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 16, 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
- January 20, 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- January 23, 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
- February 1, 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
- 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 19, 1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
- 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.
- May 10, 1920 – Helen Crummy MBE, Scottish community activist (d. 2011).
- June 4, 1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
- 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 15, 1920 – Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula.
- August 20, 1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
- August 31, 1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
- October 10, 1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
- December 5, 1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
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