August 1923

August 1, 1923 (Wednesday)

  • A medical bulletin from President Harding's physicians reported "slight improvement in the lung condition" but no change otherwise.[1]
  • The wife of film comedian Al St. John was granted a divorce in Los Angeles court. "He started drinking in October 1917, and I haven't seen him sober since that time", she testified.[2]
  • The Sunrise Theatre opened in Fort Pierce, Florida.

August 2, 1923 (Thursday)

  • President Warren G. Harding died at 7:30 p.m. San Francisco time. The cause of death was officially said at the time to have been from a stroke, but it is now more commonly believed to have been from heart failure.[3]
  • The British House of Commons held a debate on the Anglo-French diplomatic deadlock over the German reparations issue. "I have always acted on the assumption that the object of our Allies in pursuing their Ruhr policy is to obtain reparations, as is our object", Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said. "It has often been stated that there are ulterior motives. I do not desire to believe that, but, if it is so, I would just say this ... If the British people feel, after a lapse of time, that the wounds of Europe were being kept open instead of being healed, there might then easily ensue the last thing in the world that I would like to see, and that would be an estrangement of heart between our people and those who take the opposite view." Ramsay MacDonald of the Labour Party was more blunt. "It is perfectly clear that France is in the Ruhr not for the purpose of getting reparations. No sane man can hold to that view now", he said. "Are we not compelled to come to the conclusion that the French policy in the Ruhr is a policy that is prompted by war-like feelings, feelings that have been handed over from the War, feelings that were unsatisfied as a result of the War, and that, in a sentence, it is an attempt to continue war after formal peace has been declared?"[4]
  • Born: Shimon Peres, President and Prime Minister of Israel, in Wiszniew, Poland (d. 2016)
  • Died: Warren G. Harding, 57, 29th President of the United States

August 3, 1923 (Friday)

August 4, 1923 (Saturday)

  • Rauf Orbay resigned as Prime Minister of Turkey.[8]
  • Calvin Coolidge's first official act was to declare August 10 a day of national mourning and prayer on the occasion of Warren Harding's funeral.[9]
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ended his visit to North America, boarding the RMS Adriatic in New York bound for England. "After a period of about three days the spirit of President Harding may, if sought, advise Calvin Coolidge, the nation's new chief executive, wisely and helpfully on the great problems confronting him", Doyle said just before leaving.[10]

August 5, 1923 (Sunday)

August 6, 1923 (Monday)

August 7, 1923 (Tuesday)

  • German Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno called a conference of the six top party leaders where it was decided to put the country back on a gold basis.[14]
  • Harding's funeral train reached Washington, D.C. at 10:22 p.m.[15]

August 8, 1923 (Wednesday)

August 9, 1923 (Thursday)

August 10, 1923 (Friday)

August 11, 1923 (Saturday)

August 12, 1923 (Sunday)

August 13, 1923 (Monday)

August 14, 1923 (Tuesday)

August 15, 1923 (Wednesday)

  • A brawl involving 2,000 people broke out in Steubenville, Ohio when a banquet held in a hotel by the Ku Klux Klan was broken up by a mob swinging clubs and throwing bricks and bottles.[28]

August 16, 1923 (Thursday)

August 17, 1923 (Friday)

August 18, 1923 (Saturday)

August 19, 1923 (Sunday)

  • 8 died in forest fires along the French Riviera.[35]
  • Lord Rothermere, in an editorial in his Sunday Pictorial, entreated Britain to preserve the Entente with France. "Europe without an entente is bound to mean an immense growth in armaments", he wrote. "We will have to resort at once to conscription without waiting for the outbreak of hostilities."[36]
  • German electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz said that by 2023, electricity would be doing all the hard work and people would not have to toil for more than four hours a day. Steinmetz also envisioned cities free of pollution and litter in a century's time.[37]

August 20, 1923 (Monday)

  • Mines and metal industries were shut down in the Ruhr and Rhineland by a new wave of strikes.[21]
  • A streetcar ride in Berlin cost 100,000 marks, ten times what it cost two weeks earlier.[38]
  • The seven-week docker's strike ended in England.[39]
  • Born: Jim Reeves, country singer-songwriter, in Galloway, Texas (d. 1964)

August 21, 1923 (Tuesday)

August 22, 1923 (Wednesday)

August 23, 1923 (Thursday)

August 24, 1923 (Friday)

August 25, 1923 (Saturday)

  • Violence broke out in Carnegie, Pennsylvania between citizens of the heavily Catholic community and the Ku Klux Klan. The mayor of Carnegie had stopped the KKK from being allowed to march in the town, but 10,000 Klansmen came out to hold a rally on a nearby hill and then about half of them began moving towards Carnegie anyway. The locals threw stones and a Klansman was shot dead; about a dozen arrests were made.[48][49]
  • Germany decided to put all workers on the gold basis rate.[50]

August 26, 1923 (Sunday)

August 27, 1923 (Monday)

August 28, 1923 (Tuesday)

  • Germans offered to end their passive resistance campaign in the Ruhr in exchange for the release of deportees and prisoners and a guarantee of the "safety of life and subsistence of the Ruhr population."[53]
  • U.S. Army pilots Lowell Smith and John Richter broke aviation endurance records by staying in the air for 37 consecutive hours over Rockwell Field in San Diego. Mid-air refueling was used to accomplish the feat.[54]
  • Ex-Pennsylvania governor William Cameron Sproul suggested that Prohibition hastened the death of Warren G. Harding. "I think President Harding's death was accelerated by the fact that he thought it was his duty, because of Prohibition, to set a public example and abstain", Sproul said. "He was accustomed to an occasional drink of scotch. I was his personal friend and I know, and in that laborious task of a trip to Alaska, I'm sure he missed it."[55]

August 29, 1923 (Wednesday)

August 30, 1923 (Thursday)

  • The Greek government offered counterproposals to the Italian ultimatum, but Italy refused to negotiate.[52]
  • The film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney, premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.[56]
  • A riot broke out in the small city of Perth Amboy, New Jersey when a mob of 6,000 attacked a hall where a meeting of 150 members of the Ku Klux Klan was being held. Police and firemen tried to control the crowd with clubs, gas bombs and water hoses, but were overwhelmed.[57] Two cars full of Klansmen were intercepted before they could escape and the occupants were beaten.[58]
  • Died: Nancy Green, 89, American storyteller, cook, activist and model for "Aunt Jemima" (car accident)

August 31, 1923 (Friday)

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