Timeline April 1923

Events in April 1923 8

• 1923 First recordings with King Oliver -- Gennett Records Armstrong makes his first recordings with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band for Gennett Records in April 1923. The recordings -- including 'Chimes Blues,' 'Dippermouth Blues' and 'Snake Rag' -- are the first significant documentation of New Orleans jazz and the first time Armstrong's playing is preserved on record. His cornet solos on these sessions, though restrained by the ensemble format, already show the rhythmic inventiveness and melodic authority that will explode in his later solo work. Armstrong is 21 years old.
• 1923 – 2016 Debbie Reynolds (1923-2016) Died 28 December 2016, aged 93 Reynolds was an American actress and singer best known for her role in Singin' in the Rain. She had a decades-long career in film, television, and Las Vegas performance. She died one day after her daughter, actress Carrie Fisher.
• 1923 Warner Bros. Pictures founded Four brothers incorporate a Hollywood film studio Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner incorporated Warner Bros. Pictures in Burbank, California. The studio grew into one of Hollywood's major film companies, later pioneering synchronized sound in feature films with The Jazz Singer. It remains one of the oldest film studios still in operation.
• 1923 – 2001 Nguyen Van Thieu (1923-2001) Died 29 September 2001, aged 78 Thieu was president of South Vietnam from 1967 until days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, when he resigned and left the country. His government relied heavily on American support and was widely accused of corruption. He spent his last decades in exile in Britain and the United States.
• 1923 – 2004 Ann Miller (1923-2004) American dancer and actress, famous for her machine-gun tap dancing in MGM musicals.
• 1923 Ann Miller born in Chireno Ann Miller is born in Chireno.
• 1923 Yankee Stadium opens The "House That Ruth Built" debuts in the Bronx Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, New York, with the Yankees defeating the Boston Red Sox before some 74,000 spectators; Babe Ruth hit a home run in the inaugural game. It became the largest and most famous ballpark in baseball for decades. The stadium earned the nickname "The House That Ruth Built."
• 1923 – 2000 Tito Puente (1923-2000) Died 31 May 2000, aged 77 Tito Puente was a New York-born bandleader, timbales player and composer known as the "King of Mambo" and "El Rey" of Latin music. Over more than fifty years he recorded around a hundred albums, and his "Oye Como Va" became a hit for Santana. He did much to carry Latin jazz to mainstream American audiences.