1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) 1920 - Events. January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full. January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor wh ...

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1920 - January. January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full. January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit January 10 - League of Nations holds ...

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Professional boxing in the 1920s was basically a sport that was practiced only in the United States, although several world champions went abroad for exhibition fights. Many fights during this era, some 20 years away or so from the television era, were social events with many thousands in attendance, both men and women. World Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was one of the most important fighters of this era. He won the title in 1919, keeping it until 1926. He lost the title to Gene Tunney in 1926, but many of his fights were ...

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See also: 1919 in sports, other events of 1920, 1921 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. 1920 in sports - Baseball Major League. January 3 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan, beginning the "Curse of the Bambino". This was the prelude to an extraordinary Major League season during which the Bambino would hit 54 home runs, Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman would be killed by a pitch from Carl Mays, and Eddie Cicotte and Sho ...

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The USGA founds its famed Green Section to conduct research on turfgrass. The first practice range is opened in Pinehurst, North Carolina. "The Professional Golfer of America" is first published which, today known as "PGA Magazine", is the oldest continually-published golf magazine in the United States. 1921 The R & A limits the size and weight of the ball. 1922 Walter Hagen becomes the first native American to win the British Open. He subsequently becomes the first professional ...

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The Astra was an American automobile manufactured in 1920. The car was built by a subsidiary concern of Dorris, and was shown that year in its native St. Louis. It featured a 108-inch wheelbase, a Leroi four-cylinder engine, and a slightly pointed radiator. Some five or ten units were built before the company failed in June of 1920. Other related archives1920, American, Dorris, St. Louis, automobile, four-cylinder, wheelbase

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The U.S. presidential election of 1920 was dominated by the aftermath of World War I. The wartime boom had collapsed. Diplomats and politicians were arguing over peace treaties and the question of America's entry into the League of Nations. Overseas there were wars and revolutions; at home there were strikes, riots, and a growing fear of radicals and terrorists. Disillusionment was in the air. The giants who had dominated the political scene for a generation were gone -- Theodore Roosevelt, who had intended to run for president ...

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The Province of Wales in the Anglican Communion was created in 1920, as the Church in Wales, independent from the Church of England (of which the four Welsh dioceses had previously been part). Unlike the Archbishops of Canterbury and York -- who are appointed by the Queen upon the advice of the Prime Minister -- the Archbishop of Wales is one of the six diocesan bishops of Wales, chosen by his colleagues to h ...

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Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one thing while ignoring other things. Examples include listening carefully to what someone is saying while ignoring other conversations in the room (e.g. the cocktail party problem, Cherry, 1953). Attention can also be split, as when a person drives a car, puts on makeup, and talks on a cell phone at the same time. (Never really try this, however.) Attention is one of the most intensely studied topics within psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Of the many co ...

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The Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) was the U.S. Navy's material-support organization for Naval Aviation from 1921 to 1959. The bureau had "cognizance" (i.e., responsibility) for the design, procurement, and support of Naval aircraft and related systems. Aerial weapons, however, were under the cognizance of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd). Bureau of Aeronautics - Origins: 1920s and 1930s. Congress established BuAer in 1921 in order to create a single organizational home for Naval Aviation. Prior to 1921 ...

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Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s,especially in the United States. This due to the fact both decades were considered very economically prosperous times, and a prosperity which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event at the closing of the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the late 1910s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s). In the United States, this decad ...

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Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s, especially in the United States. This due to the fact both decades were considered very economically prosperous times, and a prosperity which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event at the closing of the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the late 1910s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s). In Australia, this decad ...

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U.S. presidential election 1920 - Republican Party nomination. On June 8, 1920, the Republican National Convention meeting in Chicago nominated Warren G. Harding, an Ohio newspaper editor and United States Senator, to run for president with Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts, as his running mate. Harding was a compromise candidate after the convention deadlocked between General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Harding campaigned as advocating, in his own phrase, "A Return to Normalcy" ("normalcy" was a corruption of "normality" and later became part of ...

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February February 1 - the South African Air Force is established as an independent air arm. February 4 - Pierre van Ryneveld and Quentin Brand set out in a Vickers Vimy from Cairo to cross Africa by air from North to South. They will arrive in Cape Town on March 20. February 5 - the Royal Air Force College is established at Cranwell, Lincolnshire. March March 29 - Croydon replaces Hounslow as London's airport. April April 17 - the Venezuelan air force is for ...

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Battle of Warsaw 1920 - Prelude to the battle. The Poles were fighting to preserve their newly regained independence, lost in the 1795 Third Partition of Poland, and to carve out the borders of a new multinational federation (Międzymorze) from the territories of their former partitioners, Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary. The Bolsheviks had in 1919 gained the upper hand in the Russian Civil War, dealing crippling blows to the White Russians. Vladimir Lenin viewed Poland as a bridge that had to be crosse ...

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1920 in rail transport - March events. March 1 - Control of American railroads is returned to private ownership and administration with the disbandment of the USRA. March 18 - Fruit Growers Express (FGE) is incorporated. 1920 in rail transport - June events. June 13 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates passenger service to Detroit's Fort Street Union Depot as the first passenger train departs for Washington, DC.^{See also:}

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These Olympics were the first in which the Olympic Oath was uttered, the first in which doves were released to symbolize peace, and was the first time the Olympic Flag was flown. The USA won 41 Gold, 27 Silver, and 27 Bronze medals, the most won by any of the 29 nations attending. Sweden, Great Britain, Finland and Belgium round out the top 5 medal winning nations. The Games also featured a week of winter sports, with fig ...

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Each team plays one match against each of the other teams. Two (2) points are awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw and zero (0) points for a defeat. Half-time scores are in brackets September 11, 1920 September 12, 1920 September 18, 1920 September 20, 1920 September 25, 1920 October 3, 1920 ...

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South American Championship 1920, South American Championship 1920 - Matches, South American Championship 1920 - Standings, South American Championship 1920 - Goal Scorers

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1920 in rail transport - April births. April 17 - James B. McCahey, Jr., president of Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (d. 1998).[3] ...

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