Weeks and weeks have gone by since the last Week of the Week, leaving many Week of the Week fans feeling quite weak. So this week I present another historic week as our Week of the Week.<\/p>\n
This week’s Week of the Week is 22-28 July 1923<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sunday 22 July 1923 – Charles Hoff of Norway sets a new pole vault world record of 4.21m. Of course, there are very few of us who couldn’t have recited those historic events from this unforgettable week off\u00c2\u00a0by heart.\u00c2\u00a0It is probably one of the best-known\u00c2\u00a0weeks ever.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weeks and weeks have gone by since the last Week of the Week, leaving many Week of the Week fans feeling quite weak. So this week I present another historic week as our Week of the Week. This week’s Week of the Week is 22-28 July 1923. Sunday 22 July 1923 – Charles Hoff of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris","category-week-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMonday 23 July 1923 – Michael Melvin dies of chronic nephritis in east St Louis, USA,\u00c2\u00a0aged 72 years, 6 months and 11 days.
\nTuesday 24 July 1923 – the Treaty of Lausanne is signed, creating modern Turkey.
\nWednesday 25 July 1923 – Cathal O’Shannon speaks in the Irish parliament, asking about provision for an Officer of Communications.
\nThursday 26 July 1923 – The Observer<\/em> prints a photograph of “music by wireless”.
\nFriday 27 July 1923 – Science<\/em> journal publishes vol. 58 issue 1491, including an article on “Paleontological Finds in Moravia” by A. Hrdlicka.
\nSaturday 28 July 1923 – Major Thomas Arthur Hughes (son of Patrick Hughes, of course) marries Kathleen Byles.<\/p>\n