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13th June 1923

Casper Daily Tribune: Civil War In Bulgaria.


President Li Yuanhong of China abandoned his residence because a warlord had commanded forces to surround the mansion and cut off its water and electric supplies in order to force him to abandon his post. He was captured at the railway station in Tientsin by troops.


Ship Losses:

Agnes (United States) The schooner was sunk in a collision with the trawler Alden Mills (flag unknown) in the main channel of Boston Harbour off the fish pier. One crewman was killed.

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14th June 1923

Navy colour guard, Flag Day.


(Flag Day) Photo taken on Flag Day at the Post office building, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

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15th June 1923

Persia: Up to 20,000 were reported dead after an earthquake caused an avalanche that buried five villages.

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16th June 1923

The Yakut Revolt, the last resistance by the White Army to the Soviet Union in the Russian Civil War, ended as the remaining 333 officers and soldiers of the White Army surrendered the port town of Ayan to the Red Army.

District Naval Reserve

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17th June 1923

"Ruhr Begs for U.S. Aid; French Cut Off Food" (The French occupied Dortmund railway station, leaving only one line leading from the Ruhr into unoccupied Germany. Rioting broke out in Brandenburg in Germany over the rapidly increasing prices of goods due to hyperinflation.)

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18th June 1923

Pancho Villa, a diminutive (5'1" or 154 cm) Philippine boxer whose real name was Francisco Guilledo, won the world flyweight championship when he knocked out the titleholder, Welsh boxer Jimmy Wilde, in the seventh round before 40,000 spectators at the Polo Grounds in New York City.


Ship Losses:

Tensho Maru (Japan) The cargo ship came ashore at Hakodate and was wrecked.

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19th June 1923

Ship Losses:

Ymer (Sweden) The cargo ship ran aground and sank at Sandkamn. Her crew were rescued.

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20th June 1923

U.S. President Warren G. Harding left Washington D.C. for the last time, and would never return. President Harding embarked on a cross-country speaking tour which he called the "Voyage of Understanding", set to take him through much of the 48 U.S. states.

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21st June 1923

Two wealthy women walking briskly away from a woman begging at the Ascot Horse Race.


Ship Losses:

Tokahachi Maru (Japan) The cargo ship collided with Kelio Maro ( Japan) at Hakodate and sank.

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22nd June 1923

A crowd of Londoners listens to a mobile radio disguised as a thatched cottage. The mobile radio travels around the country broadcasting concerts to interested locals.


Ship Losses:

Keisshin Maru No.3 (Japan) The cargo ship collided with Kizukawa Maru ( Japan) at Kobe and sank.
Maindy Grange (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground at Pointe de Penmarc'h, Finistère, France. She was refloated on 25 June.

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23rd June 1923

Albert Einstein is photographed for his passport.


Ship Losses:

Arantxa Mendi (Spain) The cargo ship ran aground at Cape Trafalgar. She was refloated on 27 June.
Caraquet (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was wrecked at Hamilton, Bermuda.

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24th June 1923

The French Chamber of Deputies debated whether to give the colony of the French West Indies to the United States as payment of war debt. Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré said, "I never would permit such a proposal to be officially made to the French government."


Commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of Walter Rathenau in Berlin: Republican associations at the departure from the Reichstag building to Rathenau's grave in Oberschoeneweide in the district of Berlin.


Ship Losses:

Tenshin Maru (Japan) The cargo ship ran aground in the Hirado Strait. She was refloated on 28 June.

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25th June 1923

Ship Losses:

Caraquet (United Kingdom) The cargo liner ran aground on the Northern Reefs, Bermuda. Her passengers were taken off.

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26th June 1923

Ship Losses

Cornelia (United States) The tug was destroyed by fire at New York.

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27th June 1923

Pope Pius XI condemned the occupation of the Ruhr, taken by French and Belgian troops in Germany to secure payment of reparations. A letter was publicized in which he warned that it could lead to the "final ruin of Europe".


Ship Losses:

Sicily (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River, Argentina. She was refloated on 5 July.