1920 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1920?
- January 1, 1920 – The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
- 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.
- February 10, 1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
- 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.
- March 13, 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 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.
- 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.
- July 12, 1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognises independent Lithuania.
- July 29, 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
- August 16, 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
- August 20, 1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
- August 31, 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
- 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.
- October 10, 1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
- November 21, 1920 – Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as “Bloody Sunday”. This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.
- December 5, 1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- December 22, 1920 – The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
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