1920

1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)

Years: 1917 1918 1919 - 1920 - 1921 1922 1923
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Contents

1 Events

1.1 January
1.2 February
1.3 March
1.4 April-May
1.5 June-July
1.6 August-September
1.7 October-November
1.8 December
1.9 Undated

2 Births

2.1 January
2.2 February-March
2.3 April-July
2.4 August-December

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes

Events

January

January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk.
January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans.
January 10 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
January 15 - Prohibition goes into effect in the United States with the Eighteenth Amendment coming into effect.
January 16 - Allies demand that the Netherlands extradite the German Kaiser, who has fled there.
January 19 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
January 22 - The Australian Country Party is officially formed.
January 23 - The Netherlands refuses to extradite the German Kaiser.
January 28 - The Spanish legion is founded and stationed in North Africa to fight rebels in Morocco.
January 28 - Turkey gives up the Ottoman Empire and all non-Turkish areas.

February

February 1 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
February 2 - Estonia's independence is recognised.
February 2 - France occupies Memel.
February 9 - League of Nations gives Spitzbergen to Norway.
February 10 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
February 17 - Woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to mental hospital, where she claims she is Anastasia.
February 14 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
February 22 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race 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 - Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary
March 1 - The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
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.
March 26 - The Black and Tans special constables arrive in Ireland
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-May

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 - French troops occupy Frankfurt.
April 19 - Germany and Bolshevist Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war.
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 Ukrainian troops attack Soviet army occupying Ukraine.
May 7 - Polish-Soviet War: Polish troops occupy Kyiv. Ukrainian government returns to the city.
May 16 - Referendum in Switzerland is favorable to joining League of Nations.
May 16 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
May 17 - French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.
May 17 - First flight of KLM, Dutch air company, from Amsterdam to London.
May 27 - Thomas Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia.
May 29 - Great Horncastle flood. 20 people killed.

June-July

June 4 - Treaty of Trianon, Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Hungary.
June 12 - Polish-Soviet War: Red Army retakes Kyiv.
June 15 - New border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
June 22 - Greece attacks Turkish troops.
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 22 - Polish-Soviet War: Poland sues for peace with Bolshevist Russia.

* July 25 - First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.

August-September

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 signs the Treaty of Sevres.
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 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
19 August-25 August - 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.
September 8 - Gabriele D'Annunzio declares Fiume a free state.
September 16 - The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City - 39 dead, 400 injured
September 22 - Flying Squad formed in London Metropolitan Police.
September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – Westinghouse radio costs $10.
September 29 - Adolf Hitler's makes first public political speech, in Austria.

October-November

October 9 ? Polish troops take Vilnius
October 10 - The outwitted Carinthian Plebiscite, where Slovenia loses a larger part of Carinthia Province.
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
November 2 - Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox in the U.S. presidential election, the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
November 2 - In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
November 11 - Unknown Soldier buried in Westminster Abbey.
November 15 - In Geneva, the first assembly of the League of Nations is held.
November 17 - Council of League of Nations accepts the constitution of Danzig free state.
November 21 - Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a Football match in Dublin's Croke Park, following the assassinations of 12 British agents.

December

December 1 - Álvaro Obregón becomes president of Mexico.
December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
December 11 - Martial law in Ireland.
December 16 - Finland joins the League of Nations.
December 16 - 8.6 Richter scale Earthquake causes landslide in Gansu Province, China - 180.000 dead.
December 23 - United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-held Syria and British-held Palestine.

Undated

Number of US Americans move to Paris to escape the Prohibition
France prohibits selling of contraceptives.
Roman Ungern von Sternberg conquers Urga and declares himself as a ruler of Mongolia.
Kurd rebellion in Turkey begins.
Johnny Torrio invites Al Capone to Chicago from New York.

Births

January

January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
January 2 - Isaac Asimov, author (d. 1992)
January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
January 6 - Early Wynn, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1999)
January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
January 19 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, United Nations Secretary General
January 20 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
January 20 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
January 20 - John O'Connor , Cardinal of New York City
January 23 - Ray Abrams , tenor saxophonist
January 23 - Gottfried Böhm , architect
January 27 - Frankie Albert , American football star
January 30 - Delbert Mann, American television and director
January 31 - Paul Warnke , diplomat

February-March

February 7 - An Wang, computer pioneer (d. 1990)
February 11 - Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976)
February 11 - Daniel Francis Galouye , American science fiction author
February 11 - Farouk I, last King of Egypt (d. 1965)
February 11 - Paul Peter Piech, artist (d. 1996)
February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000)
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 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
February 29 - Howard Nemerov, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (d. 1991)
March 3 - Ronald Searle, British cartoonist
March 3 - James Doohan, Canadian actor
March 14 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
March 15 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
March 16 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
March 17 - Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
March 19 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002)
March 25 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)

April-July

April 1 - Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
April 2 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)
April 5 - Arther Hailey , American writer
April 7 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
April 10 - Frank Cavaliero , pigeon racer and real estate tycoon
April 11 - Peter O'Donnell, creator of Modesty Blaise
April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz, professor of psychiatry and writer
April 13 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of Ireland
April 27 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
April 29 - Harold Shapero, composer
May 2 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
May 6 - Ross Hunter , producer
May 6 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister and President of Fiji (d. 2004)
May 9 - Richard Adams, English author
May 18 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
May 18 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
May 23 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
May 26 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, American film and television director (d. 1989)
June 12 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (Mad Magazine) (d. 2002)
July 17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president
July 21 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)

August-December

August 8 - Leo Chiosso, Italian poet
August 16 - Charles Bukowski, writer (d. 1994)
August 18 - Bob Kennedy, Major League Baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, basis for the Winnie the Pooh character Christopher Robin (d. 1996)
August 22 - Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer
August 29 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist and composer
September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
September 14 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer
September 22 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. ])
October 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
October 1 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor (d. 2001)
October 8 - Frank Herbert, American author (d. 1986)
October 9 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
October 15 - Mario Puzo, American author (d. 1999)
October 31 - Fritz Walter, German football player (d. 2002)
November 21 - Stan Musial, Baseball Hall of Famer
November 23 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)
November 25 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, Raja of Perlis and 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2000)
December 6 - Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet World War II heroine (d. 1944)

Deaths

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 mathetmatician (b. 1839)
January 7 - Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
January 18 - Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (b. 1825)
January 24 - William Percy French, Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. 1854)
January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884)
January 24 - William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, British diplomat and administrator (b. 1864)
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 - Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu (b. 1872)
February 20 - Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (b. 1856)
February 27 - William Sherman Jennings, Governor of Florida (b. 1863)
March 1 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama (b. 1842)
March 1 - William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1846)
March 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
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 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon (b. 1834)
March 26 - Mary Augusta Ward, Tasmanian novelist (b. 1851)
March 31 - Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (b. 1837)
March 31 - Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland (b. 1848)
April 8 - John Brashear, American astronomer (b. 1840)
April 8 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
April 9 - Moritz Cantor, 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 9 - Agnes Macdonald, wife of John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1836
May 11 - James Colosimo, Italian-born gangster (b. 1877)
May 11 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
May 16 - Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States (b. 1824)
May 21 - Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (b. 1859)
May 21 - Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist (b. 1868)
May 23 - Svetozar Borojevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshall (b. 1856)
May 30 - George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer (b. 1862)
June 5 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (b. 1840)
June 5 - Julia A. Moore, American poet (b. 1847)
June 6 - James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician (b. 1851)
June 13 - Essad Pasha, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1863)
June 14 - Gabrielle Réjane, French actress (b. 1856)
June 14 - Max Weber, German political economist (b. 1864)
June 18 - Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (b. 1835)
June 18 - John Macoun, Irish born naturalist (b. 1831)
June 20 - Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. 1839)
June 20 - John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1838)
June 27 - Adolphe Basile Routhier, Canadian who wrote the words to the national anthem (b. 1839)
July 1 - Delfim Moreira, President of Brazil (b. 1868)
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 - Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana (b. 1863)
August 1 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (b. 1856)
August 2 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt flyer (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 German astronomer (b. 1854)
August 16 - Henry Daglish, Premier of Australia (b. 1866)
August 16 - Joseph Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (b. 1836)
August 17 - Ray Chapman, Major League 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 4 - Flora Sheldon, grandmother of George H. W. Bush (b. 1852)
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 2 - Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator from Massachusetts (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)
October 24 - Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853)
November 4 - Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1858)
November 13 - Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
November 23 - George Callaghan, British admiral (b. 1852)
November 25 - Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile race driver and manufacturer (b. 1892)
November 30 - Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (b. 1852)
December 3 - William de Wiveleslie Abney, English astronomer and photographer (b. 1843)
December 11 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
December 12 - Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. 1854)
December 14 - George Gipp, American college football player (b. 1895)

Nobel Prizes

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