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

Historical Events

Results 1 - 20 of 20

1st - Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1st - Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
1st - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
2nd - 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
5th - German-Latvian peace treaty signed
5th - Polish troops occupy Kiev
5th - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
7th - USSR recognizes Georgia's independence
8th - 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09
14th - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
14th - Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
15th - Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
16th - Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint
16th - Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
17th - 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
17th - 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
18th - 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
20th - Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers & arrest 24 fans for gambling
23rd - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
27th - Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 37 of 37

2nd - Jacob Gilboa, composer
2nd - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
2nd - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
3rd - Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ)
5th - John Hidalgo Moya, architect/designer (Skylon)
6th - John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
8th - Maurice Cranston, political scientist
8th - Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal
8th - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991)
9th - Richard Adams, author (Day Gone By)
9th - William Tenn, American author
10th - Basil Kelly, Lord Justice of Appeals (Northern Ireland)
11th - Beryl Bryden, jazz singer
11th - Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Tammy, Doris Day)
13th - Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM of Fiji (1960-70, 70- )/pres (1994- )
13th - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
15th - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet
16th - Martine Carol, [Maryse Mopurer], Saint-Mande France, actress (Nana)
17th - Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
17th - Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
18th - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
20th - Betty Driver, actress (Penny Paradise)
20th - John Cruickshank, banker
20th - William Simpson, British trade union leader
21st - Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
22nd - Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic
22nd - Thomas Gold, astronomer (proposed steady-state theory of universe)
22nd - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
23rd - Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
23rd - Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
26th - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (South African batsman, Test capt early 50's)
26th - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
27th - Michael Webster, CEO (DRG)
27th - William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent
29th - Robin Haydon, British diplomat
30th - John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
31st - Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 5 of 5

10th - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
11th - William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83
16th - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
17th - Maitland Hathorn, cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests S Afr 1901-11), dies
23rd - Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)