1920 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1920?
- January 8, 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
- February 1, 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
- February 13, 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
- February 14, 1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- February 20, 1920 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- February 26, 1920 – The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premièred in Berlin.
- March 8, 1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
- May 2, 1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- May 5, 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
- May 7, 1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
- July 11, 1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
- July 15, 1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
- July 25, 1920 – Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- August 10, 1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI’s representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
- August 18, 1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women’s suffrage.
- August 25, 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
- August 31, 1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
- November 2, 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
- November 7, 1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
- November 12, 1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
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