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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed
Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March
18, 1923 |
Tour
of Flanders |
Henri
Suter (Sui) |
243
km |
| March
25, 1923 |
Milan-San
Remo |
Costante
Girardengo (Ita) |
286.5
km |
| April
1, 1923 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Henri
Suter (Sui) |
270
km |
| May 23-June 10, 1923 |
Giro
d'Italia |
Costante
Girardengo (Ita) |
10 Stages,
3,200 km |
| June
3, 1923 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Rene
Vermandel (Bel) |
218
km |
| June
24-July 22, 1923 |
Tour
de France |
Henri
Pelissier (Fra) |
15
Stages, 5,386 km |
| October
27, 1923 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Giovanni
Brunero (Ita) |
Milan-Milan,
250.4 km |
- Japan - a massive earthquake hit Japan, 150,000 people died in Tokyo
and 100,000 in Yokohama.
- Time
Magazine - March 2, 1923, one the US’s leading magazines hit
the newsstands for the first time.
- Egypt - British archaeologist Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber
of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (King
Tut). Carter’s team became the first people
to enter Tutankhamun's tomb in over 3000 years.
- Italy - Mount Etna erupted in Sicily.
- Germany - The “Beer Hall
Putsch”, a coup d’etat against
the regional government of Bavaria failed. Adolf Hitler was arrested
and sentenced to 8 months in Landsberg Fortress.
- Germany - Inflation in Germany reached record heights. One dollar
was worth 4,200,000,000,000 Reichsmarks (4.2 trillion).
The German government
abolished the old currency and instituted the Duetsche Mark.
Notable
Deaths-
Sarah Bernhardt, 1844-1923, A French stage actress
of comic
theater and burlesque, she was the most famous actress
of the 19th
century.
1922
1924
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