Timeline January 1923

Events in January 1923 8

• 1888 – 1923 Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) Died 9 January 1923, aged 34 Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand-born writer celebrated for her innovative short stories, including collections such as Bliss and The Garden Party. She died of tuberculosis in Fontainebleau, France, at age 34. Her modernist style influenced writers including Virginia Woolf.
• 1923 Australian Open 1923 Men: Pat O'Hara Wood · Women: Mall Molesworth
• 1923 Exposed and discharged United Kingdom The press found him out and the RAF dismissed him. He enlisted in the Tank Corps instead, now as T. E. Shaw, and took the name legally in 1927.
• 1923 German hyperinflation reaches its peak The mark collapses and a new currency is introduced The German mark lost virtually all value in 1923, with prices doubling every few days at the peak of the crisis in November, and workers were paid in wheelbarrows of banknotes. The Weimar government introduced the Rentenmark on November 15 to stabilize the currency and halt the collapse. The crisis wiped out middle-class savings and deepened political instability.
• 1923 – 2003 Sam Phillips (1923-2003) Died 30 July 2003, aged 80 Sam Phillips founded Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded early sides by Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King and Ike Turner before discovering Elvis Presley in 1954. He also recorded Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, shaping the emergence of rock and roll.
• 1923 French occupation of the Ruhr begins French and Belgian troops occupy Germany's industrial heartland France and Belgium sent troops into the Ruhr valley after Germany defaulted on reparations payments set by the Treaty of Versailles. German workers responded with passive resistance and a general strike, deepening the economic crisis and accelerating hyperinflation. The occupation lasted until 1925.
• 1923 – 2013 Jean Stapleton (1923-2013) Died 31 May 2013, aged 90 Jean Stapleton was an American actress best known for playing Edith Bunker on the television sitcom All in the Family. She died at her home in New York City.
• 1923 – 1981 Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) Died 1 August 1981, aged 58 American screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, the only person to win three solo Academy Awards for screenwriting, died in New York City on 1 August 1981. He wrote Marty, The Hospital, and Network, the last a scathing satire of television news that proved prophetic. His 1976 Network screenplay is widely regarded as one of the finest in film history.