June 1923

June 1, 1923 (Friday)

June 2, 1923 (Saturday)

June 3, 1923 (Sunday)

  • A commission in New York City released the findings of its investigation into charges that some American history textbooks included anti-American propaganda. The report found eight such textbooks that were seen as pro-British. "Any history which, after 150 years, attempts to teach our children that the War of Independence was an unnecessary war and that it is still a problem as to who was right and who was wrong, should be fed to the furnace and those responsible for those books branded as un-American", commissioner David Hirschfeld said.[4]

June 4, 1923 (Monday)

June 5, 1923 (Tuesday)

June 6, 1923 (Wednesday)

  • France and Belgium released a joint statement saying that Germany's request would not be considered until passive resistance in the Ruhr ended.[6]
  • Papyrus won The Derby.[7] Edgar Wallace became the first British radio sports reporter when he reported on the Derby for the British Broadcasting Company.
  • Women over 25 with a grammar school-level education were granted the right to vote in local elections in Italy.[8]
  • Louletano D.C. football club was founded in Portugal.

June 7, 1923 (Thursday)

June 8, 1923 (Friday)

  • The British House of Commons passed a bill giving women the right to divorce their husbands on the grounds of infidelity, without having to prove cruelty or desertion.[1][9]

June 9, 1923 (Saturday)

June 10, 1923 (Sunday)

June 11, 1923 (Monday)

June 12, 1923 (Tuesday)

  • The last of the hostages of the Chinese train bandits were freed.[12]
  • General Feng Yuxiang issued an ultimatum to Chinese President Li Yuanhong stating that his troops would enter Beijing if Li did not resign.[13]
  • Died: Cliff Carroll, 63, American baseball player

June 13, 1923 (Wednesday)

June 14, 1923 (Thursday)

June 15, 1923 (Friday)

June 16, 1923 (Saturday)

June 17, 1923 (Sunday)

June 18, 1923 (Monday)

  • Pancho Villa won the World Flyweight Title of boxing when he knocked out Jimmy Wilde in the seventh round at the Polo Grounds in New York City.[19]
  • Several small towns around Mount Etna were destroyed by lava, but no casualties were reported as residents had time to evacuate.[18]
  • Speculation about Henry Ford running for president ended when he was quoted as saying, "I am much too occupied with my own affairs to become the next president and I do not intend to run.".[20]
  • Political leader Marcus Garvey was found guilty of mail fraud for using the U.S. mail to sell stock in the bankrupt Black Star Line.[21]

June 19, 1923 (Tuesday)

June 20, 1923 (Wednesday)

June 21, 1923 (Thursday)

  • President Harding gave a speech in St. Louis reiterating his advocacy for American participation in the World Court but not the League of Nations. The speech was carried live by three radio stations, making Harding the first president to be heard by a million people simultaneously.[26][27]
  • The flow of lava from Mount Etna almost stopped.[28]
  • Marcus Garvey was sentenced to five years in prison for mail fraud.[29]

June 22, 1923 (Friday)

  • Britain passed the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Bill, granting them £100,000 annually.[1]

June 23, 1923 (Saturday)

June 24, 1923 (Sunday)

  • The French Chamber of Deputies debated whether to give the colony of the French West Indies to the United States as payment of war debt. Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré said, "I never would permit such a proposal to be officially made to the French government."[31]
  • Top hats, which had been out of fashion in Paris since the beginning of the war in 1914, made a sudden comeback among French men.[32]
  • Died: Edith Södergran, 31, Swedish-language Finnish poet

June 25, 1923 (Monday)

June 26, 1923 (Tuesday)

June 27, 1923 (Wednesday)

June 28, 1923 (Thursday)

June 29, 1923 (Friday)

  • French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré made a speech in the senate indirectly responding to the pope's letter by explaining that "the only screw that we have on Germany is her desire to recover the Ruhr. We have no thought of annexation, and we energetically refute all accusations of imperialism. France does not wish to confiscate the Ruhr. We will keep it, however, until Germany has paid her debt." Poincaré also called the resistance movement in the Ruhr "active, insidious and criminal."[42]
  • Died: Gustave Kerker, 66, German composer

June 30, 1923 (Saturday)

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