 19th » Robert V. Bruce, American historian and author (d. 2008)
• 19th » Gordon Jackson (actor) known as Gordon Jackson, Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 22nd » Peregrine Worsthorne, English journalist
• 23rd » Onofre Marimón, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1954)
• 23rd » Günther Schifter, Austrian journalist (d. 2008)
• 23rd » James Stockdale, American admiral and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2005)
• 24th » Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969)
• 24th » George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
• 25th » René Girard, French historian, philosopher, and critic
• 26th » Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2013)
• 27th » Bruno Bobak, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (d. 2012)
• 29th » Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (d. 1986)
• 29th » Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian holocaust survivor and author (d. 2012)
• 30th » Prakash Vir Shastri, Indian activist (d. 1977)
• 31st » Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)

Famous Deaths for December 1923

• 1st » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 12th » Raymond Radiguet, French author and poet (b. 1903)
• 26th » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (b. 1868)
• 27th » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832)

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