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1920 Calendar

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•  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.
•  May 10, 1920 – Helen Crummy MBE, Scottish community activist (d. 2011).
•  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 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 25, 1920 – After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
•  November 12, 1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
•  December 19, 1920 – King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.

•  January 9, 1920 – Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar (d. 1998)
•  February 7, 1920 – Oscar Brand, Canadian folk musicologist
•  February 13, 1920 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
•  May 15, 1920 – Nasrallah Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal
•  August 22, 1920 – Ray Bradbury, American writer
•  September 25, 1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
•  October 31, 1920 – Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (d. 2010)
•  December 10, 1920 – Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
•  December 19, 1920 – David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d. 1987)
•  December 30, 1920 – Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)