100 Years Ago Today

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29th May 1923

Ship Losses:

Lady Shea (United Kingdom) The schooner sprang a leak and sank off Port Maria, Jamaica.

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30th May 1923

Ship Losses:

Waterway (United Kingdom) The cargo ship capsized at Nantes, Loire-Atlantique.

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31st May 1923

Cowboys at White House, 5/31/23


Ship Losses:

Ranan Maru (Japan) The cargo liner ran aground at Qingdao, China. All passengers and crew were rescued. She was refloated on 5 June.

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1st June 1923

The U.S. state of New York became the first to repeal enforcement of the nationwide prohibition of the sale of alcohol, as Governor Alfred E. Smith signed the bill repealing the Mullen-Gage law. (The Federal prohibition law remained in force).


Ship Losses:

Shoyei Maru (Japan) The cargo ship was wrecked on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Soviet Union.

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2nd June 1923

French boxer Eugène Criqui knocked out Johnny Kilbane in the sixth round at the Polo Grounds in New York City to win the World Featherweight Title. Babe Ruth hurried over from Yankee Stadium to attend the bout.

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3rd June 1923

Director Cecil B. De Mille (left) introducing War Secretary John Weeks (right) to Charles De Roche, garbed as Rameses II for the film "The Ten Commandments".


Ship Losses:

Graphic (United Kingdom) The passenger ship collided with Balsam ( United States) in Belfast Lough and sank off Carrickfergus, County Antrim. All 120 people on board were rescued. She was refloated on 24 June.

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4th June 1923

Jockey Frank Hayes dies in the saddle after his horse won the steeplechase at Belmont Park. (Clip from the June 5, 1923 Owensboro, Kentucky, Register)


Juan Soldevilla y Romero, 79, Spanish cleric, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zaragoza, who had been elevated to the rank of cardinal by the Pope, was assassinated by gunmen who also killed his chauffeur.


Ship Losses:

Trevessa (United Kingdom) The cargo ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and Mauritius (28°45′N 85°42′E). Her crew took to two lifeboats. Some survivors reached land after 24 days at sea.

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5th June 1923

In Germany, French troops seized the last important railways in the Ruhr..

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6th June 1923

Ship Losses:

USS Cardinal (United States Navy) The Lapwing-class minesweeper ran aground on the eastern coast of Chirikof Island in the Gulf of Alaska and was wrecked without loss of life. The oiler Cuyama ( United States Navy) and the survey ship USC&GS Discoverer ( United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) rescued her crew.

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7th June 1923

Operator strike: Photo shows girls being escorted from the executive building to branch office switchboards, where they took the places left vacant by the striking girls. Policemen guarded them so that strikers could not make an attempt to threaten the strikebreakers.

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8th June 1923

The British House of Commons passed a bill giving women the right to divorce their husbands on the grounds of infidelity, without having to prove cruelty or desertion.


Ship Losses:

Lark (United Kingdom) The Thames barge collided with Edmee ( United Kingdom) in the River Thames at Millwall, London and sank.

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9th June 1923

"The first passenger plane for Berlin-London Air Service is completed and preparations for its first intercity flight are being made in both capitals. The plane, which is an Albatross de luxe model, is elaborately furnished for the passengers' comfort."

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10th June 1923

"Pancho Villa is crazy about playing the drums in a jazz outfit, and the little Filipino can really make the feet shuffle too. After a strenuous day of training, he nestles down into his place in the orchestra and forgets everything except the good time he is having."


Ku Klux Klan Funeral, Washington DC.


Ship Losses:

Maidan (United Kingdom) The cargo liner ran aground on St. John's Island, Egypt and sank.

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11th June 1923

"Fifty Shots Fail to Kill Monster in All Day Fight" (Fishermen at Long Key, Florida reported harpooning a 20,000 pound sea monster. They said it continued to fight even after fifty rounds of ammunition had been fired into it.)


Ship Losses:

Nivelle (United Kingdom) The cargo ship came ashore at Lizard Head, Cornwall. Her twenty crew were rescued by the Lizard Lifeboat. She was refloated on 25 June.

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12th June 1923

"Bandits Let Americans Go; Clears Crisis (Bulletin)"/"Body Guard Seizes Deposed Premier— Stamboulisky Has Been Arrested by His Own Soldiers, Prague Hears".

Ship Losses:

Unknown fishing vessel (Japan) The fishing vessel was sunk in a collision with the cruiser Isuzu ( Imperial Japanese Navy) during the cruiser's trials, probably off Tokyo. Both crewmen were rescued.