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1920 - January.
January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra)
January 2 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
January 6 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
January 6 - Early Wynn, baseball player (d. 1999)
January ...
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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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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - 1920s Entering the New York Navy Yard for upkeep soon thereafter. the battleship cleared that port on January 6, 1920, to join Battleship Division 7 for winter and spring maneuvers in the Caribbean. She operated out of Guantanamo Bay during this period, and also visited Bridgetown, Barbados, in the British West Indies, and Colón, Panama in the Canal Zone, before she sailed north for New York arriving there on May 1. Departing New York on May 17, Arizona operated on the Southern Drill Grounds, and then visited Norfolk and Annapol ...
See also:USS Arizona BB-39, USS Arizona BB-39 - Construction, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1910s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1920s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1930s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1940s, USS Arizona BB-39 - December 7 1941, USS Arizona BB-39 - Memorial, USS Arizona BB-39 - External link Read more here: » USS Arizona BB-39: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - 1920s |
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - 1910s Arizona departed New York on November 16 for shakedown training off the Virginia Capes and Newport, proceeding thence to Guantanamo Bay. Returning north to Norfolk on December 16 to test fire her battery and to conduct torpedo-defense exercises in Tangier Sound. The battleship returned to her builder's yard the day before Christmas of 1916 for post-shakedown overhaul. Completing these repairs and alterations on April 3, 1917, she cleared the yard on that date for Norfolk, arriving there on the f ...
See also:USS Arizona BB-39, USS Arizona BB-39 - Construction, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1910s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1920s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1930s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1940s, USS Arizona BB-39 - December 7 1941, USS Arizona BB-39 - Memorial, USS Arizona BB-39 - External link Read more here: » USS Arizona BB-39: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - 1910s |
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - Memorial The wreck of Arizona remains at Pearl Harbor, a memorial to the men of her crew lost that December morning in 1941. On March 7, 1950, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet at that time, instituted the raising of colors over her remains; and legislation during the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy designated the wreck a national shrine on May 30, 1962. A memorial was built across the ship's sunken remains, including a shrine room listing the names of the lost crewmembers ...
See also:USS Arizona BB-39, USS Arizona BB-39 - Construction, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1910s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1920s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1930s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1940s, USS Arizona BB-39 - December 7 1941, USS Arizona BB-39 - Memorial, USS Arizona BB-39 - External link Read more here: » USS Arizona BB-39: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - Memorial |
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - 1930s A little over two weeks later, on March 19, President Herbert Hoover embarked on board the recently modernized battleship and sailed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, standing out to sea from Hampton Roads that day. Returning on March 29, Arizona disembarked the Chief Executive and his party at Hampton Roads, and then proceeded north to Rockland, Maine to run her post-modernization standardization trials. After a visit to Boston, the battleship dropped down to Norfolk, whence she sailed for San Pedro on August 1, assig ...
See also:USS Arizona BB-39, USS Arizona BB-39 - Construction, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1910s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1920s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1930s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1940s, USS Arizona BB-39 - December 7 1941, USS Arizona BB-39 - Memorial, USS Arizona BB-39 - External link Read more here: » USS Arizona BB-39: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - 1930s |
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia - Anthony Meyer Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer, Bt., (October 27, 1920 – December 24, 2004) was a British soldier, diplomat, and Conservative Party politician, best known for standing against Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership in 1989. He was passionately in favour of the European Union, and this and other policies led to him becoming increasingly marginalised in Thatcher's Conservative Party.
Meyer's Hamburg, Germany-born Jewish grandfather, Carl Frederick Meyer, migrated to Britain in the late 19th century, when he worked for the R ...
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia - Uncle Charlie Osborne Charles Nelson Osborne, (December 26th, 1890 - May 27, 1992), affectionately known as "Uncle Charlie," was a musician in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia. He was regionally famous from the time he was about 15 until his death at age 101 in 1992.
Charlie's unique style of playing the fiddle with his left hand, on a right-handed fiddle, made him notable through the south. He and his brother, Emmett Osborne, played on WOPI radio station in Bristol, Tennessee from the early 1920's until the early 1930's. They were contemporaries of country music founders Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and oc ...
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - 1940s Arizona's last fleet problem was XXI. At its conclusion, the United States Fleet was retained in Hawaiian waters, based at Pearl Harbor. She operated in the Hawaiian Operating Area until late that summer, when she returned to Long Beach, California, on September 30, 1940. She was then overhauled at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, into the following year. Her last flag change-of-command occurred on January 23, 1941, when Rear Admiral Willson was relieved as Commander, Battleshi ...
See also:USS Arizona BB-39, USS Arizona BB-39 - Construction, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1910s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1920s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1930s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1940s, USS Arizona BB-39 - December 7 1941, USS Arizona BB-39 - Memorial, USS Arizona BB-39 - External link Read more here: » USS Arizona BB-39: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - 1940s |
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia - Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966), was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world, Disney was the co-founder with his brother Roy O. Disney of Walt Disney Productions, the corporation now known as The Walt Disney Company.
Walt Disney is particularly noted for being a successful storyteller, a hands-on film producer, and a popular showman. He and his staff created a number of the world's mo ...
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - December 7 1941 Shortly before 08:00, Japanese aircraft from six fleet carriers struck the Pacific Fleet as it lay in port at Pearl Harbor, and—in the ensuing two attack waves—wrought devastation on the Battle Line and on air and military facilities defending Pearl Harbor.
On board Arizona, the ship's air raid alarm went off about 07:55, and the ship went to general quarters soon thereafter. Shortly after 08:00 a bomb dropped by a high-altitude Kate bomber from the Japanese carrier Kaga hit the side of the #4 turret and glanced off into the de ...
See also:USS Arizona BB-39, USS Arizona BB-39 - Construction, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1910s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1920s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1930s, USS Arizona BB-39 - 1940s, USS Arizona BB-39 - December 7 1941, USS Arizona BB-39 - Memorial, USS Arizona BB-39 - External link Read more here: » USS Arizona BB-39: Encyclopedia II - USS Arizona BB-39 - December 7 1941 |
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia II - Isoroku Yamamoto - Family background Yamamoto was born Isoroku Takano (高野 五十六 Takano Isoroku) in Nagaoka in Niigata. His father was Takano Sadayoshi (高野 貞吉 Takano Sadayoshi), a lower-ranking samurai of Nagaoka-han. "Isoroku" is an old Japanese term meaning "56"; the name referred to his father's age at Isoroku's birth.
In 1916, Isoroku was adopted into the Yamamoto family and took the Yamamoto name. It was a common practice for Japanese families lacking sons to adopt suitable young men in this fashion to carry on the family name. In 1918, Isoroku married a woman named Reiko with wh ...
See also:Isoroku Yamamoto, Isoroku Yamamoto - Family background, Isoroku Yamamoto - Early naval career, Isoroku Yamamoto - Preparing for war 1920s and 1930s, Isoroku Yamamoto - The attack on Pearl Harbor 1941, Isoroku Yamamoto - Six Months Of Running Wild December 1941 to May 1942, Isoroku Yamamoto - The Battle of Midway June 1942, Isoroku Yamamoto - Actions after Midway, Isoroku Yamamoto - Yamamoto's death, Isoroku Yamamoto - Operation Vengeance Read more here: » Isoroku Yamamoto: Encyclopedia II - Isoroku Yamamoto - Family background |
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| | | | 1920 - December: Encyclopedia II - Isoroku Yamamoto - Early naval career Yamamoto enrolled at the Naval Academy at Etajima, Hiroshima in 1901, graduating in 1904. In 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War, he saw action as an ensign on the cruiser Nisshin at the Battle of Tsushima against the Russian Baltic Fleet. At that engagement, he lost two fingers on his left hand (see picture on the right). After the war, served in various shipboard assignments for several years.
In 1911 he took the "B" course at the Naval Staff College, and later the "A" course in 1916 on an obvious track for higher command. He ...
See also:Isoroku Yamamoto, Isoroku Yamamoto - Family background, Isoroku Yamamoto - Early naval career, Isoroku Yamamoto - Preparing for war 1920s and 1930s, Isoroku Yamamoto - The attack on Pearl Harbor 1941, Isoroku Yamamoto - Six Months Of Running Wild December 1941 to May 1942, Isoroku Yamamoto - The Battle of Midway June 1942, Isoroku Yamamoto - Actions after Midway, Isoroku Yamamoto - Yamamoto's death, Isoroku Yamamoto - Operation Vengeance Read more here: » Isoroku Yamamoto: Encyclopedia II - Isoroku Yamamoto - Early naval career |
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