1920 Calendar
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1920 Historical Event(s)
- January 20, 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- February 20, 1920 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- May 3, 1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
- July 11, 1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
- July 15, 1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
- August 13, 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
- August 15, 1920 – Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula.
- August 26, 1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
- 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 5, 1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
Who Were Born On 1920?
- January 4, 1920 – William Colby, American intelligence officer and 10th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1996)
- January 6, 1920 – Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
- March 23, 1920 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
- May 10, 1920 – Bert Weedon, British guitarist
- May 13, 1920 – Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
- May 18, 1920 – Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
- September 14, 1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
- September 25, 1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
- October 12, 1920 – Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979)