Four Score And Seven Years Ago: 1923

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January 17 – Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor.

March 2 – Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time.

March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers his third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.

# May 9 – Southeastern Michigan receives a record 6 inches of snow after temperatures plummeted from 62 to 34 degrees between 1 and 6 pm on the previous day.

# May 23 – Belgium's SABENA Airlines is created.

July 19 – July 20 – Pancho Villa is assassinated at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua.

* September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people.

October 16 – Roy and Walt Disney Founded The Walt Disney Company.

November 8 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government; police and troops crush the attempt the next day.

November 15 – The hyperinflation in Germany reaches its height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000,000 Papiermark (4.2 quadrillion). Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency (see inflation in the Weimar Republic).

Vladimir Zworykin files the first patent for colour television.

United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)

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