The World in 1923 the year the ground shook under tokyo

German money collapsed so fast that by November one US dollar cost about 4.2 trillion marks. Workers were paid twice a day and ran straight out to spend it, because the same notes bought less bread by evening.

Life back then

Kitchens had no refrigerator. Food sat in an icebox, a wooden cabinet holding a block of ice that a delivery man brought round every few days, and somebody had to empty the drip pan underneath. Shopping happened almost daily, since milk and meat would not keep. Music came out of a phonograph you wound up by hand, and the singing slowed to a groan if you forgot to crank it again. Sunday best really meant best, because most people owned one good outfit.

The year in 8 events

• ⚒️Jan 11 French and Belgian troops march into Germany's Ruhr valley and take over the mines, because Germany has fallen behind on its war payments.
• 📰Mar 3 The first issue of Time magazine goes on sale in New York, promising the week's news in one short read.
• ⚾Apr 18 Yankee Stadium opens in New York. Babe Ruth hits a home run in the first game there.
• 🐎Jul 20 Pancho Villa, the general who led armies in Mexico's revolution, is shot dead in an ambush at Parral.
• 🕯️Aug 2 President Warren Harding dies suddenly in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge takes over.
• 🕯️Sep 1 A huge earthquake and the fires after it destroy much of Tokyo and Yokohama. More than 100,000 people die.
• 🏛️Oct 29 Turkey becomes a republic, with Mustafa Kemal as its first president.
• ⚔️Nov 8 Adolf Hitler tries to seize power from a beer hall in Munich. The march is stopped the next day and he is sent to prison.

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