The month of June has been home to many historical events over the years. Here’s a look at some from June 1923 that helped to shape the world.

•The Polo Grounds in New York City hosts a boxing match between Frenchman Eugène Criqui and Johnny Kilbane on June 2. Among those in attendance to see Criqui knock out Kilbane in the sixth round is New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, who arrived after a game at Yankee Stadium earlier in the day.

•On June 4, 16 men begin what becomes a 2,000-mile voyage in a single lifeboat after they are forced to abandon the British cargo ship Trevessa as it begins to sink in the Indian Ocean.

•The Soviet Army defeats what is left of the White Army near Okhotsk on June 6, ending what proves to be the last major battle of the Russian Civil War.

•On June 8, a bill is passed in the British House of Commons granting women the right to divorce their husbands on the grounds of infidelity without having to prove cruelty or desertion.

•Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski is toppled June 9 in a bloodless coup orchestrated by a private organization of reserve officers.
Stamboliyski survived the coup long enough to flee to his home village of Slavovitsa, but he is ultimately killed on June 14 by members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, a group that had attempted to assassinate him four months earlier.

•Legendary actor Lon Chaney gets the girl in “The Shock,” an American silent film released on June 10. Though Chaney often played characters who did not get the girl, “The Shock” ends with Chaney’s character, gangster Wilse Dilling, beginning a new life with Gertrude, whose freedom is assured thanks to a timely earthquake.

•On June 12, magician Horace Goldin is granted a patent for the popular illusion of sawing a woman in half. Goldin would go on to perform for U.S. Presidents Harding and Wilson and King Edward VII of Britain.

•Lou Gehrig makes his debut for the New York Yankees on June 15. Gehrig replaces first baseman Wally Pipp in the ninth inning, though this was not the most notable time Gehrig replaced Pipp. That would occur nearly two years later on June 2, 1925, when Gehrig started at first base and took over for the slumping Pipp.
Though the moment Gehrig replaced Pipp in the starting lineup is often remembered as the start of Gehrig’s consecutive games streak that would ultimately last nearly 14 years, the streak actually began a day earlier when the man eventually nicknamed “The Iron Horse” pinch hit for Pee-Wee Wanninger in the eighth inning.

•Scores of people cross the border from Northern Ireland into the neighboring Irish Free State on June 17 as a ban on Sunday alcohol sales goes into effect in the former locale.

•The popular newspaper comic strip “Moon Mullins” debuts on June 19. Created by cartoonist Frank Willard, the strip ran until June 2, 1991. It depicts the lives of diverse characters who reside in a boarding house.

•United States President Warren G. Harding departs Washington, D.C., on June 20 to begin a cross-country speaking tour. President Harding would never return to the nation’s capital, dying unexpectedly of a heart attack on August 2 in San Francisco.
Though Harding’s term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, Harding embraced technology and was sensitive to the plights of minorities and women.

•Turkey holds the first general elections in the nation’s history on June 28, following the 1919 — 1923 War of Independence.