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Date |
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| 1 | 1383 | - 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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| 2 | 1832 | - 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
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| 3 | 1898 | - 7 Jul 1898—20 Aug 1959: Territory of Hawaii was Oraganized
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| 4 | 1910 | - 5 Jun 1910—20 Jan 1936: George V
House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
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| 5 | 1912 | - 8 1912—2 Jan 1959: Alaska Territory Organized
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| 6 | 1921 | |
| 7 | 1923 | - 1923—1923: First American broadcasts heard in Britain
- 1923—1923: Hubble shows there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way
- 1923—1923: Roads in Great Britain classified with A and B numbers
- 1923—1923: Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal
- 1923—1923: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
- 1923—1923: John Harwood invented the self-winding watch
- 1923—1923: Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food
- 1 Jan 1923—1 Jan 1923: The majority of the railway companies in Great Britain grouped into four main
companies, the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, LMSR - lasted until nationalisation in 1948
- 16 Feb 1923—16 Feb 1923: Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
- 8 Mar 1923—4 Mar 1929: Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies
- 28 Apr 1923—28 Apr 1923: First Wembley cup final (West Ham 0, Bolton 2) - 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles ' popular song of the time became the West Ham anthem
- 2 Aug 1923—4 Mar 1929: Calvin Coolidge
 Calvin Coolidge U.S. Presidency
- 28 Sep 1923—28 Sep 1923: First publication of Radio Times
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| 8 | 1924 | - 1924—1924: The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg
- 1924—1924: Notebooks with spiral bindings invented
- 4 Jan 1924—4 Jan 1924: First Labour government in Britain, headed by Ramsay MacDonald
- 5 Feb 1924—5 Feb 1924: Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were
first broadcast by the BBC
- 31 Mar 1924—31 Mar 1924: British Imperial Airways begins operations (formed by merger of four British
airline companies - became BOAC in 1940)
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1923 - 1924 (0 years)
Warren G. Harding U.S. Presidency