Timeline Thursday 25 October 1923

Events on Thursday 25 October 1923 2

• 1923 Hamburg Uprising Communist rebellion fails in Weimar Germany Members of the German Communist Party staged an armed insurrection in Hamburg, seizing police stations in a bid to spark a nationwide revolution amid the year's economic and political turmoil. The poorly coordinated uprising was crushed by police within days. It marked the last major communist attempt to seize power in the Weimar Republic.
• 1923 Nobel Prize awarded for the discovery of insulin Frederick Banting and John Macleod honored for diabetes treatment The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Frederick Banting and John Macleod for the discovery of insulin, first isolated at the University of Toronto in 1921-22. Banting shared his prize money with colleague Charles Best, whom he felt had been unfairly excluded. Insulin therapy transformed diabetes from a fatal diagnosis into a manageable condition.