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Virginia 1923

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    UK 1923

  • First outside boradcast by the BBC

    First outside boradcast by the BBC

  • Burial chamber of Tutankhamun unsealed

    Burial chamber of Tutankhamun unsealed

    Archaeologist Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
  • Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

    Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

    Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey
  • Wembley Stadium opened

    Wembley Stadium opened

    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
  • Matrimonial Causes Act established

    Matrimonial Causes Act established

    Matrimonial Causes Act establishes equal rights in divorce for men and women, making it possible for wives to divorce husbands for adultery
  • Liquor Act

    Liquor Act

    Liquor Act makes it illegal to sell alcoholic beverages to under-18s
  • Radio Times Magazine published

    Radio Times Magazine published

    First publication of the Radio Times (BBC's weekly television and radio programme) listings magazine
  • General election won by the Conservatives

    General election won by the Conservatives

    The general election is won by the Conservative Party under Stanley Baldwin but without enough seats to form a majority
  • JJR Macleod wins Nobel Prize, discovery of insulin

    JJR Macleod wins Nobel Prize, discovery of insulin

    10 December - John James Richard Macleod wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Frederick Banting "for the discovery of insulin".
  • The chimes of Big Ben broadcasted

    The chimes of Big Ben broadcasted

    The BBC broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben for the first time