The Reichstag enacted emergency powers that over road the constitution to deal with the ongoing economic crisis.
Thuringian Prime Minister August Frölich took three Communists into his cabinet, the second Communist victory in what the Executive Committee of the Communist Party was planning to be its German October, the Communist takeover of Germany.
As an aside, there was no Oktoberfest in 1923. The economy cancelled it.
Not content with just trying to spark a Communist revolution in Germany, the NKVD detonated the Polish munitions facility at the Warsaw Citadel. Twenty-eight Polish soldiers were killed.
Turkey moved its capital to Istanbul.
Irish Republic Army prisoners at Mountjoy prison announced a hunger strike.
The Yankees took game four of the World Series, beating the Giants 8 to 4.
