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1920 is 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 signs the Treaty of Sevres .
August 11 - Bolshevik Russia recognizes independent Estonia and Latvia .
August 13 - August 25 - Polish-Soviet War : The Red Army 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 a href="August_25.html" title="August 25">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 declares Fiume a free state.
September 16 - The Wall Street bombing : a bomb in a horse wagon 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 17 - Council of League of Nations accepts the constitution of Danzig(Gdansk ) free state .
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.
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 30 - Delbert Mann , American television and film director
February-March
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 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 3 - James Doohan , Canadian-born actor (d. 2005 )
March 3 - Ronald Searle , British cartoonist
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 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 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
June 2 - Tex Schramm , American football team president and general manager (d. 2003 )
June 12 - Dave Berg , American cartoonist (d. 2002 )
June 12 - Jim Siedow , American actor (d. 2003 )
June 16 - José López Portillo , President of Mexico (d. 2004 )
July 10 - David Brinkley , American television reporter (d. 2003 )
July 10 - Owen Chamberlain , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 17 - Juan Antonio Samaranch , Spanish International Olympic Committee president
July 21 - Isaac Stern , Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001 )
July 24 - Bella Abzug , American politician (d. 1998 )
July 25 - Rosalind Franklin , British crystallographer (d.1958 )
August-December
August 8 - Leo Chiosso , Italian poet
August 16 - Charles Bukowski , American writer (d. 1994 )
August 18 - Bob Kennedy , baseball player and manager (d. 2005 )
August 21 - Christopher Robin Milne , English author and bookseller (d. 1996 )
August 22 - Ray Bradbury , American writer
August 29 - Charlie Parker , American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 1955 )
September 10 - Fabio Taglioni , Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001 )
September 14 - Mario Benedetti , Uruguayan writer
September 14 - Lawrence Klein , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 22 - William H. Riker , American political scientist (d. 1993 )
September 29 - Peter D. Mitchell , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 1 - Charles Daudelin , Canadian sculptor (d. 2001 )
October 1 - Walter Matthau , American actor (d. 2000 )
October 6 - Pietro Consagra , Italian sculptor (d. 2005 )
October 8 - Frank Herbert , American author (d. 1986 )
October 9 - Jens Bjørneboe , Norwegian author (d. 1976 )
October 15 - Mario Puzo , American author (d. 1999 )
October 31 - Fritz Walter , German football player (d. 2002 )
November 5 - Douglass North , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 21 - Stan Musial , baseball player
November 23 - Paul Celan , Romanian-born poet (d. 1970 )
November 25 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail , King of Malaysia (d. 2000 )
November 25 - Ricardo Montalban , Mexican actor
November 25 - Noel Neill , American actress
November 27 - Abe Lenstra , Dutch football player (d. 1985 )
December 6 - Dave Brubeck , American jazz pianist and composer
December 6 - George Porter , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
December 9 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi , President of Italy
December 24 - Evgeniya Rudneva , Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
December 30 - Jack Lord , American actor (d. 1998 )
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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 )
June 5 - Rhoda Broughton , Welsh writer (b. 1840 )
June 5 - Julia A. Moore , American poet (b. 1847 )
June 6 - James Dunsmuir , Canadian politician (b. 1851 )
June 13 - Essad Pasha , Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1863 )
June 14 - Gabrielle Réjane , French actress (b. 1856 )
June 14 - Max Weber , German political economist (b. 1864 )
June 18 - Jewett W. Adams , Governor of Nevada (b. 1835 )
June 18 - John Macoun , Irish born naturalist (b. 1831 )
June 20 - Marie Adolphe Carnot , French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. 1839 )
June 20 - John Grigg , New Zealand astronomer (b. 1838 )
June 27 - Adolphe Basile Routhier , Canadian poet (b. 1839 )
July 1 - Delfim Moreira , President of Brazil (b. 1868 )
July 10 - John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher , British admiral (b. 1841 )
July 11 - Empress Eugénie of France (b. 1826 )
July 14 - Albert Keller , German painter (b. 1844 )
July 22 - William Kissam Vanderbilt , American heir (b. 1849 )
August 1 - Frank Hanly , Governor of Indiana (b. 1863 )
August 1 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak , Indian nationalist (b. 1856 )
August 2 - Ormer Locklear , American pilot (b. 1891 )
August 9 - Samuel Griffith , Australian politician and judge (b. 1845 )
August 10 - Adam Politzer , Austrian otologist (b. 1835 )
August 12 - Hermann Struve , Russian-born astronomer (b. 1854 )
August 16 - Henry Daglish , Premier of Australia (b. 1866 )
August 16 - Joseph Norman Lockyer , English astronomer (b. 1836 )
August 17 - Ray Chapman , baseball player (b. 1891 )
August 22 - Anders Zorn , Swedish painter (b. 1860 )
August 26 - James Wilson , Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835 )
August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt , German physiologist and psychologist (b. 1832 )
September 7 - Simon-Napoléon Parent , Premier of Quebec (b. 1855 )
September 10 - Olive Thomas , American actress (b. 1894 )
September 18 - Robert Beaven , Canadian politician (b. 1836 )
September 24 - Peter Carl Fabergé , Russian jeweler (b. 1846 )
September 25 - Jacob Schiff , German-born banker and philanthropist (b. 1847 )
September 30 - William Wilfred Sullivan , Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843 )
October 2 - Winthrop M. Crane , Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853 )
October 10 - Hudson Stuck , English mountaineer (b. 1865 )
October 19 - John Reed , American journalist (b. 1887 )
October 20 - Max Bruch , German composer (b. 1838 )
October 24 - Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853 )
November 4 - Ludwig Struve , Russian astronomer (b. 1858 )
November 13 - Luc-Olivier Merson , French painter and illustrator (b. 1846 )
November 23 - George Callaghan , British admiral (b. 1852 )
November 25 - Gaston Chevrolet , Swiss-born automobile race driver and manufacturer (b. 1892 )
November 30 - Eugene W. Chafin , American politician (b. 1852 )
December 3 - William de Wiveleslie Abney , English astronomer and photographer (b. 1843 )
December 11 - Olive Schreiner , South African writer (b. 1855 )
December 12 - Edward Gawler Prior , Canadian mining engineer and politician (b. 1854 )
December 14 - George Gipp , American football player (b. 1895 )
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