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Events on the year of 1920 in history

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01 Jan 1920 The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
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02 Jan 1920 10,000 US union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
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02 Jan 1920 The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
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03 Jan 1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
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04 Jan 1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
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04 Jan 1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
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05 Jan 1920 Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees
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05 Jan 1920 New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
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07 Jan 1920 The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
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08 Jan 1920 The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
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10 Jan 1920 League of Nations established
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10 Jan 1920 Montreal Canadiens (14) and Tor St. Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
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10 Jan 1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
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10 Jan 1920 Montr
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10 Jan 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
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10 Jan 1920 League of Nations' 1st meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect
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11 Jan 1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
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12 Jan 1920 Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to
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13 Jan 1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
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16 Jan 1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
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16 Jan 1920 The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
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16 Jan 1920 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
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16 Jan 1920 Georgia declares independence
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16 Jan 1920 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
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16 Jan 1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, becomes the law of the land - one year after ratification; it is repealed in 1933
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17 Jan 1920 Paul Deschanel elected President of France
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19 Jan 1920 The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
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19 Jan 1920 US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
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19 Jan 1920 Alexandre Millerand forms French government
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20 Jan 1920 The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
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20 Jan 1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
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23 Jan 1920 The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
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23 Jan 1920 Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies
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26 Jan 1920 Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
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26 Jan 1920 Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
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29 Jan 1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co
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30 Jan 1920 Qu
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31 Jan 1920 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (New York City NY) begins publication
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31 Jan 1920 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates
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31 Jan 1920 Joe Malone, Qu
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01 Feb 1920 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
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01 Feb 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
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01 Feb 1920 Soccer team Quick Boys forms
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02 Feb 1920 Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
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02 Feb 1920 France occupies (German) Memel territory
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02 Feb 1920 Tarto / Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence
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02 Feb 1920 France occupies Memel.
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02 Feb 1920 The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
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06 Feb 1920 Saarland administrated by League of Nations
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09 Feb 1920 International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
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09 Feb 1920 Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs
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09 Feb 1920 Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
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10 Feb 1920 Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
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10 Feb 1920 Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball
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12 Feb 1920 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike
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12 Feb 1920 NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
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13 Feb 1920 The Negro National League is formed.
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13 Feb 1920 National Negro Baseball League organized
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13 Feb 1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
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13 Feb 1920 Switzerland rejoins League of Nations
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14 Feb 1920 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
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14 Feb 1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
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19 Feb 1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations
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21 Feb 1920 Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, "Le Train Bleu" premieres in Paris
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22 Feb 1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
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24 Feb 1920 The Nazi Party is founded.
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24 Feb 1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
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24 Feb 1920 NSDAP begins at Hofbr
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28 Feb 1920 Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin" premieres
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29 Feb 1920 Czechoslovak National assembly adopted the Constitution.
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01 Mar 1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Admiral Horthy
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01 Mar 1920 Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
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03 Mar 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
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04 Mar 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
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08 Mar 1920 Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations
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08 Mar 1920 The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
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10 Mar 1920 NHL's Qu
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12 Mar 1920 The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
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13 Mar 1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
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13 Mar 1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
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16 Mar 1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
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18 Mar 1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
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19 Mar 1920 The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
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19 Mar 1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
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20 Mar 1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1
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20 Mar 1920 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld
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20 Mar 1920 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Sherwin Badger
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22 Mar 1920 Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
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23 Mar 1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
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24 Mar 1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
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25 Mar 1920 Greek Independence Day
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27 Mar 1920 Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed
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27 Mar 1920 Hermann M
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28 Mar 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
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28 Mar 1920 Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
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28 Mar 1920 Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia
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31 Mar 1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
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01 Apr 1920 Church disforms in Wales
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01 Apr 1920 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2
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04 Apr 1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
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06 Apr 1920 French troop attacks Main / Darmstadt / Hanau
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08 Apr 1920 LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
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13 Apr 1920 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
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14 Apr 1920 Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
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15 Apr 1920 Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
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15 Apr 1920 New Canadian small cent coin is released
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17 Apr 1920 American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)
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19 Apr 1920 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31
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20 Apr 1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
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20 Apr 1920 7th modern Olympic games open in Antwerp Belgium
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20 Apr 1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
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20 Apr 1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
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20 Apr 1920 Phillies manager Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3-run homer and beats New York Giants 3-0
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21 Apr 1920 John Galsworthy's "Skin Game", premieres in London
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23 Apr 1920 The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara, Turkey. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
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23 Apr 1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
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24 Apr 1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
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24 Apr 1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine
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25 Apr 1920 At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
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26 Apr 1920 H Shapley and H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
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27 Apr 1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
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28 Apr 1920 Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
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28 Apr 1920 Azerbaijan SSR joins the USSR (1st time)
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30 Apr 1920 Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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01 May 1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
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01 May 1920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
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02 May 1920 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
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02 May 1920 The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
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03 May 1920 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
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05 May 1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed
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05 May 1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev
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05 May 1920 US President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
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05 May 1920 Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
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07 May 1920 The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
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07 May 1920 Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
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07 May 1920 Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
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08 May 1920 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09
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09 May 1920 Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
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14 May 1920 Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
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14 May 1920 Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
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15 May 1920 Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
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16 May 1920 In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
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16 May 1920 Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome
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16 May 1920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
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17 May 1920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
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17 May 1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
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18 May 1920 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
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20 May 1920 Montreal radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
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20 May 1920 Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers & arrest 24 fans for gambling
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23 May 1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
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27 May 1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
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27 May 1920 Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR
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01 Jun 1920 RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
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04 Jun 1920 Peace of Trianon between Allies and Hungary
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04 Jun 1920 Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
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05 Jun 1920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
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06 Jun 1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
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11 Jun 1920 During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
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11 Jun 1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
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12 Jun 1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
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13 Jun 1920 Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
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15 Jun 1920 De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
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15 Jun 1920 Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
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15 Jun 1920 A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
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17 Jun 1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
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20 Jun 1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
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24 Jun 1920 Chuvash Autonomous Region formed in RSFSR
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25 Jun 1920 League of Nations places International head of Justice in Hague
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01 Jul 1920 Washingston Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
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03 Jul 1920 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64)
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03 Jul 1920 Java Technical School Bandung opens
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03 Jul 1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
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06 Jul 1920 Yankees score 14 in 5th inning and beat Washington Senators, 17-0
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10 Jul 1920 Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
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11 Jul 1920 In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
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12 Jul 1920 Lithuania and the USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
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12 Jul 1920 The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognizes independent Lithuania.
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15 Jul 1920 The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
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15 Jul 1920 Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season
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16 Jul 1920 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
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16 Jul 1920 China joins the League of Nations
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16 Jul 1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
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16 Jul 1920 Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
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16 Jul 1920 US wins Davis Cup sweeping Australia in 5 straight matches
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20 Jul 1920 Heerenveen soccer team forms
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23 Jul 1920 British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony
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23 Jul 1920 Kenya becomes a British crown colony
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25 Jul 1920 France captures Damascus.
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25 Jul 1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
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27 Jul 1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
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27 Jul 1920 Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
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29 Jul 1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
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29 Jul 1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
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29 Jul 1920 Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
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01 Aug 1920 Papendrecht soccer team forms
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01 Aug 1920 Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
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02 Aug 1920 Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in New York City
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08 Aug 1920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
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09 Aug 1920 Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
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10 Aug 1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania
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10 Aug 1920 Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
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10 Aug 1920 World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
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11 Aug 1920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
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11 Aug 1920 The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
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13 Aug 1920 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
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13 Aug 1920 Polish–Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
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14 Aug 1920 Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia andYugoslavia
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14 Aug 1920 Olympic Games open in Antwerp
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15 Aug 1920 Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
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16 Aug 1920 Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
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16 Aug 1920 The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
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16 Aug 1920 Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.
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16 Aug 1920 Ray Chapman, of the Indians is hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
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17 Aug 1920 In memory of Ray Chapman (died August 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
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18 Aug 1920 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
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18 Aug 1920 Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
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20 Aug 1920 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
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20 Aug 1920 Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
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20 Aug 1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
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21 Aug 1920 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor Country Club - Flossmoor, Illinois
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25 Aug 1920 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
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26 Aug 1920 Percy Fender (Surrey vs. Northants) scores 100 in 35 minutes
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26 Aug 1920 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
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31 Aug 1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions
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31 Aug 1920 Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
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31 Aug 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
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31 Aug 1920 The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
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01 Sep 1920 France creates Lebanon
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01 Sep 1920 New townhall of Rotterdam opens
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01 Sep 1920 The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
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04 Sep 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
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05 Sep 1920 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
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06 Sep 1920 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
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06 Sep 1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
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07 Sep 1920 Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.
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08 Sep 1920 US Air Mail service begins (NYC to San Francisco)
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12 Sep 1920 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
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16 Sep 1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
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16 Sep 1920 The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
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17 Sep 1920 Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) and 5th (2) innings
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17 Sep 1920 National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Association
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17 Sep 1920 National Football League organized in Canton Ohio
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20 Sep 1920 Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
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22 Sep 1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
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23 Sep 1920 Alexander Millerand elected President of France
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25 Sep 1920 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
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25 Sep 1920 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
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28 Sep 1920 Dirk Fock appointed as Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies
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28 Sep 1920 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
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29 Sep 1920 Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
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29 Sep 1920 Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
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30 Sep 1920 Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St, New York City
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01 Oct 1920 Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
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01 Oct 1920 Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as High Commissioner in Iraq.
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02 Oct 1920 Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)
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03 Oct 1920 Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season
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03 Oct 1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
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09 Oct 1920 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
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10 Oct 1920 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
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10 Oct 1920 Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
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10 Oct 1920 The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
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10 Oct 1920 Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
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10 Oct 1920 Indian's Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted world series triple play (World Series #17)
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10 Oct 1920 Indian's Elmer Smith hits the 1st world series grand slam (World Series #17)
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12 Oct 1920 Cleveland Indians beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series
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12 Oct 1920 Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City
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12 Oct 1920 Man O'War's last race & win
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13 Oct 1920 World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
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14 Oct 1920 Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
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17 Oct 1920 Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
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20 Oct 1920 "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in New York City
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23 Oct 1920 Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
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25 Oct 1920 After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
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27 Oct 1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
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27 Oct 1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
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29 Oct 1920 Ed Barrow appointed GM of New York Yankees
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29 Oct 1920 Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager
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30 Oct 1920 The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
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31 Oct 1920 Romania annexes Bessarabia
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01 Nov 1920 Warren Harding elected 29th President
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01 Nov 1920 American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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02 Nov 1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
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02 Nov 1920 Warren G Harding elected President
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02 Nov 1920 In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
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02 Nov 1920 Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress.
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03 Nov 1920 "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
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08 Nov 1920 Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
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08 Nov 1920 Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for November 12th
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12 Nov 1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
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13 Nov 1920 Hudson River frozen at Albany (1820?)
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14 Nov 1920 American Pro Football League's Chicago Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
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15 Nov 1920 Free City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection
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15 Nov 1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
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16 Nov 1920 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
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16 Nov 1920 Postage meter 1st used in US in lieu of postage stamps
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18 Nov 1920 Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St, New York City
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20 Nov 1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President W Wilson
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25 Nov 1920 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Philadelphia)
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25 Nov 1920 WTAW of College Station, TX, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
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28 Nov 1920 Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush – The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
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02 Dec 1920 Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
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03 Dec 1920 Turkey and Armenia agree to peace treaty
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04 Dec 1920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
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04 Dec 1920 8th CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3
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05 Dec 1920 Pro football playoff game Akron and Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
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05 Dec 1920 Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
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07 Dec 1920 New South Wales make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
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07 Dec 1920 USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
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10 Dec 1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
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11 Dec 1920 Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for an IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians also reported being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
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12 Dec 1920 Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse, " premieres in Paris
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13 Dec 1920 F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
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13 Dec 1920 League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague
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13 Dec 1920 Netherlands breaks contact with kingdoms of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
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14 Dec 1920 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in New York City
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14 Dec 1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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14 Dec 1920 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in New York NY
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16 Dec 1920 The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
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16 Dec 1920 Over 180,000 die when 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000
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17 Dec 1920 AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
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17 Dec 1920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
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17 Dec 1920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
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17 Dec 1920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
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17 Dec 1920 American League votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are inthe league (The National League will do the same - 17 holdover spitballers in all)
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18 Dec 1920 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
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19 Dec 1920 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Massachusetts)
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19 Dec 1920 King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
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20 Dec 1920 Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut vs England SCG
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20 Dec 1920 Bob Hope becomes an American citizen
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21 Dec 1920 Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally" premieres in New York NY
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22 Dec 1920 The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
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23 Dec 1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
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23 Dec 1920 King George V signs Home Rule Act
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24 Dec 1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York NY)
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29 Dec 1920 The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
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29 Dec 1920 Yugoslav government bans communist party
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31 Dec 1920 Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket inning, vs England at MCG
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