1923

Events from the year 1923 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Warren G. Harding (R-OH) (until August 2), Calvin Coolidge (R-MA) (starting August 2)
* Vice President: Calvin Coolidge (R-MA) (until August 2), vacant (starting August 2)
* Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (OH)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-MA)
* Senate Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
* Congress: 67th (until March 4), 68th (starting March 4)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 1 – The Rosewood massacre begins, a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town, takes place in Rosewood, Florida.
* January 7 – The Rosewood massacre ends.
* January 18 – Elon College's campus in North Carolina is destroyed by a fire.
* February 5 – United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind: The Supreme Court decides that Bhagat Singh Thind cannot become a naturalized U.S. citizen because, as a Punjabi Sikh, he is not a "white person".
* February 23 – The American Law Institute is incorporated.
* March 1 – The USS Connecticut is decommissioned.
* 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.
===April - June===
* April 1 – Safety Last!, a silent romantic comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, is released.
* April 4 – Warner Bros. Film Studio is formally incorporated in the United States, as Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., by Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Sam Warner and Albert Warner.
* April 6 – Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, "Chimes Blues", with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
* April 18 – The first Yankee Stadium opens its doors in the Bronx, New York City.
* 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.
* May 15 – Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island officially opened.
* May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan defies a law requiring publication of its members.
===July - September===
* July 13 – The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading Hollywoodland).
* August 2 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States, upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
* September 3 – Illustrated Daily News first published in Los Angeles by Cornelius Vanderbilt IV.
* September 4 – The United States Navy's first home-built rigid airship USS Shenandoah makes her first flight at Naval Air Station Lakehurst (New Jersey); she contains most of the world's extracted reserves of helium at this time (named and commissioned October 10).
* September 8 – Honda Point Disaster: Seven U.S. Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.
* September 17 – 1923 Berkeley Fire: Billy bob joe, 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 – Newspaper printers strike in New York City.
* September 29 – First American Track & Field championships for women, in New Jersey
===October - December===
* October 1, Mississippi something Road Signs Act came into effect.
* October 15 – The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants, 4 games to 2, to win their first World Series Title.
* October 16 – Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company.
* October 19 – War Resisters League organized by Jessie Wallace Hughan.
* 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.
==Memoriam==
* January 1 – Willie Keeler, baseball player (aged 50; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* January 18 – Wallace Reid, actor (aged 31; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* February 6 – Edward Emerson Barnard, astronomer (aged 65; Williams Bay, WI, USA)
* February 14 – Charles Henry Turner, African American entomologist (aged 56; Chicago, IL, USA)
* February 24 – Edward W. Morley, scientist (aged 85; West Hartford, CT, USA)
* February 26
** Walter B. Barrows, naturalist (aged 68; Lansing, MI, USA)
** George Clement Perkins, U.S. Senator from California from 1893 to 1915 (aged 83; Oakland, CA, USA)
* March 3 – Melancthon J. Briggs, lawyer and politician (aged 76; Dodgeville, WI, USA)
* March 6 – Joseph McDermott, actor (aged 44; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* March 15 – Goat Anderson, baseball player (aged 43; South Bend, IN, USA)
* April 4 – Horace Boies, 14th Governor of Iowa (aged 95; Long Beach, CA, USA)
* April 6 – Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist and anthropologist (aged 85; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 28 – Knute Nelson, Governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1895 to 1923 (aged 80; Timonium, MD, USA)
* August 2 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States from 1921 to 1923 (aged 57; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* August 10 – Laura Redden Searing, deaf poet and journalist (aged 84; San Mateo County, CA, USA)
* October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, painter (aged 69; Fitchburg, MA, USA)
* October 23 – Hannah Johnston Bailey, temperance advocate and suffragist (aged 84; Portland, ME, USA)
* November 4 – Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (aged 72; Winchester, MA, USA)
* November 8 – James R. Williams, politician (aged 72; Loma Linda, CA, USA)
* November 11 – Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, biographer (aged 64; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* December 28 – Frank Hayes, actor (aged 52; Hollywood, CA, USA)
==External links==
* 1923 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 15