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

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Jul 16th - China joins the League of Nations
Jul 16th - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
Jul 16th - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
Jul 20th - Heerenveen soccer team forms
Jul 23rd - British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony
Jul 25th - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
Jul 27th - Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
Jul 27th - Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
Jul 29th - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
Jul 29th - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
Jul 29th - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
Aug 1st - Papendrecht soccer team forms
Aug 1st - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
Aug 2nd - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
Aug 8th - Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
Aug 9th - Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
Aug 10th - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
Aug 10th - Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey)
Aug 10th - Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
Aug 11th - 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
Aug 13th - 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
Aug 14th - Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
Aug 14th - Olympic Games open in Antwerp
Aug 16th - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
Aug 17th - In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
Aug 18th - 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
Aug 18th - Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
Aug 20th - 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
Aug 20th - Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
Aug 20th - Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
Aug 20th - Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
Aug 20th - Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
Aug 21st - 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
Aug 23rd - M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
Aug 25th - 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
Aug 26th - 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
Aug 26th - Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins
Aug 28th - 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights
Aug 31st - Belgium starts paying old age pensions
Aug 31st - Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
Sep 1st - France creates Lebanon
Sep 1st - New townhall of Rotterdam opens
Sep 2nd - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
Sep 4th - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
Sep 5th - Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
Sep 6th - 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
Sep 6th - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
Sep 8th - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
Sep 12th - 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
Sep 16th - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
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