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1920 Calendar

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•  January 19, 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
•  February 20, 1920 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  February 26, 1920 – The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premièred in Berlin.
•  April 25, 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class “A” League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
•  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 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 15, 1920 – Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula.
•  November 1, 1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.

•  January 20, 1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
•  February 10, 1920 – Neva Patterson, American actress (d. 2010)
•  February 13, 1920 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
•  February 19, 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988)
•  March 2, 1920 – Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt, German football manager
•  March 16, 1920 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
•  March 31, 1920 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English noble
•  April 15, 1920 – Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany
•  May 9, 1920 – Richard Adams, English author
•  October 17, 1920 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (d. 2010)