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.
^O'Dell, Larry.
"Anti-Evolution Movement". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
^"Fire Fiend Unmasked". Los Angeles Times. August 17, 1923. p. I1.
ProQuest161579022.
^"May Snow Storm". National Weather Service. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
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.
^O'Dell, Larry.
"Anti-Evolution Movement". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
^"Fire Fiend Unmasked". Los Angeles Times. August 17, 1923. p. I1.
ProQuest161579022.
^"May Snow Storm". National Weather Service. Retrieved October 27, 2009.