1923

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1923
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Events

• Indy informes his father that he had switched his studies from linguistics to archaeology.
• Sigmund Freud publishes a book called The Ego and the Id.
• Paul Robeson enters in Columbia University for a law degree.
• The Iconoscope or television camera tube is patented.
• Primitive "talkies" (movies with both picture and sound on the film) is demonstrated.
• The first nonstop American transcontinental flight is made in 27 hours.
• The British Colonial Office attempts to settle the racial problems in Kenya.
• France and Belgium invade the Ruhr district to force Germany to pay war reparations.
• Spain becomes a dictatorship under General Primo de Rivera.
• Mussolini begins creation of a fascist state in Italy.
• Rodrigo Collente, a wine merchant from Barcelona, comes in possession of a copy of The Malleus Maleficarum when he bought a villa near the French Riviera.
• Turkey proclaimed a republic under Mustafa Kemal.
• British grant limited self-government to Rhodesia.
• Earthquakes destroy Tokyo and Yokohama.
• Gershwin writes Rhapsody in Blue.
• Howard Carter's adventures in Egypt spark a King Tut craze.
• Charleston craze begins.
• First dance marathon is held.
• Montgomery Bryce graduates from Oxford University.
• Heinrich Hörner Aktiengesellschaft establish König Salomons Grube within Meroë, Sudan.
• Munich Beer Hall Putsch: Adolf Hitler attempts a coup of the republican government with his newly formed Nazi militia -- storm troopers are sent in to surround leading government officials in a Munich beer hall who were then forced to swear loyalty to the "revolution." This leads to Hitler's arrest for high treason.
• Reilly's Smithy is established.
• April 6: The New York Times publishes severals articles, including one about Carnarvon's death and one about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's illness.
• June 2: Lady Eleanora Ferrers-Lansdowne sends Henry Jones Sr. a letter with information concerning Richard Francis Burton and a Moor who had seen the Holy Grail.
• June 19: Henry Jones Sr. is found in Princeton, New Jersey looking for atlases that match his geographical information sent by Lady Eleanora Ferrers-Lansdowne.

Deaths

• Ibrahim in Cairo, Egypt
• Sophie Freud's son
• April: Lord Carnarvon
• July 20: Pancho Villa in Mexico.

Appearances

• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Revolution (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones et le Secret de la Pyramide
• Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the White Witch (Indirect mention)
• Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (Mentioned only)

Sources

• Grail Diary
• Who Are Those Guys? (Non-fiction source)
• Birth of a Nation (Non-fiction source)
• Sigmund Freud (Non-fiction source)
• Indiana Jones Explores Ancient Egypt (Non-fiction source)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook
• The World of Indiana Jones
• Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun
• Indiana Jones Artifacts
•  Adolf Hitler on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
• Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun (Non-fiction source)
• New Gods for Old (Non-fiction source)
• Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name (Non-fiction source)

External links

• 1923 on Wikipedia