Today in History for Year 1920

Months in Year 1920: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 288

Jan 1st - The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
Jan 2nd - 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
Jan 3rd - Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres
Jan 3rd - NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
Jan 4th - 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
Jan 4th - Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
Jan 5th - Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees
Jan 5th - NY Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
Jan 10th - League of Nations established
Jan 10th - Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
Jan 10th - Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
Jan 11th - French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
Jan 12th - Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to
Jan 13th - NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
Jan 16th - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
Jan 16th - 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
Jan 16th - Georgia declares independence
Jan 17th - Paul Deschanel elected president of France
Jan 19th - Alexandre Millerand forms French government
Baseball Great Babe Ruth Jan 19th - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
Jan 20th - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
Jan 20th - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
Jan 23rd - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies
Jan 26th - Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
Jan 26th - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
Jan 29th - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
Jan 31st - 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication
Jan 31st - Joe Malone, Quebec Bulldogs, sets NHL record with 7 goals in a game
Jan 31st - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates
Feb 1st - 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
Feb 1st - Soccer team Quick Boys forms
Feb 1st - Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
Feb 2nd - Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
Feb 2nd - France occupies (German) Memel territory
Animator Walter Elias Disney Feb 2nd - Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence
Feb 4th - 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (lasts 1½ months)
Feb 6th - Saarland administrated by League of Nations
Feb 8th - Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
Feb 9th - International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
Feb 9th - Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs
Feb 10th - Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
Feb 10th - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
Feb 12th - -Apr 26] 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike
Feb 12th - NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
Feb 13th - National Negro Baseball League organizes
Feb 13th - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
Feb 13th - Switzerland rejoin League of Nations
Feb 14th - League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
Feb 19th - Netherlands joins League of Nations
Feb 21st - Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, premieres in Paris
Feb 22nd - 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville California)
Feb 24th - NSDAP begins at Hofbrauhaus Munich
Feb 24th - Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
Feb 28th - Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin," premieres
Mar 1st - Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy
Mar 1st - Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
Mar 2nd - Karel Capék's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague
Mar 3rd - Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
Mar 4th - Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
Mar 8th - Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
Mar 10th - NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
Mar 13th - Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
Mar 16th - 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
Mar 18th - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
Mar 19th - US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
Mar 20th - 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (took 1½ months)
Mar 20th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
Mar 20th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
Mar 23rd - Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
Mar 24th - 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
Mar 25th - Greek Independence Day
Mar 27th - Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
Mar 28th - Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia
Mar 28th - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
Mar 31st - British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
Apr 1st - Church disforms in Wales
Apr 1st - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2
Apr 4th - Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
Apr 6th - French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau
Apr 8th - LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
Apr 13th - 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
Apr 14th - Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
Apr 15th - New Canadian small cent coin is released
Apr 17th - American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)
Apr 19th - 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31
Apr 20th - 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
Apr 20th - Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
Apr 20th - Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
Apr 20th - Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
Apr 20th - Phillies mgr Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3- run homer beats NY Giants 3-0
Apr 21st - John Galsworthy's "Skin Game," premieres in London
Apr 23rd - Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
Apr 23rd - The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
Apr 24th - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
Apr 24th - Polish troops attack Ukraine
Apr 26th - H Shapley & H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
Apr 27th - Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
Apr 28th - Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
May 1st - Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
May 1st - Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 645

Jan 1st - Elisabeth Andersen, [Anna de Bruyn], Dutch actress (Yerma, Titania)
Jan 1st - Roger Peacock, writer
Jan 1st - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
Jan 2nd - Duke of Devonshire, English large landowner/art collector
Jan 2nd - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
Jan 2nd - Penelope Jessel, politcal activist
Jan 2nd - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker
Jan 3rd - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
Jan 4th - Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Fortunata y Jacinta)
Jan 4th - William Egan Colby, CIA director (Nixon)
Jan 5th - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Brescia Italy, pianist
Jan 5th - Mohammad Aslam Khokhar, cricket (Pak bat scored 16 & 18 in only test)
Jan 6th - Earl Kim, composer
Jan 6th - Early Wynn, Hartford Ala, baseball Hall of famer (pitcher)
Jan 6th - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies), (d. 2012)
Jan 6th - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
Jan 6th - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
Jan 7th - Albert Meltzer, anarchist
Jan 7th - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer
Jan 7th - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist
Jan 8th - Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter
Jan 9th - Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
Jan 9th - Clive Dunn, British actor, (d. 2012)
Jan 9th - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar
Jan 10th - Georges Marchal, Nancy France, actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way)
Jan 10th - Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
Jan 11th - John Powell, campaigner
Jan 12th - James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader
Jan 12th - Prof Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-born Australian sociologist
Jan 14th - Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux)
Jan 14th - Donald Beard, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in the 1950's)
Jan 14th - George Herman, newsman (CBS-TV)
Jan 15th - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY
Jan 15th - John Junor, British editor in chief (Sunday Express)
Jan 15th - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (d. 2002)
Jan 16th - Elliot Reid, NYC, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
Jan 17th - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician
Jan 17th - Nora Kaye, NYC, prima ballerina
Jan 19th - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
Jan 20th - DeForest Kelley, Atlanta GA, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek)
Jan 20th - Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar
Jan 20th - Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist
Jan 20th - Sam M Gibbons, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- )
Jan 20th - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
Jan 21st - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian
Jan 21st - Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76, 1986-87)
Jan 21st - Torsten Nilsson, composer
Jan 22nd - George Breakston, Paris France, actor/director (Jungle Stampede)
Jan 22nd - Piet Van Lishout, Flemish writer (Eva & I)
Jan 22nd - William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
Jan 23rd - Erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka)
Jan 24th - Don Saddler, Van Nuys California, dancer (Holiday Hotel)
Jan 24th - Jerry Maren, actor (munchkin-Wizard of Oz, Mayor McCheese)
Jan 26th - Derek Bond, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Nicholas Nickelby)
Jan 26th - John Logan Gorlay, journalist
Jan 27th - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
Jan 27th - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
Jan 28th - James Whyte, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
Jan 29th - Alec Coppen, psychiatrist
Jan 29th - José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
Jan 30th - George Skibine, Russ/US dancer/choreographer (Tragedy in Verona)
Jan 30th - Patrick Heron, abstract painter
Jan 30th - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
Jan 31st - Patrick Heron, painter
Jan 31st - Robert Hersant, press baron
Jan 31st - Stewart L Udall, St Johns Ariz, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69)
Feb 1st - Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman
Feb 2nd - An Wang, founder (Wang Labs, Wang Computers)
Feb 3rd - Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie)
Feb 3rd - Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver)
Feb 3rd - Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1955, 56)
Feb 3rd - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
Feb 3rd - George A. Miller, Charleston, West Virginia, cognitive psychologist (the magical number seven), (d. 2012)
Feb 4th - Derek Worlock, English RC archbishop (Liverpool)
Feb 4th - John Hartford Worlock, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool
Feb 5th - Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998)
Feb 6th - James H Scheuer, (Rep-D-NY, 1965-73, 75- )
Feb 7th - Eddie Bracken, Astoria NYC, actor (Summer Stock, Young & Willing)
Feb 7th - Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh)
Feb 8th - Buddy Blattner, baseball player
Actress Lana Turner (Feb 8th) Feb 8th - Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
Feb 10th - Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living)
Feb 10th - J Heslop-Harrison, botanist
Feb 11th - Billy Halop, NYC, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family)
Feb 11th - Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap)
Feb 11th - Farouk I, Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52)
Feb 11th - Paul Peter Piech, artist
Feb 12th - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000)
Feb 12th - Pran, Indian actor
Feb 13th - Bryant Boudleaux, Shellman Ga, rock writer (Bye Bye Love)
Feb 13th - Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, opera soprano (Interrupted Melody)
Feb 14th - Arnold Elton, consultant surgeon
Feb 15th - Ingmar Milveden, composer
Feb 15th - Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Devil Sails to US, Niggers)
Feb 15th - Richard O'Brien, CEO (Manpower Services Commission)
Feb 15th - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1997)
Feb 16th - Hubert van Herreweghen, Flemish writer/journalist
Feb 16th - Lee Russell, Cleveland Oh, vocalist (Vincent Lopez)
Feb 16th - Patty Andrews, Minneapolis MN, vocalist (Andrews Sisters)
Feb 16th - Anna Mae Hays, American army general

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Feb 10th - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
Mar 28th - Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
Apr 3rd - Novelist and short story writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (23) weds novelist Zelda Sayre (19) at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 95 of 95

Jan 1st - Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57
Jan 4th - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
Jan 7th - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
Jan 14th - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
Jan 16th - Reginald De Koven, composer, dies at 60
Jan 20th - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
Jan 25th - Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35
Jan 26th - Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
Feb 7th - Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
Feb 7th - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
Feb 8th - Richard Dehmel, writer, dies at 56
Feb 12th - Emile Sauret, composer, dies at 67
Feb 12th - Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77
Feb 12th - Ottalee Baker, Frank "Home Run" Baker's wife, dies at 31
Feb 20th - Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63
Feb 21st - Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
Feb 23rd - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer, dies at 61
Feb 25th - Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73
Feb 26th - Ludwig Rubiner, writer, dies at 38
Feb 27th - Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72
Mar 1st - Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
Mar 1st - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
Mar 3rd - Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
Mar 8th - Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69
Mar 11th - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
Mar 20th - Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60
Mar 21st - Federigo Tozzi, Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37
Mar 26th - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
Mar 27th - Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26
Apr 3rd - Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74
Apr 7th - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
Apr 8th - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, US composer (White Peacock), dies at 35
Apr 10th - Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90
Apr 10th - Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53
Apr 15th - Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74
Apr 16th - John Conrad Nordqvist, composer, dies at 80
Apr 26th - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
Apr 29th - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
May 10th - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
May 11th - William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83
May 16th - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
May 17th - Maitland Hathorn, cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests S Afr 1901-11), dies
May 23rd - Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
Jun 5th - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
Jun 13th - Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer
Jun 14th - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
Jun 15th - Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55
Jun 30th - Lena Christ, writer, dies at 38
Jul 2nd - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
Jul 5th - John Shuter, cricketer (scored 28 in only Test for England 1888), dies
Jul 5th - Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63
Jul 10th - Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperor of France, dies at 94
Jul 10th - John A "Jacky" Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79
Jul 10th - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
Jul 22nd - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
Jul 23rd - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
Jul 26th - Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83
Aug 1st - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies
Aug 2nd - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
Aug 4th - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54
Aug 6th - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
Aug 10th - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
Aug 16th - J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies
Aug 17th - Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
Aug 17th - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
Aug 22nd - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60
Aug 31st - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher, dies
Sep 5th - Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
Sep 7th - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
Sep 16th - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32
Sep 25th - William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77
Oct 2nd - Max Bruch, composer, dies at 82
Oct 6th - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
Oct 13th - Isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist, dies at 86
Oct 16th - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
Oct 20th - Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82
Oct 25th - Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27
Oct 29th - Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74
Oct 31st - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
Nov 2nd - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73
Nov 8th - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
Nov 8th - Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
Nov 21st - Caryl Florio, composer, dies at 77
Nov 21st - William James Robjohn, composer, dies at 77
Nov 22nd - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
Nov 23rd - Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies
Nov 25th - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
Dec 6th - Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57
Dec 10th - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
Dec 12th - Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
Dec 12th - Paul Lacome, composer, dies at 82
Dec 14th - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
Dec 16th - Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies
Dec 21st - Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death
Dec 31st - Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 43