Today in History for September 1920
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 23 of 23
1st - France creates Lebanon
1st - New townhall of Rotterdam opens
2nd - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
4th - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
5th - Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
6th - 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
6th - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
8th - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
12th - 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
16th - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
17th - Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) & 5th (2) innings
17th - National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Assn
20th - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
22nd - Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
23rd - Alexander Millerand elected president of France
25th - 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
25th - Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
28th - 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
28th - Dirk Fock appointed as gov-gen of Neth Indies
29th - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
29th - Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy
29th - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
30th - Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 47 of 47
1st - Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller)
1st - Richard Farnsworth, LA Calif, actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester)
4th - Craig Claiborne, food columnist (NY Times Cookbook)
4th - Teddy Johnson, British singer
4th - Clemar Bucci, Argentine racing driver
5th - Fons Rademakers, director (Assault)/actor (Daughter of Darkness)
5th - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author (Anna & her Father)
5th - Peter Racine Fricker, British composer
7th - Harri Webb, poet
7th - Al Caiola, American guitarist
9th - Michael Aldridge, Glastonbury England, actor (Murder in Cathedral)
9th - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
9th - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
10th - Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor/director (Assault)
10th - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
12th - Irene Dailey, NYC, actress (Liz-Another World, Grissom Gang)
12th - Jan W Schulte Nordholt, Dutch poet/historian (Blossoming Stone)
13th - Carole Mathews, Montgomery Ill, actress (Wilma-Californians)
14th - Bud Palmer, Hollywood Calif, NBAer (NY Knicks)/sportscaster
14th - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
16th - Franco Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
16th - Hannie [Jannetje J] Schaft, "Girl with red hair"
16th - Sheila Quinn, adviser (British Red Cross)
17th - Dinah Sheridan, actress (Genevieve, Railway Children)
17th - Marjorie S Holt, (Rep-R-MD, 1973- )
18th - Jack Warden, Newark NJ, actor (NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby)
19th - Karen Khachiturian, composer
20th - Alexander Thereat
21st - Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky & his Friends, Bullwinkle)
22nd - Bob Lemon, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)/manager (NY Yankees, 1978)
22nd - Ismay Thomas, teacher
22nd - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
22nd - Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
23rd - Alexander Arutiunian, composer
23rd - Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon
23rd - Jiri Jaroch, composer
23rd - Mickey Rooney, American actor
25th - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
27th - J K Gill, president (Saatchi & Saatchi)
27th - William Conrad, Louisville Ky, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Cannon)
27th - Jayne Meadows, American actress
29th - Sergei F Bondarchuk, director/actor (Boris Godunov, Step, Otello)
29th - Vaclav Neummann, conductor
29th - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate
30th - Donald Keech, entrepreneur
30th - Ghazar Saryan, composer
30th - Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 4 of 4
5th - Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
7th - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
16th - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32
25th - William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77
