Historical Events for November 1920

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1st - Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in NYC
1st - Warren Harding elected 29th president
1st - American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
2nd - KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
2nd - Warren G Harding elected president
3rd - "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
8th - Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
8th - Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
10th - George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
12th - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
13th - Hudson River frozen at Albany
14th - American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
15th - Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg
15th - Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
15th - League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
16th - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
18th - Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
20th - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
21st - Karel Capék's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague
21st - Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy
25th - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
25th - WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
28th - Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.


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