Editing 1923 (section)

=== July–August ===
{{Main|July 1923|August 1923}}
* [[July 10]] – Large hailstones kill 23 people in [[Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast|Rostov]], [[Soviet Union]].
* [[July 13]] 
** The [[Hollywood Sign]] is inaugurated in [[California]] (originally reading ''Hollywoodland'').
** American explorer [[Roy Chapman Andrews]] discovers the first dinosaur eggs near [[Flaming Cliffs]], Mongolia.
* [[July 20]] – [[Pancho Villa]] is assassinated at [[Hidalgo del Parral]], [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]].
* [[July 24]] – The [[Treaty of Lausanne (1923)]], settling the boundaries of the modern [[Republic of Turkey]], is signed in Switzerland by [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]], [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] and other countries that fought in the First World War, bringing an end to the [[Ottoman Empire]] after 624 years.
* [[July]] – [[Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic]] (Germany) sees the number of marks needed to purchase a single American dollar reach 353,000 – more than 200 times the amount needed at the start of the year.
* [[August 2]] – Vice President [[Calvin Coolidge]] becomes the 30th [[president of the United States]], upon the death of President [[Warren G. Harding]] in San Francisco.
* [[August 13]]
** The first major seagoing ship arrives at Gdynia, the newly constructed [[Second Polish Republic|Polish]] seaport.
** [[Gustav Stresemann]] is named [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]], and founds a [[coalition government]] for the [[Weimar Republic]], where hyperinflation means that more than 4,600,000 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.
* [[August 18]] – [[1923 WAAA Championships|The first British Track & Field championships for women]] are held in London.
* [[August 30]] – Hurricane season begins, with a tropical storm northeast of the [[Turks and Caicos Islands]].
* [[August 31]] – The Italian navy [[Corfu incident|occupies Corfu]], in retaliation for the murder of an Italian officer. The [[League of Nations]] protests, and the occupation ends on [[September 30]].