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1920 Calendar

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•  January 8, 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
•  February 2, 1920 – France occupies Memel.
•  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.
•  June 15, 1920 – Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
•  August 20, 1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
•  August 25, 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
•  October 14, 1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
•  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 2, 1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.

•  February 15, 1920 – Endicott Peabody, American politician and 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1997)
•  February 25, 1920 – Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
•  March 31, 1920 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English noble
•  July 11, 1920 – James von Brunn, perpetrator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting (d. 2010)
•  July 25, 1920 – Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
•  August 3, 1920 – P. D. James, English novelist
•  September 17, 1920 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress
•  October 31, 1920 – Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (d. 2010)
•  November 21, 1920 – Stan Musial, American baseball player
•  November 23, 1920 – Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)