Today in History for January 1920
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Months in 1920: February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 30 of 30
1st - The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
2nd - 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
3rd - Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres
3rd - NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
4th - 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
4th - Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
5th - Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees
5th - NY Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
10th - League of Nations established
10th - Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
10th - Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
11th - French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
12th - Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to
13th - NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
16th - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
16th - 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
16th - Georgia declares independence
17th - Paul Deschanel elected president of France
19th - Alexandre Millerand forms French govt
19th - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
20th - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
20th - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
23rd - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies
26th - Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
26th - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
29th - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
30th - Quebec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game
31st - 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication
31st - Joe Malone, Quebec Bulldogs, sets NHL record with 7 goals in a game
31st - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 66 of 66
1st - Elisabeth Andersen, [Anna de Bruyn], Dutch actress (Yerma, Titania)
1st - Roger Peacock, writer
1st - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
2nd - Duke of Devonshire, English large landowner/art collector
2nd - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
2nd - Penelope Jessel, politcal activist
2nd - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker
3rd - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
4th - Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Fortunata y Jacinta)
4th - William Egan Colby, CIA director (Nixon)
5th - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Brescia Italy, pianist
5th - Mohammad Aslam Khokhar, cricket (Pak bat scored 16 & 18 in only test)
6th - Earl Kim, composer
6th - Early Wynn, Hartford Ala, baseball Hall of famer (pitcher)
6th - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies)
6th - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
6th - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
7th - Albert Meltzer, anarchist
7th - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer
7th - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist
8th - Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter
9th - Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
9th - Clive Dunn, British actor
9th - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar
10th - Georges Marchal, Nancy France, actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way)
10th - Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
11th - John Powell, campaigner
12th - James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader
12th - Prof Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-born Australian sociologist
14th - Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux)
14th - Donald Beard, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in the 1950's)
14th - George Herman, newsman (CBS-TV)
15th - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY
15th - John Junor, British editor in chief (Sunday Express)
15th - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (d. 2002)
16th - Elliot Reid, NYC, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
17th - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician
17th - Nora Kaye, NYC, prima ballerina
19th - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
20th - DeForest Kelley, Atlanta GA, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek)
20th - Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar
20th - Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist
20th - Sam M Gibbons, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- )
20th - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
21st - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian
21st - Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76, 1986-87)
21st - Torsten Nilsson, composer
22nd - George Breakston, Paris France, actor/director (Jungle Stampede)
22nd - Piet Van Lishout, Flemish writer (Eva & I)
22nd - William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
23rd - Erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka)
24th - Don Saddler, Van Nuys Calif, dancer (Holiday Hotel)
24th - Jerry Maren, actor (munchkin-Wizard of Oz, Mayor McCheese)
26th - Derek Bond, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Nicholas Nickelby)
26th - John Logan Gorlay, journalist
27th - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
27th - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
28th - James Whyte, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
29th - Alec Coppen, psychiatrist
29th - José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
30th - George Skibine, Russ/US dancer/choreographer (Tragedy in Verona)
30th - Patrick Heron, abstract painter
30th - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
31st - Patrick Heron, painter
31st - Robert Hersant, press baron
31st - Stewart L Udall, St Johns Ariz, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
1st - Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57
4th - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
7th - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
14th - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
16th - Reginald De Koven, composer, dies at 60
20th - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
25th - Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35
26th - Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
