1920 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1920?
- January 16, 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
- 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 24, 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
- April 15, 1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
- April 23, 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara.
- April 30, 1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- May 7, 1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
- June 15, 1920 – Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- July 11, 1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
- July 12, 1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognises independent Lithuania.
- July 25, 1920 – France captures Damascus.
- August 18, 1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women’s suffrage.
- September 16, 1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured.
- September 17, 1920 – The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
- October 14, 1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
- October 25, 1920 – After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
- October 30, 1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
- December 5, 1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
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