1920 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1920?
- January 2, 1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
- January 7, 1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- January 20, 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- January 26, 1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
- February 2, 1920 – France occupies Memel.
- February 13, 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
- February 20, 1920 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- March 22, 1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
- 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 30, 1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 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 25, 1920 – Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- July 29, 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
- 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 31, 1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
- September 7, 1920 – Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en-route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.
- September 20, 1920 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
- 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.
- December 19, 1920 – King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
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