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1920 (''' MCMXX ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Thursday (link will take you to calendar)
Events
January
February
March
April-May
June-July
August-September
- August 2 - British parliament passes bill to restore order in Ireland , suspending jury trials.
- August 3 - Catholics riot in Belfast .
- August 10 - Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI 's representatives sign the Treaty Of Sevres .
- August 11 - Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia .
- is defeated in the Battle Of Warsaw .
- August 15 - Town Hall of Templemore , Ireland , is burned down during the riots.
- August 18 - 19th Amendment To US Constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's Suffrage .
- 19 August - 25 August - Second Silesian Uprising , the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
- August 20 - The first commercial Radio station in the United States, 8MK ( WWJ ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan .
- September 4 - ''La Tercio de Extranjenos'', the "Regiment of Foreigners" (modern-day Spanish Legion ) inaugurated in Spain
- September 5 - Presidential elections begin in Mexico
- September 8 - Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the Italian Regency Of Carnaro in the city of Fiume .
- explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City - 39 dead, 400 injured
- September 20 - The first soldier joins the Spanish Legion .
- September 22 - Flying Squad formed in London Metropolitan Police .
- September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in USA – Westinghouse radio costs $10.
- September 29 - Adolf Hitler 's makes first public political speech, in Austria .
October-November
- October 9 - Polish troops take Vilnius
- October 10 - In the Carinthian Plebiscite a large part of Carinthia Province votes to become part of Austria rather than of the Yugoslavia .
- October 12 - Polish-Soviet War After Polish army captures Tarnopol , Dubno , Minsk , and Dryssa , the ceasefire is enforced.
- October 18 - Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London ? 50 injured
- October 26 - Alvaro Obregon is announced elected President Of Mexico
- October 27 - League Of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneve , Switzerland
- November 2 - Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox in the U.S. Presidential Election , the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.
- November 2 - In the United States , KDKA AM of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (owned by Westinghouse ) starts broadcasting as a commercial Radio Station . The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. Presidential Election, 1920 .
- November 11 - Unknown Soldier buried in Westminster Abbey .
- November 15 - In Geneva , the first assembly of the League Of Nations is held.
- November 16 - Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services ( Qantas ) is founded by Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinniss .
- November 17 - The council of the League Of Nations accepts the Constitution for the Free City Of Danzig .
- November 21 - Bloody Sunday - British forces open fire on spectators and players during a Football match in Dublin 's Croke Park , following the assassinations of 12 British agents.
- November 28 - The Third Cork Brigade Flying Column under Gen. Tom Barry successfully ambush two lorries of British soldiers at Kilmichael, Co.Cork.
December
Undated
Births
January
- January 1 - Virgilio Savona , Italian singer and songwriter ( Quartetto Cetra )
- January 2 - Isaac Asimov , Russian-born author (d. 1992 )
- January 3 - Renato Carosone , Italian musician and singer (d. 2001 )
- January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Italian pianist (d. 1995 )
- January 6 - Sun Myung Moon , Korean evangelist
- January 6 - John Maynard Smith , English biologist (d. 2004 )
- January 6 - Early Wynn , baseball player (d. 1999 )
- January 12 - Bill Reid , Canadian artist (d. 1998 )
- January 19 - Javier Pérez De Cuéllar , Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
- January 20 - Federico Fellini , Italian film director (d. 1993 )
- January 20 - DeForest Kelley , American actor (d. 1999 )
- January 20 - John O'Connor , American Catholic cardinal
- January 23 - Gottfried Böhm , German architect
- January 27 - Helmut Zacharias , German violinist (d. 2002 )
- January 30 - Delbert Mann , American television and film director
February
- February 7 - An Wang , Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990 )
- February 11 - Farouk I , King Of Egypt (d. 1965 )
- February 11 - Billy Halop , American actor (d. 1976 )
- February 11 - Paul Peter Piech , American artist (d. 1996 )
- February 12 - William Roscoe Estep , American Baptist historian (d. 2000 )
- February 13 - Seneka Bibile , founder of Sri Lanka’s Drug Policy (d. 1977 )
- February 17 - Ivo Caprino , Norwegian film director (d. 2001 )
- February 18 - Bill Cullen , American game show host (d. 1990 )
- February 18 - Eddie Slovik , U.S. Army private (d. 1945 )
- February 26 - Tony Randall , American actor (d. 2004 )
- February 29 - Howard Nemerov , American poet (d. 1991 )
March
- March 3 - James Doohan , Canadian-born actor (d. 2005 )
- March 3 - Ronald Searle , British cartoonist
- March 4 - Alan MacNaughtan , Scottish actor (d. 2002 )
- March 10 - Boris Vian , French Writer , Poet , Singer and Musician (d. 1959 )
- March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 14 - Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (d. 2001 )
- March 15 - Lawrence Sanders , American novelist (d. 1998 )
- March 15 - E. Donnall Thomas , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- March 16 - Leo McKern , Australian actor (d. 2002 )
- March 17 - Mujibur Rahman , Prime Minister Of Bangladesh (d. 1975 )
- March 19 - Kjell Aukrust , Norwegian poet and artist (d. 2002 )
- March 20 - Pamela Harriman , English-born U.S. Ambassador to France (d. 1997 )
- March 22 Werner Klemperer , German actor (d. 2000 )
- March 25 - Patrick Troughton , British actor (d. 1987 )
- March 25 - Arthur Wint , Jamaican runner (d. 1992 )
April
- April 1 - Toshirô Mifune , Japanese actor (d. 1997 )
- April 2 - Jack Webb , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982 )
- April 5 - Arthur Hailey , American writer
- April 6 - Edmond H. Fischer , Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- April 7 - Ravi Shankar , Indian sitar player
- April 11 - Peter O'Donnell , British cartoonist and writer
- April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz , Hungarian-born psychiatrist and writer
- April 13 - Liam Cosgrave , President Of Ireland
- April 27 - Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor (d. 1956 )
- April 29 - Harold Shapero , American composer
May
- May 2 - Jean-Marie Auberson , Swiss conductor (d. 2004 )
- May 6 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara , first Prime Minister Of Fiji and President Of Fiji (d. 2004 )
- May 9 - Richard Adams , English author
- May 18 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005 )
- May 18 - Lucia Mannucci , Italian singer ( Quartetto Cetra )
- May 23 - Helen O'Connell , American singer (d. 1993 )
- May 26 - Peggy Lee , American singer (d. 2002 )
- May 28 - Gene Levitt , American television writer, producer, and director (d. 1999 )
- May 29 - John Harsanyi , Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000 )
- May 30 - Franklin Schaffner , American film and television director (d. 1989 )
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Date unknown
Deaths
- January 2 - Paul Adam , French writer (b. 1862 )
- January 3 - Zygmunt Janiszewski , Polish mathematician (b. 1888 )
- January 4 - Benito Pérez Galdós , Spanish novelist (b. 1843 )
- January 6 - Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen , Danish mathematician (b. 1839 )
- January 7 - Edmund Barton , Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849 )
- January 18 - Giovanni Capurro , Italian poet (b. 1825 )
- January 24 - William Percy French , Irish songwriter and entertainer (b. 1854 )
- January 24 - Amedeo Modigliani , Italian painter and sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884 )
- January 24 - William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket , British diplomat and administrator (b. 1864 )
- January 26 - Jeanne Hébuterne , French artist, model, and common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani (suicide) (b. 1898 )
- February 2 - Field E. Kindley , American World War I aviator (b. 1896 )
- February 3 - Frank Brown , Governor of Maryland (b. 1846 )
- February 6 - Augustus F. Goodridge , Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1839 )
- February 7 - Aleksandr Kolchak , Russian naval commander (b. 1874 )
- February 15 - Joseph Burton Sumner , founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. 1837 )
- February 20 - Joseph J. Fern , Mayor of Honolulu (b. 1872 )
- February 20 - Robert Peary , American Arctic explorer (b. 1856 )
- February 27 - William Sherman Jennings , Governor of Florida (b. 1863 )
- March 1 - John H. Bankhead , U.S. Senator from Alabama (b. 1842 )
- March 1 - William A. Stone , Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1846 )
- March 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor , Russian Zionist (b. 1880 )
- March 4 - Roswell P. Bishop , U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1843 )
- March 11 - Julio Garavito Armero , Colombian astronomer (b. 1865 )
- March 13 - Charles Lapworth , English geologist (b. 1842 )
- March 26 - William Chester Minor , American surgeon (b. 1834 )
- March 26 - Mary Augusta Ward , Tasmanian novelist (b. 1851 )
- March 31 - Paul Bachmann , German mathematician (b. 1837 )
- March 31 - Edwin Warfield , Governor of Maryland (b. 1848 )
- April 8 - John Brashear , American astronomer (b. 1840 )
- April 8 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes , American composer (b. 1884 )
- April 9 - Moritz Cantor , German historian of mathematics (b. 1829 )
- April 21 - Maria L. Sanford , American educator (b. 1836 )
- April 26 - Srinivasa Ramanujan , Indian mathematician (b. 1887 )
- May 1 - Princess Margaret Of Connaught , Crown Princess of Sweden (b. 1882 )
- May 9 - Agnes Macdonald , wife of John A. Macdonald , Prime Minister Of Canada (b. 1836
- May 11 - James Colosimo , Italian-born gangster (b. 1877 )
- May 11 - William Dean Howells , American writer (b. 1837 )
- May 16 - Levi P. Morton , Vice President Of The United States (b. 1824 )
- May 21 - Venustiano Carranza , President Of Mexico (b. 1859 )
- May 21 - Eleanor H. Porter , American novelist (b. 1868 )
- May 23 - Svetozar Borojevic , Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1856 )
- May 30 - George Ernest Morrison , Australian adventurer (b. 1862 )
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