January 1–7 – The Rosewood massacre, a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town, takes place in Rosewood, Florida.
March 2 – The first issue of Time magazine is published.
March 23 – The governor of Oklahoma signs House Bill 197 with the Montgomery amendment outlawing the theory of evolution in public school textbooks purchased by the state, the first anti-Darwinian legislation passed in the U.S.[1]
April 6 – Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, "Chimes Blues", with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
April 15 – Nihon Shōgakkō fire: 10 Japanese-American children are killed in a racially motivated arson attack on a Japanese Buddhist mission school in Sacramento, California, by an itinerant Mexican-American serial arsonist.[2]
May 9 – Southeastern Michigan receives a record 6 inches (15 cm) of snow after temperatures plummeted from 62 °F (17 °C) to 34 °F (1 °C) degrees between 13:00-18:00 on the previous day.[3]
September 17 – 1923 Berkeley Fire: Berkeley, California erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.
September 18–26 – Newspaper printers strike in New York City.
December 10 – Sigma Alpha Kappa (the first social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded at Loyola University New Orleans, making it the first social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the U.S.
December 20 – BEGGARS Fraternity (the second social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded by nine men, who have secured permission to do so from the Pope.
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^"Fire Fiend Unmasked". Los Angeles Times. August 17, 1923. p. I1. ProQuest 161579022.
^"May Snow Storm". National Weather Service. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
^"Crowds at Coney To Open Boardwalk". The New York Times. 1923-05-16. Archived from the original on 2019-07-24.
^Hayward, John T. (August 1978). "Comment and Discussion". United States Naval Institute Proceedings.
^Powers, Roger S. (2012). Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-76482-0.
^"The long legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
^Charles Sellers, 98, Historian Who Upset the Postwar Consensus, Dies
^"Article Written by Mrs. Miller is Read at Funeral". Springfield News-Sun. 17 February 1923. p. 9. Retrieved 19 July 2023 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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