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

Historical Events

Results 201 - 294 of 294

Sep 17th - Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) & 5th (2) innings
Sep 17th - National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Assn
Sep 20th - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
Sep 22nd - Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
Sep 23rd - Alexander Millerand elected president of France
Sep 25th - 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
Sep 25th - Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
Sep 28th - 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
Sep 28th - Dirk Fock appointed as gov-gen of Neth Indies
Sep 29th - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
Sep 29th - Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy
Sep 29th - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
Sep 30th - Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC
Oct 1st - Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
Oct 1st - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
Oct 2nd - Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)
Oct 3rd - Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season
Oct 3rd - NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
Oct 6th - 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln
Oct 9th - 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
Oct 10th - 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
Oct 10th - Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
Oct 10th - Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
Oct 10th - Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
Oct 10th - Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
Oct 10th - Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam
Oct 12th - Cleve Indians beat Bkln Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series
Oct 12th - Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
Oct 12th - Man O'War's last race & win
Oct 12th - Soccer team Quick '20 forms
Oct 13th - World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
Oct 14th - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
Oct 17th - Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
Oct 20th - "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in NYC
Oct 23rd - Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
Oct 27th - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
Oct 27th - Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
Oct 29th - Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees
Oct 30th - The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
Oct 31st - Romania annexes Bessarabia
Nov 1st - Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in NYC
Nov 1st - Warren Harding elected 29th president
Nov 1st - American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
Nov 2nd - KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
Nov 2nd - Warren G Harding elected president
Nov 3rd - "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
Nov 8th - Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
Nov 8th - Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
Nov 10th - George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
Nov 12th - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
Nov 13th - Hudson River frozen at Albany
Nov 14th - American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
Nov 15th - Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg
Nov 15th - Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
Nov 15th - League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
Nov 16th - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
Nov 18th - Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
Nov 20th - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
Nov 21st - Karel Capék's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague
Nov 21st - Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy
Nov 25th - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
Nov 25th - WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
Nov 28th - Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
Dec 3rd - Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
Dec 4th - 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
Dec 4th - 8th CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3
Dec 5th - Pro football playoff game Akron & Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
Dec 5th - Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
Dec 7th - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
Dec 7th - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
Dec 12th - Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse," premieres in Paris
Dec 13th - F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
Dec 13th - League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
Dec 13th - Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
Dec 14th - Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in NYC
Dec 14th - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
Dec 16th - 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 square miles and kills over 180,000 in Kansu China
Dec 16th - The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
Dec 17th - AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
Dec 17th - British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
Dec 17th - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
Dec 17th - South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
Dec 18th - 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
Dec 19th - 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
Dec 19th - King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
Dec 20th - Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
Dec 20th - Bob Hope became an American citizen
Dec 21st - Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC
Dec 23rd - Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
Dec 23rd - King George V signs Home Rule Act
Dec 24th - Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
Dec 29th - The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
Dec 29th - Yugoslav govt bans communist party
Dec 31st - Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket inn, v Eng at MCG

Famous Birthdays

Results 201 - 300 of 640

Mar 26th - George E Brown Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
Mar 27th - Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
Mar 27th - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
Mar 28th - Dirk Bogarde, London England, actor (Death in Venice, Servant)
Mar 28th - Gene Chappie, (Rep-R-CA, 1981-86)
Mar 28th - Lord Butterfield
Mar 29th - John Belk, American head of Belk, Inc. (d. 2007)
Mar 30th - Turhan Bey, Vienna Austria, actor (Dragon Seed, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
Mar 31st - Marga [Sara Voeten-] Minco, Dutch writer (Bitter Herb)
Mar 31st - Deborah_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire, English Duchess, now Dowager Duchess
Apr 1st - Joan Frances Will, actress
Apr 1st - Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
Apr 2nd - Jack Webb, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet)
Apr 3rd - Stan Freeman, Waterbury Conn, pianist (Melody Tour)
Apr 3rd - John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi
Apr 4th - Eric Rohmer, Nancy France, actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval)
Apr 5th - Arthur Hailey, Luton England, novelist (Hotel, Airport)
Apr 5th - Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch premier (1971-73)
Apr 5th - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
Apr 6th - Bernard Carter, British painter/etcher
Apr 7th - Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)
Apr 7th - Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer
Apr 8th - Carmen McRae (Clark), US jazz singer/pianist (Dream of Life)
Apr 8th - Erik Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
Apr 9th - Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle)
Apr 9th - Art Van Damme, Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
Apr 9th - David Walker, Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
Apr 9th - F Don Miller, Racine Wisc, Boxing coach (Olympic-1956)
Apr 11th - Marlen Haushofer, writer
Apr 12th - H R Hewitt, CEO (Johnson Matthey)
Apr 12th - Robert Fizdale, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Misia)
Apr 13th - Liam Cosgrave, leader (Fine Gael Party)
Apr 13th - Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
Apr 13th - Claude Cheysson, French politician
Apr 13th - John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)
Apr 14th - Eduardo Maturana, composer
Apr 14th - John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
Apr 15th - Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94)
Apr 16th - Barry Nelson, Oakland, actor (Airport, My Favorite Husband)
Apr 16th - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor
Apr 16th - John William Farr, Detroit, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
Apr 16th - Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo)
Apr 17th - Bengt N Anderberg, Swedish poet/writer (Kain)
Apr 17th - Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter
Apr 18th - Walter Clegg, MP
Apr 19th - Frank Fontaine, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Crazy Guggenheim)
Apr 20th - John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- )
Apr 20th - Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
Apr 21st - Bruno Maderna, Venice Italy, conductor/composer, Hyperion) [or Mar 21]
Apr 21st - Christopher Dark, NY, actor, Suddenly, Tenderfoot)
Apr 21st - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
Apr 22nd - Hal March, SF Calif, actor/TV host ($64,000 Question, Outrage)
Apr 22nd - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Misery of the Word)
Apr 23rd - Eric Yarrow, CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
Apr 23rd - Louis Barron, composer
Apr 25th - Jean Carmet, actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic)
Apr 25th - Marre, reformer of the bar
Apr 26th - Juan C Lampe, Aruba, pianist/composer
Apr 27th - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
Apr 27th - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet
Apr 27th - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
Apr 28th - Nan Merriman, US/Neth singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orch)
Apr 29th - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster
Apr 29th - Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera)
Apr 30th - Duncan Hamilton, driver
Apr 30th - Leen 't Hart, Dutch organist/composer
May 2nd - Jacob Gilboa, composer
May 2nd - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
May 2nd - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
May 3rd - Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ)
May 5th - John Hidalgo Moya, architect/designer (Skylon)
May 6th - John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
May 8th - Maurice Cranston, political scientist
May 8th - Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal
May 8th - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991)
May 9th - Richard Adams, author (Day Gone By)
May 9th - William Tenn, American author
May 10th - Basil Kelly, Lord Justice of Appeals (Northern Ireland)
May 11th - Beryl Bryden, jazz singer
May 11th - Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Tammy, Doris Day)
May 13th - Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM of Fiji (1960-70, 70- )/pres (1994- )
May 13th - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
May 15th - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet
May 16th - Martine Carol, [Maryse Mopurer], Saint-Mande France, actress (Nana)
May 17th - Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
May 17th - Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
May 18th - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
May 20th - Betty Driver, actress (Penny Paradise)
May 20th - John Cruickshank, banker
May 20th - William Simpson, British trade union leader
May 21st - Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
May 22nd - Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic
May 22nd - Thomas Gold, astronomer (proposed steady-state theory of universe)
May 22nd - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
May 23rd - Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
May 23rd - Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
May 26th - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (South African batsman, Test capt early 50's)
May 26th - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
May 27th - Michael Webster, CEO (DRG)
May 27th - William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent

Famous Deaths

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