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1923
 
    
The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body?       
1923
 
    
Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture       
1923
 
    
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York       
1923
 
    
Zoltan Kod´ly's work for tenor, chorus and orchestra, Psalmus Hungaricus, has its first performance in Budapest       
1923
 
   
Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital      
1923
 
    
Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231, inspired by the sounds of a steam train, has its first performance in Paris       
1924
 
     
Winston Churchill, accepting the position of chancellor of the exchequer in Baldwin's cabinet, returns to the Conservative party        
1924
 
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Lenin's death is followed by an intense power struggle in the Kremlin between Stalin, Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev       
1924
 
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A general election brings in Britain's first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, at the head of a minority government      
1924
 
     
Sean O'Casey's second play Juno and the Paycock is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin