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1923
 
    
Bessie Smith has a big hit with her first record, Downhearted Blues, selling two million copies within a year       
1923
 
   
The African National Congress (ANC) is formed in South Africa by renaming the South African National Native Congress      
c. 1923
 
    
Marcel Duchamp completes his large glass construction The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even       
1923
 
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De Valera and his followers do well in elections to the Dáil but decline to take their seats       
1923
 
   
Wallace Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, sells 100 copies      
1923
 
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Stanley Baldwin becomes UK premier and leader of the Conservative party after ill health compels Bonar Law to resign       
1923
 
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Rhodesia becomes a self-governing colony with political power exclusively in the hands of European settlers      
1923
 
    
Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvâti is premiered in Paris       
1923
 
   
Robert Frost publishes a new collection of poems, New Hampshire      
1923
 
    
The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France