1920 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1920?
- January 1, 1920 – The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
- January 7, 1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 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.
- March 8, 1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
- May 5, 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
- May 7, 1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
- May 9, 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
- May 20, 1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
- July 29, 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
- August 11, 1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia’s authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
- September 17, 1920 – The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
- October 10, 1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
- October 30, 1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
- 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 28, 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush - The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
- December 5, 1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- December 16, 1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
- 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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