"He who hesitates is a ... fool."
Mae West

West had experienced first hand this decade and her quote expresses the people's feelings of the era. The 1920's were the decade after the "Great War." After witnessing war in the 1910's many people changed their views on how to live their lives. They decided that they would now life their life to the fullest. One exceptional year of this idea was 1923. The economy had boosted and many new inventions such as the refrigerator and the elevator were invented. Many new clubs such as the Cotton Club were opened. 1923 was the year Hitler made an appearance and the year President Harding had passed on due to a heart attack.

• January 20 - The Nobel Prize is awarded for the discovery of Insulin between Frederick G. Banting and John J.R. Macleod
• February 17 - the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen
• March 4 - Flood Control Act - An Act to continue the reconstruction of the Mississippi River to contain its floods.
• March 31 (Begins) - History of Jazz Timeline
• April 18 Yankee Stadium Opens(the Stadium the Ruth built)
• May 23^rd  Sabena, a Belgian airline is founded
• May, 1923 - Wrigley Gum is processed
• July 15 - The  Alaskan Railroad was completed
• August 2 - Warren G. Harding dies. Calvin Coolidge is sworn in on the following day.
• September 1 - The Great Quanto Earthquake in Japan that destroyed Tokyo.
• September 17 - Berkeley Conflagration (a fire) in San Francisco, California
• October 10 - The New York Giants vs. The New York Yankees World Series
• November 8 - Adolph Hitler, 34, stages a "Beer Hall Putsch" at Munich November 8 as the mark falls to below 1 trillion to the dollar.
• November 20 - Automatic Traffic Signal patented by Garrett Morgan
•  Elizabeth Johnson Harris dies (an influential poet)
• Peterson elevators -The first elevator
• "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex". Three years after women won the right to vote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is introduced in Congress by Senator Curtis and Representative Anthony, both Republicans.
• Robert Andrews Millikan -Nobel Prize (Physics 1923)
• The second Ku Klux Klan Movement in U.S. history grows, and stirs up violence across the nation.
• The first Cotten Club opens in the fall
• Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents the Iconoscope, the first television transmission tube. He patents the first color tube in 1925.
• Whopping Cough Vaccine is developed
• Harry Steenbock discovers that radiating food with ultraviolet light adds vitamin D.
• Scopolamine, previously used as a childbirth anesthetic, is found to act as a "truth" serum after tests on convicts at San Quentin Prison.
• The first legal birth control clinic in the U.S., the Clinical Research Bureau (CRB), opened
• Gannett Newspaper was founded
• Charleston dance introduced
• Hertz the car rental service opens up
• Nation Rail Road opens
• The Milky Way Candy Bar is invented
• The Butterfinger is invented

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