Historical Events in 1923
73 curated events dated to this year, and 199 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1923
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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End of Irish Civil War
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Hubble Proves Existence of Other Galaxies
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Jean Toomer's Cane Published
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Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey
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Publication of 'Harmonium'
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Publication of 'Spring and All'
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Publication of 'The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems'
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Publication of 'The Lunar Baedecker'
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Publication of 'The Prophet'
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Publication of 'The Wilderness' Poetry Collection
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The Global Charleston Craze Defines the Jazz Age
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Arnold Schoenberg Introduces Twelve-Tone Technique
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Cecile Steele's Commercial Broiler Flock
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Iconoscope Television Camera Tube
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Jones appears in Kerlin's Negro Poets and Their Poems
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Martin Buber Publishes 'I and Thou'
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Play 'The Charming Conscience' produced successfully in California
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Publication of 'The Black Flower'
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Publication of 'The Cone' in 'The Crisis'
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Publication of 'The New Poetry'
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Publication of 'The Poet's Way'
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Publication of 'The Silver Poppy'
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Publication of Black Armour
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Recognition by Poetry Society of America
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Relocation to Dublin
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The Great Kanto Earthquake and Mass Insurance Failure in Japan
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Award of Aonach Tailteann Medal (1923)
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Beer Hall Putsch
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Bengali 'Maimansingha Gitika' Folk Ballads Collected
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Brazilian Eloy Chaves Law Creates Railway Pension Funds
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Dandridge appears in Negro Poets and Their Poems
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Execution of Edith Thompson and Freddy Bywaters
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First Aerial Refueling (Pilot to Pilot)
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First Comhairle na nGaedheal Government
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First Domestic Electric Refrigerator Success
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Honorary Doctorate from University of California
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Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic
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Marriage to Eileen O'Connor
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Marriage to Eugen Boissevain
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Marriage to Helen Van Doren
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Marriage to William Rose Benét
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May Sinclair writes A Cure of Souls and publishes Uncanny Stories
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Poetry Editor Role at Vanity Fair
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Publication of 'Jennifer Lorn'
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Publication of 'The Collected Poems'
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Publication of 'The Life of Sir Edmund Gosse'
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Publication of novel 'Blindfold'
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Separation from Stephen Haweis
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Taggard Publishes Hawaiian Hilltop
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The 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake Korean Massacre Panic
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Vladimir Zworykin's Electronic Television System
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Birth of First Son, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway
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Cotton Club Reopens in Harlem
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Cullen addresses the League of Youth in New York
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Earthquake-Resistant Housing Innovations in Japan
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Establishment of Interpol Predecessor
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Final Publication: 'The Life of the Spirit'
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Gwendolyn Bennett First Poem Publication
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International Pacific Halibut Commission
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Invention of the Iconoscope
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Involvement with the Poetry Society of America
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Langston Hughes Travels to Africa
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Marriage to Margaret Gorman
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Marriage to Margaret Turner
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The 'Mount Isa' Lead-Silver-Zinc Discovery, Australia
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The Discovery of the 'Oviraptor' Nest
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The Steam-Powered 'Flying Scotsman' is Built
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William Carlos Williams Writes Insect Poems in the American Imagist Tradition
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First Autogyro Flight
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Founding Involvement with Cherry Lane Theatre (1923–1924)
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Marriage to Frances
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Marriage to James W. Bennett
Poets alive in 1923
199 poets
Poets in 1923
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