LIFE 1923
Historical Highlights from 1923 :
- Adolf Hitler’s is sentenced to five years in prison where he writes Mein Kampf.
- An earthquake destroys one-third of Tokyo.
- President Warren G. Harding suddenly dies. He is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.
- Harlem’s Cotton Club opens and presents all-black performances to white-only audiences.
- German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin becomes film’s first canine star.
- Time Magazine debuts.
- Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, “Chimes Blues”, with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band.
- The first Yankee Stadium opens its doors in the Bronx, New York City.
- The Ku Klux Klan defies a law requiring publication of its members.
- Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company.
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