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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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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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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1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America and in Australia as the "Roaring Twenties" . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. See 1920s Berlin. 1920s - Events and trends. 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 d ...

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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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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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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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See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature. 1919 in literature - Events. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is published. 1919 in literature - New books. The American Language - H. L. Mencken Caesar or Nothing - Pio Baroja Demian - Hermann Hesse Fields of Victory - Mary Augusta Ward The Forerunners - Romain RollandIncluding:

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Bloody Sunday can refer to any of the following historical events (in chronological order): Bloody Sunday (1887), violence in London on 13 November 1887. Bloody Sunday (1900), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War on 18 February 1900. Bloody Sunday (1905), massacre in Saint Petersburg on 22 January 1905. Bloody Sunday (1913), violence in Dublin on 31 August 1913 during the Dublin Lockout Bloody Sunday (1920), violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920. Bromberg Bloody Sun ...

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Acute stress reaction is a psychological condition arising in response to a terrifying event. "Acute Stress Response", was first described by Walter Cannon in the 1920s as a theory that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system. The response was later recognized as the first stage of a general adaptation syndrome that regulates stress responses among vertebrates and other organisms. The onset of a stress response is associated with specific physiological actions in the sympatheti ...

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See also: 1920 in literature, other events of 1921, 1922 in literature, list of years in literature. 1921 in literature - Events. Jorge Luis Borges returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe. 1921 in literature - New books. Nets to Catch the Wind - Elinor Wylie Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington The Black Moth – Georgette Heyer The Byzantine r ...

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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 20s BC - 10s BC - 0s BC - 0s - 10s - 20s - 30s - 40s - 50s - 60s - 70s Years: 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Sometimes the '20s is used as shorthand for the 1920s, the 1820s, or other such decades in various centuries 20s - Events and trends. 20s - Significant people. Tiberius, Roman Emperor (14 - 37). Category: 20s< ...

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1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s - Events and trends. The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation ...

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The Australian Open is one of the principal annual golf tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia. The event was first played in 1904 and currently takes place each November. It is one of the "national opens" which have a special status in the Official World Golf Rankings's points system, with a minimum level of points guaranteed for the winner regardless of the strength of the field. The winner of the tournament receives the Kirkwood Cup, named for the 1920 winner Joe Kirkwood, Sr. who is acknowledged as having put Aus ...

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See also: 1926 in film 1927 1928 in film 1920s in film years in film film 1927 in film - Events. January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres. April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda. May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928. October 6 - The Jazz Singer, starring A ...

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See also: 1918 in sports, other events of 1919, 1920 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. 1919 in sports - Baseball Major League. Babe Ruth hits 29 home runs for the Boston Red Sox, breaking the single-season record of 27, set by Ned Williamson in 1884. In the World Series, the Cincinnati Reds upset the Chicago White Sox 5-3. Rumors are rife even during the Series that members of the White Sox team have taken bribes to throw the Series to the Reds. This will explode a year ...

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1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1930s - Events and trends. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism,dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the l ...

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