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Everything about 1920 totally explainedYear 1920 ( MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1920
January
February
February 1 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
February 2
February 7 - Admiral Kolchak and Viktor Pepelyayev are executed by firing squad near Irkutsk.
February 9 - League of Nations gives Spitsbergen to Norway.
February 10 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
February 14 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
February 17 -A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she's Anastasia.
February 22 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog racing track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
February 24 - Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist program in Munich.
March
March - World's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.
March 1
March 10 - The Baylor Business Men's Club changes its name to the Baylor University Chamber of Commerce. It has operated under this name since the change.
March 13-March 17 - Wolfgang Kapp fails in his coup attempt in Germany due to public resistance and a general strike.
March 15 - Red Army of Ruhr, communist army 60.000 men strong, formed
March 19 - US Congress refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty.
March 23 - Admiral Horthy declares that Hungary is a monarchy without anyone on the throne.
March 26
- German government asks France for permission to use its own troops against rebellious Ruhr Red Army in the French-occupied area.
- The Black and Tans special constables arrive in Ireland.
March 28 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 hits the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
March 29 - Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private
March 31 - Government of Ireland Act 1920 is presented in British parliament.
April
April 2 - German army marches to Ruhr to fight Red Ruhr Army.
April 4 - Jerusalem pogrom of April, 1920 . Violence between Arabic and Jewish resident in Jerusalem . governor declares the state of siege
April 6 - The short-lived Far Eastern Republic declared in eastern Siberia
April 11 - Mexican Revolution - Álvaro Obregón flees from Mexico City during a trial intended to ruin his reputation - he flees to Guerrero where he joins Fortunato Maycotte
April 19 - Germany and Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
April 20 - Álvaro Obregón announces in Chilpancingo that he intends to fight against the rule of Venustiano Carranza
April 23 - National council in Turkey denounces the government of sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
April 24 - Polish-Soviet War: Polish and Anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops attack the Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.
April 26 - the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic is officially created by Bolshevist Russia as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva.
May
May 2 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
May 7
May 9 - Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City
May 15 - Maria Bochkareva executed in Soviet Russia
May 16 -
May 17
- French and Belgian troops leave the cities they've occupied in Germany.
- First flight of KLM, Dutch air company, from Amsterdam to London.
May 20 - Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo. Troops of Rodolfo Herrera attack him at night and shoot him
May 24 - Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico City - all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president
May 27 - Tomáš Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia.
May 29 - Great Horncastle flood. 20 people killed.
June
June 4 - Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
June 12 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army retakes Kyiv.
June 13 - The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post
June 15 - New border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
June 22 - Greece attacks Turkish troops.
July
July 1 - Germany declares its neutrality in the war between Poland and Soviet Russia
July 2 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army continues offensive into Poland.
July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.
July 12 - Bolshevist Russia recognizes independent Lithuania.
July 13 - London County Council bars foreigners from council jobs.
July 14 - France declares that Faisal I of Syria is deposed and occupies Damascus and Aleppo.
July 19 – August 7 – The Second Congress of the Communist International took place in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The notorious Twenty-one Conditions were adopted.
July 20 – The United Kingdom cedes its brief control of the key Black Sea port of Batum to the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
July 22 - Polish-Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia.
July 23 - The French defeat the Syrian army in the Battle of Maysalun.
July 25 - First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast?
July 26 - Pancho Villa takes over Sabina and contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his surrender in July 28
July 29 - The United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
July 31 - France prohibits the sale or prescription of contraceptives.
August
August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in Ireland, suspending jury trials.
August 3 - Catholics riot in Belfast.
August 10 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres.
August 11 - Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia.
August 13 - August 25 - Polish-Soviet War: The Red Army is defeated in the Battle of Warsaw.
August 15 - Town Hall of Templemore, Ireland, is burned down during the riots.
August 18 - Amendment 19 allowed women the right to vote under constitutional protection.
August 19-August 25 - Second Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
August 20 - The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
August 26 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
September
September 4 - El Tercio de Extranjeros, the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day Spanish Legion) inaugurated in Spain
September 5 - Presidential elections begin in Mexico
September 8 - Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume.
September 16 - The Wall Street bombing: a hi cordell bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City - 38 dead, 400 injured
September 20 - The first soldier joins the Spanish Legion.
September 22 - Flying Squad formed in London Metropolitan Police.
September 29
October
October 9 - Polish troops take Vilnius
October 10 - In the Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of Carinthia Province votes to become part of Austria rather than of the Yugoslavia.
October 12 - Polish-Soviet War After Polish army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.
October 18 - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
October 26 - Álvaro Obregón is announced elected president of Mexico
October 27 - League of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneva, Switzerland
November
November 2
November 11 - Unknown Soldier buried in Westminster Abbey.
November 15 - In Geneva, the first assembly of the League of Nations is held.
November 16 - Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services (Qantas) is founded by Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinniss.
November 17 - The council of the League of Nations accepts the constitution for the Free City of Danzig.
November 21 - Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a football match in Dublin's Croke Park, killing 14 Irish civilians. This followed the assassinations of 12 British agents by the IRA in an earlier attack elsewhere.
November 28 - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at Kilmichael, County Cork, in the Kilmichael Ambush
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's first concert in the world along with martha Washington.
December
December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
December 11 - Martial law in Ireland.
December 16
December 22 - The 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR adopts GOELRO plan, the major plan of the economical development of the country.
December 23 - United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-held Syria and British-held Palestine.
December 25 - Foundation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship's Spiritual Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California (United States).
Ongoing
Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
Births
January-February
January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
January 2 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992), Anne-Sofie Østvedt, Norweigan resistance leader
January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
January 6
January 9 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (d. 1998)
January 12 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998)
January 19 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
January 20
January 23 - Gottfried Böhm, German architect
January 27 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
January 30 - Delbert Mann, American television and film director
February 2 - Heikki Suolahti, Finnish composer (d. 1936)
February 7 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
February 11
February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (d. 2000)
February 13 - Seneka Bibile, Sri Lankan pharmacologist (d. 1977)
February 17 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director (d. 2001)
February 18 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
February 18 - Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (d. 1945)
February 26
February 29 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
March-April
March 3
March 4
March 10
- Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
- Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (d. 1959)
March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
March 15
March 16 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
March 19 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)
March 20 - Pamela Harriman, English-born U.S. ambassador to France (d. 1997)
March 22 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (d. 2000)
March 24 - Corbin Harney, an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. 2007)
March 25
March 27 - Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
April 1 - Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
April 2 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)
April 5 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004)
April 6 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 7 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
April 8 - Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994)
April 11 - Peter O'Donnell, British author and writer of comic strips
April 13 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of Ireland
April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
April 21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
April 29 - Harold Shapero, American composer
May-June
May 2
May 6 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004)
May 8 - Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
May 9 - Richard Adams, English author
May 11 - Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997)
May 13 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
May 18
May 23 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
May 26 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
May 28 - Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (d. 1999)
May 29 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d. 1989)
June 2 - Tex Schramm, American football executive (d. 2003)
June 12
June 16 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
June 17
June 25 - Ozan Marsh, American pianist
June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, American animator
July-August
July 4 - Leona Helmsley, Hotel operator, Realestate investor (d. 2007)
July 10 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 11 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
July 13
July 17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president
July 21 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
July 24 - Bella Abzug, American politician (d. 1998)
July 25 - Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (d. 1958)
August 1 - Sammy Lee, Korean American diver
August 2 - Reginald Hugh Hickling, British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (d. 2007)
August 3 - Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic
August 8
August 9 - Milton G. Henschel, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 5th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (d. 2003)
August 20 - Red Holzman, American basketball coach (d. 1998)
August 16 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. 1994)
August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
August 18
August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (d. 1996)
August 22 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
August 26 - Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006)
August 29 - Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
September-October
September 9 - Aldo Parisot, Brazilian/American cellist
September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
September 14
September 16 - Brittany Ellis/ voted greatest girl in Canada
September 18 - Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
September 22 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
September 23 - Mickey Rooney, American film actor
September 24 - Dick Bong, American fighter ace
September 27 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
September 29 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
October 1
October 6 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
October 8 - Frank Herbert, American author (d. 1986)
October 9 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
October 13 - Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007)
October 15 - Mario Puzo, American author (d. 1999)
October 19 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Founder Swadhyay Movement (d. 2003)
October 22 - Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996)
October 29 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 30 - Norman Bird, British character actor (d. 2005)
October 31
November-December
November 2 - Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress
November 22 - Anne Crawford, British actress (d. 1956)
November 25 - Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor
November 29 - Yegor Ligachev, Soviet politician
November 30 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
December 6
December 9 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
December 21 - J. Roderick MacArthur American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1984)
December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet World War II heroine (d. 1944)
December 30 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
December 31 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer, songwriter (d. 1999)
date unknown
Deaths
January - March
January 2 - Paul Adam, French writer (b. 1862)
January 3 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (b. 1888)
January 4 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
January 6 - Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (b. 1839)
January 7 - Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
January 18 - Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (b. 1825)
January 24
January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, model, and common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani (suicide) (b. 1898)
February 2 - Field E. Kindley, American World War I aviator (b. 1896)
February 3 - Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland (b. 1846)
February 6 - Augustus F. Goodridge, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1839)
February 7 - Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander (b. 1874)
February 15 - Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. 1837)
February 20
February 27 - William Sherman Jennings, Governor of Florida (b. 1863)
March 1
March 4 - Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1843)
March 11 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
March 13 - Charles Lapworth, English geologist (b. 1842)
March 26
March 31
April - June
April 8
April 9 - Moritz Cantor, German historian of mathematics (b. 1829)
April 21 - Maria L. Sanford, American educator (b. 1836)
April 26 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
May 1 - Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (b. 1882)
May 11
May 16 - Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States (b. 1824)
May 21
May 23 - Svetozar Borojevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1856)
May 30 - George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer (b. 1862)
June 5
June 6 - James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b. 1851)
June 13 - Essad Pasha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1863)
June 14
June 18
June 20
June 27 - Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian poet (b. 1839)
July - September
July 1 - Delfim Moreira, President of Brazil (b. 1868)
July 2 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
July 10 - John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
July 11 - Empress Eugénie of France (b. 1826)
July 14 - Albert Keller, German painter (b. 1844)
July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, American heir (b. 1849)
August 1
August 2 - Ormer Locklear, American pilot (b. 1891)
August 9 - Samuel Griffith, Australian politician and judge (b. 1845)
August 10 - Adam Politzer, Austrian otologist (b. 1835)
August 12 - Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1854)
August 16
August 17 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
August 22 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
August 26 - James Wilson, Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835)
August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832)
September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
September 10 - Olive Thomas, American actress (b. 1894)
September 18 - Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b. 1836)
September 24 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweler (b. 1846)
September 25 - Jacob Schiff, German-born banker and philanthropist (b. 1847)
September 30 - William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843)
October - December
October 2 - Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853)
October 10 - Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b. 1865)
October 19 - John Reed, American journalist (b. 1887)
October 20 - Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838)
November 21- Michael Hogan (sportsman) Was shot during a Gaelic football match by the British army who also killed 14 Irish supporters .
October 24 - Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853)
November 1 - Kevin Barry, Irish republican (hanged) (b. 1902)
November 4 - Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1858)
November 13 - Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b. < |
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