Timeline November 1923

Events in November 1923 6

• 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 Beer Hall Putsch Hitler's failed attempt to seize power in Munich Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, alongside General Erich Ludendorff, attempted to seize control of the Bavarian government in a Munich beer hall and march on Berlin. Bavarian police crushed the uprising the following day, killing several marchers, and Hitler was arrested and imprisoned. The failed coup later contributed to Hitler's national notoriety.
• 1923 – 1998 Alan Shepard (1923-1998) Died 21 July 1998, aged 74 Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into space aboard Freedom 7 in 1961 and commander of the Apollo 14 Moon landing in 1971, died of leukemia on 21 July 1998. He was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts.
• 1923 – 2014 Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) Died 13 July 2014, aged 90 Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist and Nobel laureate who chronicled the moral struggles of apartheid, died in Johannesburg. Several of her books were banned by the apartheid government during her lifetime. She remained an outspoken political and social commentator after the end of apartheid.
• 1923 – 1981 Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) American actress, the film noir femme fatale who won an Oscar for The Bad and the Beautiful.
• 1923 Gloria Grahame born in Los Angeles Gloria Grahame is born in Los Angeles.