* 1992 – Michael Havers, British barrister and politician ( b. 1923 )

In 1923 the British Museum welcomed over one million visitors.

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 March 1923, he made it clear that he entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the British government's interpretation of the pledges which he, as foreign secretary, had caused to be given to Hussein in 1915.

* 1923 – Antony Flew, British philosopher ( d. 2010 )

The mandate formalised British rule in the southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923 – 1948.

1843 – 1923 ), British homeopathic physician

The British Mandate ( in effect, British rule ) of Palestine, including the Balfour Declaration, was confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922 and came into effect in 1923.

Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing British colony in October 1923, subsequent to a 1922 referendum.

* 1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations ; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.

* John Wesley Brown ( 1873 – 1944 ), British Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East, 1922 – 1923

On 1 April 1923, Shaikh Ahmad al-Sabah wrote the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major John More, " I still do not know what the border between Iraq and Kuwait is, I shall be glad if you will kindly give me this information.

The border was revisited by a memorandum sent by the British high commissioner for Iraq in 1923, which became the basis for Kuwait's northern border.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994 ) was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

Mu-metal was developed by scientists named Smith and Garnett and patented in 1923 for inductive loading of submarine telegraph cables by The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. Ltd. ( now Telcon Metals Ltd .), a British firm which built the Atlantic undersea telegraph cables.

* 1923 – Sir Robin Day OBE, British political broadcaster and commentator ( d. 2000 )

* 1923 – Murray Walker, British motorsport commentator

The country, based in Salisbury, was considered a de facto successor state to the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia ( which had achieved responsible government in 1923 ).

* 1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24 July 1923, that ended the state of war that had existed since 1914 between Turkey on the one hand, and the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania and the Serb-Croatian-Slovene State on the other.

Conservative Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party ( 1923 – 37 ) and as Prime Minister in 1923 – 4, 1924 – 9, and again in 1935 – 7 dominated British politics.

After the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish government began to formally object to the use of Constantinople in other languages and ask that others use the more common name for the city.

Georg Lukács, minister of Culture in the brief Béla Kun government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic ( 1919 ), published History and Class Consciousness ( 1923 ), which defined dialectical materialism as the knowledge of society as a whole, knowledge which, in itself, was immediately the class consciousness of the proletariat.

Petroleum seeps on the North Slope have been known for many years, and in 1923, the federal government created US Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 to cover the presumed oil fields beneath the seeps.

His reign also saw the rise to dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, who seized control of the government by military coup in 1923 and ruled as a dictator – with the monarch's support – for seven years ( 1923 – 1930 ).

In an effort to end the fighting, the United States government dispatched Sumner Welles to the port of Amapala ; he had instructions to try to produce a settlement that would bring to power a government eligible for recognition under the terms of the 1923 treaty.

Scottish educated Andrew Bonar Law led a Conservative government from 1922 to 1923 and another Scot, Ramsey MacDonald, would be the Labour Party's first Prime Minister in 1924 and again from 1929-35.

* 1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.

* 1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria.

* 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

The Polish government also concluded such a convention with the Soviet government on 7 February 1923, for which ratifications were exchanged on 8 January 1924.

In 1923 the Stockholm municipal government moved to a new building, the Stockholm City Hall.

* Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) by H. G. Wells, men and women in an alternative universe live without world government in a perfected state of anarchy ; " Our education is our government ," a Utopian named Lion says ; sectarian religion, like politics, has died away, and advanced scientific research flourishes ; life is governed by " the Five Principles of Liberty ," which are privacy, free movement, unlimited knowledge, truthfulness, and free discussion and criticism.

Adolf Hitler, after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government in 1923, became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933.

From 1921 to 1923, the federal government spent $ 162 million on America's highway system, infusing the U. S. economy with a large amount of capital.

In the Soviet Union, after Vladimir Lenin incapacitated from a stroke in 1923, Joseph Stalin — who, as General Secretary of the Communist Party had the power to appoint anyone he chose to top party positions — eventually emerged as leader of the Party and the legitimate government.

A process led by the Utah Parks Company for transferring ownership of private and state-held land in the monument to the federal government started in 1923.

The first modern Navajo government convened in 1923 in an effort to organize and regulate an increasing amount of oil exploration activities on Navajo lands.

He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931.

More of a " boy's club " than a production company, the four men gradually drifted apart and went their separate ways by 1923, at which time Hawks decided that he wanted to direct instead of produce.

The borders of Albania again became the cause of international conflict when Italian General Enrico Tellini and four of his assistants were ambushed and killed on 24 August 1923 while marking out the newly decided border between Greece and Albania.

By 1923, the fate of the area had still not been decided, prompting Lithuanian forces to invade in January 1923 and seize the port.

The labor conference, however, decided against labor's demands in 1923.

When she graduated from high school in 1923, Gaynor decided to pursue an acting career.

These bounds were decided in the 1797 Treaty of Beaufort, and tested in the U. S. Supreme Court in the two Georgia v. South Carolina cases in 1923 and 1989.

In 1923, it was decided to build a modern brick school.

After the success of an experimental classical-jazz concert held with French-Canadian singer Eva Gauthier at Aeolian Hall on 1 November 1923, band leader Paul Whiteman decided to attempt something more ambitious.

In 1923 Bliss's father, who had remarried, decided to retire in the US.

By 1923, having to choose between Baldwin and Lord Curzon, George V decided that " the requirements of the present times " obliged him to appoint a Prime Minister from the Commons.

In 1923 the county of Telemark decided to start a secondary school in Bø, the equivalent of today's middle school or " ungdomsskole ", called Telemark Realskole.

In June 1923, French administration, headed by General Maxime Weygand, decided allow the individual states to elect their own Representative Councils.

When Bordiga was arrested in February 1923 on a trumped-up charge by the new government of Benito Mussolini, he had to give up his post as member of the Central Committee of the PCd ’ I but, on his acquittal later that year, he decided not to reclaim it, thus implicitly accepting that he was now an oppositionist.

After the destruction of Eclipse Park, the Brecks decided to play their home games of the 1923 season at the newly constructed Parkway Field.

In 1923, the legislature decided, rather than a branch campus, an entirely new university would better serve the needs of the region.

Poincaré decided to occupy the Ruhr on 11 January 1923, to extract the reparations himself.

With the granting of full rights of citizenship to persons of Jewish descent under the Constitution of 1923, the League raided the Iaşi Ghetto, led a group that petitioned the government in Bucharest ( being received with indifference ), and ultimately decided to assassinate Premier Ion I. C. Brătianu and other members of government.

After a long series of negotiations, on March 14, 1923, the League of Nations decided that eastern Galicia would be incorporated into Poland, thus " taking into consideration that Poland has recognized that in regard to the eastern part of Galicia ethnographic conditions fully deserve its autonomous status.

For the 1923 regatta, the Stewards therefore decided to try a shorter experimental straight course which started at the top of the island.

In 1923 the Supreme Court decided in Frothingham v. Mellon, 262 U. S. 447 ( 1923 ), that a taxpayer did not have standing to sue the federal government to prevent expenditures if her only injury is an anticipated increase in taxes.

After a long series of further negotiations, on March 14, 1923 it was decided that eastern Galicia would be incorporated into Poland " taking into consideration that Poland has recognized that in regard to the eastern part of Galicia ethnographic conditions fully deserve its autonomous status.