1923 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1923 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Andrew Bonar Law, Conservative Party (until 22 May), Stanley Baldwin, Conservative

Events

* 1 January - Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies.
* 8 January - First outside broadcast by the BBC.
* 18 January - The Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.
* 13 February - First BBC broadcast from Cardiff (station 5WA).
* 16 February - Archaeologist Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 6 March - First BBC broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).
* 26 April - Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.
* 28 April - Wembley Stadium, then known as Empire Stadium, was opened to the public for the first time and held the 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United football clubs.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=493–495]
* 22 May - Andrew Bonar Law resigns as Prime Minister due to ill-health.
* 23 May - Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister.
* 18 July - Matrimonial Causes Act establishes equal rights in divorce for men and women, making it possible for wives to divorce husbands for adultery.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 365-366|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 31 July - Liquor Act makes it illegal to sell alcoholic beverages to under-18s.
* 28 September - First publication of the "Radio Times" listings magazine.
* 10 October - First BBC broadcast from Aberdeen (station 2BD).
* 17 October - First BBC broadcast from Bournemouth (station 6BM).
* 12 November - Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie in Wellington Barracks, London.
* 16 November - First BBC broadcast from Sheffield (station 2FL).
* 6 December - the general election is won by the Conservative Party under Stanley Baldwin but without enough seats to form a majority.
* 10 December - John James Richard Macleod wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Frederick Banting "for the discovery of insulin". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1923/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 31 December - The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben for the first time.

Publications

* Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel "The Murder on the Links".
* Aldous Huxley's novel "Antic Hay".
* Dorothy L. Sayers' novel "Whose Body?", the first to feature Lord Peter Wimsey.

Births

* 8 January - Johnny Wardle, cricketer (died 1985)
* 15 January - Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humorist (died 2006)
* 4 March - Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster
* 2 April - G. Spencer-Brown, mathematician
* 4 May - Eric Sykes, comedic writer and actor
* 5 May - Richard Wollheim, philosopher (died 2003)
* 15 May - John Lanchbery, composer (died 2003)
* 21 August - Larry Grayson, comedian and game show host (died 1995)
* 29 August
** Richard Attenborough, actor and director
** Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, Chairman of the BBC (died 2006)
* 7 September - Madeleine Dring, composer and actress (died 1977)
* 22 September - Dannie Abse, poet
* 5 October - Glynis Johns, actress
* 9 October - Donald Sinden, actor
* 23 October - Sir Robin Day, political broadcaster (died 2000)
* 24 October - Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (died 1997)
* 3 November - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, clergyman (died 1990)
* 6 November - Donald Houston, actor (died 1991)
* 26 November - Pat Phoenix, actress (died 1986)
* 15 December - Freeman Dyson, physicist
* 19 December - Gordon Jackson, actor (died 1990)
* Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, geologist and glaciologist

Deaths

* 9 January - Katherine Mansfield, British novelist (born 1888)
* 27 March - Sir James Dewar, chemist (born 1842)
* 4 April - John Venn, mathematician (born 1834)
* 5 April - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (born 1866)
* 9 June - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (born 1846)
* 30 October - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1858)
* 10 December - Thomas George Bonney, geologist (born 1833)

References

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