January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
Day of marriage November 16, 1923
The temperature on November 16, 1923 was between 3.8 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
October 22 » The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
October 29 » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
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