Today in History for December 1920
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 31 of 31
3rd - Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
4th - 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
4th - 8th CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3
5th - Pro football playoff game Akron & Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
5th - Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
7th - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
7th - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
12th - Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse," premieres in Paris
13th - F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
13th - League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
13th - Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
14th - Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in NYC
14th - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
16th - 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 square miles and kills over 180,000 in Kansu China
16th - The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
17th - AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
17th - British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
17th - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
17th - South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
18th - 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
19th - 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
19th - King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
20th - Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
20th - Bob Hope became an American citizen
21st - Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC
23rd - Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
23rd - King George V signs Home Rule Act
24th - Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
29th - The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
29th - Yugoslav govt bans communist party
31st - Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket inn, v Eng at MCG
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 43 of 43
2nd - Robert Moevs, composer
4th - Michael Bates, Jhansi India, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton)
6th - Dave Brubeck, Concord CA, jazz pianist/composer (Gates of Justice)
6th - George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
7th - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist
7th - Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002)
8th - Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
8th - Ron Gulliford, educationalist
9th - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
10th - Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
10th - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
11th - Eddy Firestone, SF Calif, actor (Eddy-Mixed Doubles)
12th - Fred Kida, American comics artist
13th - Don Taylor, Freeport Pa, actor (Father's Little Dividend)
13th - Frits Noske, Dutch musicologist (Signifier & the Signified
13th - George P Schultz, US Secretary of State (1982-89)
13th - Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos (Pathet Lao) (1991-92)
14th - Albertus Meintser, office clerk/resistance fighter
14th - Quinton Hazell, businessman
14th - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
15th - Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (d. 2002)
17th - Armin Mueller-Stahl, Tilsit East Prussia, actor (Kafka, Music Box)
17th - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
18th - Rita Streich, German singer
18th - Willis Conover, broadcaster
19th - David Susskind, NYC, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show)
19th - Ragnild Hveger, Denmark, 400m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936) [NS]
19th - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer
21st - Bob Bindig, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
21st - Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
24th - Dave Bartholomew, La, jazz artist/songwriter (Blueberry Hill)
24th - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
25th - Artur Agostinho, Lisbon Port, actor (Capas Negras, Leao da Estrela)
25th - Henry Charnock, oceanographer
26th - Gote Carlid, composer
27th - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (d. 2005)
28th - Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Philadelphia Eagles)
29th - Syd Dernley, hangman
29th - Viveca Lindfors, Uppsala Sweden, actress (Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
30th - Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist
30th - Michael Allinson, London England (George Washington)
30th - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
31st - Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (d. 1999)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
6th - Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57
10th - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
12th - Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
12th - Paul Lacome, composer, dies at 82
14th - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
16th - Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies
21st - Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death
31st - Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 43
